May 2008 - Portland Mercury

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The Rap Sheet
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Volume 39
Number 5
by President Robert J. King
May, 2008
The Portland Police Association • Maintaining the vigil since 1942
Stop data
proves
nothing
“Municipal Mother”
honored at Portland State
by K.C. Piccard-Krone
The Bureau began collecting data from stops in early
2000. They skipped several years and began again in
2004, 2005 and 2006.
In 2001 the Bureau had a “Blue Ribbon Panel on Race
Profiling.” There were no other meetings of any kind on
the topic until a year ago when the Mayor pulled a “race
profiling” committee together. You all remember our
Mayor showing his bias saying, “it smacks of racism.”
I have been going to committee meetings for a year
because I know we are not “profiling.” I have attended
because a group of citizens are talking about us and that
concerns me. They will likely propose some change that
will not be good for anyone of us as police.
The basic argument has been that because there is an
8% African American population in Portland, and because we stop for example 13-14 % African American
consistently, a disparity exists between residential population and the actual number of people stopped. Therefore we must be “profiling.” People who say we “profile”
also share their anecdotal experience. Individual experience is not science. Because people refer to the data as
evidence, and we know data is just data, the Union hired
an expert to analyze the data.
Dr. Brian Withrow, a professor at Wichita State University, analyzed our data and indicated the Police Bureau
data cannot prove the allegation of “race profiling.” In
fact there is data that supports the opposite position,
that profiling does not happen in Portland. I am disappointed no one in the City or Bureau has taken the time
to analyze this data, but I am glad we did.
Dr. Withrow reduced the complexity of the issue to a
basic premise. At anytime there are a certain number
of drivers on the road in Portland and we cannot scientifically know that number. Of those drivers we cannot
know the race, we just cannot know that. But people
who allege “profiling” do not take these two facts into
account and they leap to the position that our motivation
is biased. There is evidence
Continued on page 11
One hundred years to the date of her swearing-in ceremony at Portland City Hall, the trailblazing accomplishments of Lola Greene Baldwin, America’s First
Policewoman, were honored at a special April 1, 2008
ceremony held by the Friends of History at Portland
State University.
The Centennial Celebration was developed by Baldwin
biographer Gloria E. Myers
and the Friends of History to
honor Baldwin who in 1908 put
Portland on the map for equal
rights when her hiring as a municipally paid “female detective”
made her the first professional
policewoman in the country.
Baldwin then used her influence
and visibility to help plant the
seeds for the hiring of the first
female law enforcement officers
in Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver, British Columbia.
To honor Lola Baldwin’s lifelong crusade against vice and
her work at rehabilitating runaways and prostitutes, Mayor
Tom Potter issued a proclamation that was read at the event,
stating that “April 1, 2008 be
declared Lola Greene Baldwin
Centennial Day in Portland and
the nation.”
The audience, which included
students, Portland history buffs
and entire families, applauded
as the final words of his proclamation rang through the meeting hall.
At the reception held before the event which current
Portland Police Chief Rosie
Sizer briefly
visited, the
audience was
able to meet
with Lola’s
grandchildren
who were in
attendance,
and browse
through exhibits by event
co-sponsors.
The Portland Police
Museum’s exhibit included
portraits of
Lola Baldwin,
and other firsts
for women in
uniform; and
an exhibit of
Crime Detection techniques
used in the Old West was displayed by Wells Fargo History
Museum.
PSU alum Gloria Myers
(M.A., History) was the focus of
the presentation at the event as
she recreated Lola’s voice while
donning a white haired wig and
blue Edwardian-style dress as
in this issue:
she (Lola) recounted her swearing-in ceremony, her work for
women’s’ rights and read from
Lola’s last report to the Portland
City Council on the day that she
retired from service.
Gloria wrote the definitive book on Lola Baldwin
Photo courtesy of Portland Police Historical Society
President’s
Message
ABOVE: Hired by Portland Police
in 1908, Lola Greene Baldwin
became the first professional
policewoman in America.
back in 1995 -- A Municipal
Mother: Portland’s Lola Baldwin,
America’s First Policewoman an
in-depth examination of the
Continued on page 6
Memorial Photos
p.8
Editor’s Statement
p.2
National Police Week
p.10
Treasurer’s Report
p.4
Lessons Learned
p.13
Golf Scramble
p.4
July in the Steens
p.18
Let’s Talk
p.5
Profanity as “Judo”
p.20
Editor’s
Statement
by Detective Peter Simpson
Tactical Operations Division
Resist arrest
story was
tabloid
quality
On April 10, The Oregonian
published a story titled, “The
heavy hand of the law,” written
by reporter Aimee (pronounced
“I-me”) Green. The story is a
profile of a small number of
resist arrest cases that go to
trial resulting in an acquittal.
