Flutterby™! : West Linn police corruption

West Linn police corruption

2020-02-14 16:38:44.717944+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

‘Old-boy-style racism’ by small-town cops leads to $600,000 payout to Portland man

“This case vividly illustrates a ready willingness on the part of the West Linn police to abuse the enormous power they have been given, and a casual, jocular, old-boy-style racism of the kind that we Oregonians tend to want to associate with the Deep South rather than our own institutions,” Buchanan said.

That settlement isn't enough, and isn't coming from the right people.

[ related topics: Law Law Enforcement Race ]

comments in ascending chronological order (reverse):

#Comment Re: West Linn police corruption made: 2020-02-15 12:46:30.401829+00 by: DaveP

I’d read elsewhere that Oregon was one of the more racist places in the country, but don’t recall where I saw it. Seems this is another bit of anecdata for that conclusion.

#Comment Re: West Linn police corruption made: 2020-02-20 05:13:46.776265+00 by: spc476

Portland, Oregon has more white people than Salt Lake City, Utah.

Add your own comment:

(If anyone ever actually uses Webmention/indie-action to post here, please email me)

Format with:

(You should probably use "Text" mode: URLs will be mostly recognized and linked, _underscore quoted_ text is looked up in a glossary, _underscore quoted_ (http://xyz.pdq) becomes a link, without the link in the parenthesis it becomes a <cite> tag. All <cite>ed text will point to the Flutterby knowledge base. Two enters (ie: a blank line) gets you a new paragraph, special treatment for paragraphs that are manually indented or start with "#" (as in "#include" or "#!/usr/bin/perl"), "/* " or ">" (as in a quoted message) or look like lists, or within a paragraph you can use a number of HTML tags:

p, img, br, hr, a, sub, sup, tt, i, b, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, cite, em, strong, code, samp, kbd, pre, blockquote, address, ol, dl, ul, dt, dd, li, dir, menu, table, tr, td, th

Comment policy

We will not edit your comments. However, we may delete your comments, or cause them to be hidden behind another link, if we feel they detract from the conversation. Commercial plugs are fine, if they are relevant to the conversation, and if you don't try to pretend to be a consumer. Annoying endorsements will be deleted if you're lucky, if you're not a whole bunch of people smarter and more articulate than you will ridicule you, and we will leave such ridicule in place.

Flutterby™ is a trademark claimed by

Dan Lyke

for the web publications at www.flutterby.com and www.flutterby.net.