The full story can be access at
OregonLive.com.
Ms. Green chose to focus on
the a few of the 38 cases that
resulted in acquittals and did
not spend any ink on the more
than 500 hundred cases that
resulted in either a guilty plea
or a conviction.
Quoting several defendants,
jurors and defense attorneys, Ms.
Green paints a picture that officers routinely trump up charges
on people to cover their asses.
What Ms. Green fails to do
is cover the entire story and
chooses to write a very slanted
piece of garbage. It’s so bad in
fact that the Chief of Police
declined to be interviewed for
the story … twice.
The bottom line is that the
story is just stupid. It proves
nothing and it means nothing.
Had Ms. Green done just a
little bit of work trying to be
fair and balanced, she likely
would have found jurors that
have a hard time convicting
someone of resisting arrest for
this reason: Some people believe
that bad guys will resist police
officers and unless it’s a major
scrum, it’s just the price of doing business.
Not only do jurors feel that
way, a whole lot of police officers do too. I’d guess that at
least twice as many people could
be charged with resist if we
really wanted to but it’s often
reserved for those who really
put up a fight.
The second thing that Ms.
Green might have found out is
that both resist and disorderly
conduct cases are very, very
subjective in the eyes of the
average person and a good number of them go to trial because
the defense attorneys are good
at painting officers as overzealous and just looking to find a
charge for the defendant.
The worst part about this
story is that it’s yet another
shot at the integrity of Portland
Police officers and it serves no
purpose to anyone.
I’d like to believe that the editors at The Oregonian will take
a long hard look at Ms. Green’s
tabloid-quality journalism and
be critical of the message it
sends. The tone of the papers
headlines and some of its stories have become on par with
The Star and The Enquirer. Pretty
sad for the only daily paper in
the city.
The “Police Family”
I’m a second generation
officer with the Bureau and as
such, I’ve essentially grown up
in cop land. As far back as I can
remember, I’ve been around
Portland cops. When I got
hired, I had the good fortune of
working around and with some
of the cops my dad worked with
and was fortunate to learn a lot
of lessons from these veterans.
Off the job, I got to know a lot
of these officers and loved hearing the war stories from as far
back as the fifties. Some of those
stories made me appreciate the
sacrifices those guys made to be
police officers. They weren’t paid
very well, they had to moonlight
to make ends meet, and they
fought wars and returned to
walk the streets of Portland as
Portland Police officers.
I knew about the “police
family” well before I became or
thought of becoming a cop. It
was just the way I grew up.
Sometimes I think people
don’t take the time to get to
know the people that have done
this job before them and don’t
take the time to recognize the
greatness of many of these
heroes. For some, it’s that they
don’t care to invest in the “police
family” at all. For most though,
it’s the busy nature of our work
and our lives outside of work.
I started thinking about this
after a good friend died recently.
Gordon Morgan passed away on
March 30th and was one of those
great “police family” members.
Gordon served in the Marine
Corps during World War II on
Guadalcanal where he was injured by machine gun fire. After
his discharge from the Corps, he
Continued on page 3
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James Fleming,
former Rap Sheet editor
December, 1970, Vol I, Issue I
Volume 39
Number 5
May, 2008
Portland Police
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Editor Detective Peter Simpson
President
Detective Robert King
SecretaryTreasurer
Sergeant Mitch Copp
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the Rap Sheet | May, 2008
Feeling
stressed? Free
help available.
by Sergeant Kim Keist
Employee Assistance Program
The Portland Police Bureau
Employee Assistance Office and
contract Mental Health Providers
are here to serve you. Did you
know that all Portland Police Bureau Employees, sworn and non
sworn along with their spouse,
partner and children under the
age of eighteen are entitled
to receive six free visits with
a Mental Health Clinician, per
issue, per year? You are only a
phone call away from receiving
help for compound job stress,
marriage counseling, understanding your teens, addiction
issues, or any other issue that
life throws at you. Please take
advantage of our system. It has
helped so many of our fellow
officers and their families gain
a better perspective and heal
wounds that are often created
by our unique job environment.
Our contract Mental Health
Provider Network is managed by
United Behavioral Health, Optum Health (UBH, OH). You just
call 1-800-538-2304 to receive
authorization and referral to a
mental health clinician within
their network. You can also look
up network clinician information
on their website www.liveandworkwell.com. Call the EAP
office at 503-823-0091 for access code information. You can
also find the information posted
on the Police Bureau intranet
web site under Personnel, EAP,
Mental Health Providers.
United Behavioral Health, Optum
Health will refer you to a clinician,
depending on your needs, or you
may choose a clinician from their
network. After receiving authorization you will make an appointment with the chosen clinician.
There is also a list of clinicians
posted on the intranet that are
frequently used by officers. Most
of these clinicians are not part
of the of UBH, OH network. If
you are a sworn member and
the issue is work related you are
authorized to utilize this preferred
provider list of clinicians. There
is a slight difference in receiving
UBH, OH authorization to utilize
the out of network clinicians. Call
the same 1-800 number and ask
to speak to the Portland Office.
Identify yourself as a Portland
Police Officer; indicate that the
issue is job related and that you
want to utilize a clinician from the
Portland Police only clinician list.
Remember you must be a sworn
officer and the issue must be job
related to utilize the clinicians
that are out of network.
Maybe you don’t think you need
professional help but just need
someone to talk to. Our PEER
support personnel and Chaplains
are always available. They are
trained listeners and provide a
safe and confidential environment for you. The PEER support
and Chaplain rosters are posted
on the intranet.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Portland Police
Memorial Day
The 2008 Police Memorial Ceremony will be held
at the Portland Police memorial Wall at Waterfront Park
on Tuesday, May 13, at 12:00 noon.
Portland’s Police Memorial Day is part of National Police Week, May 11-17, 2008
Don’t be afraid to get help. Give
counseling a try. You spend your
time at work helping others,
so let a professional counselor,
chaplain or PEER support person
lend you a hand. You want you to
remain healthy and on the job.
Remember you are worth fighting for.
Continued from page 2
began his career as a Portland
Police officer, wearing his Marine Corps uniform for the first
three days on patrol because
the city hadn’t purchased him a
police uniform.
After his retirement from the
Bureau, Gordon was never far
from his “police family”. He was a
regular at retirements, banquets,
picnics, and memorial ceremonies.
If you didn’t have the good fortune to know Gordon, you really
missed out. Last fall at the Annual
Detective Division Dinner, a fellow detective came up to me and
asked if I’d met this fellow named
Gordon Morgan. This detective
raved about the stories Gordon
told and what a great guy he was
and I told him that I’d known
Gordy my whole life and yes, he
was a great guy and a legend.
My point to this is that there
are dozens of other guys and gals
out there that have similar stories
to Gordon and you meet these
people at retirements, banquets,
picnics and memorial ceremonies.
Nobody is able to make it to
all these events. I get to about
five or six a year really, but it
doesn’t take too many to meet a
few really neat cops that paved
the road for all of us.
Make a point this year to hit
some of these events. Start with
the Police Memorial on Tuesday
May 13th at the West end of
the Hawthorne Bridge. Then go
to the PPA Picnic on Saturday
August 2nd.
Make a point to get to know
some of the living history of
your “police family.”
Be safe.
read us online at www.ppavigil.org
Portland Police Memorial Ceremony Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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Treasurer’s
Report
by Sergeant Mitch Copp
Secretary-Treasurer
Support for
Zylawy family
greatly appreciated
The outpouring of support
for Mark Zylawy’s family over
the past few months has been
overwhelming. Both Mark’s
family and the PPA sincerely appreciate the many donors who
generously provided assistance
during this difficult time. In
this Rap Sheet issue a letter of
appreciation on behalf of the
family has been included, and
I’d also like to acknowledge all
of those who gave so much,
financially and emotionally.
Most of Mark’s family members lived out of state (Montana, Texas, North Carolina),
and the Officer Assistance Fund
paid for all or a portion of their
travel expenses. The OAF is
supported primarily by the annual PPA Golf Scramble. Mark’s
mother, father, brothers, sister,
aunts, uncles and cousins wrote
to the PPA to thank all of those
who helped pay for their travel
expenses. Mark’s brother Roman summarized the sentiment
of the family when he wrote
“Thank you so very much for
doing so much to ease the pain
and make our dark days a little
less dark”. Special thanks to
Detective Jim McCausland, the
PPA Detective Vice-President.
Jim quickly rallied support
among PPB detectives, and the
Division made a large contribution to the OAF to be used for
travel expenses. Thanks also
to PPA VP’s Ryan Coffey and
Bob Foesch, who coordinated
donations from Central precinct, resulting in numerous
contributions. To all of you who
contributed to the OAF from
various precincts and divisions,
Thank You.
Shortly after Mark’s death,
the PPA established the Mark
Zylawy Memorial Fund at
Advantis Credit Union. Separate from the OAF, this fund
provides financial assistance
directly to Mark’s wife and children. The PPA received many
donations that were transferred to this fund. The donors
included officers, police retirees, deputy district attorneys
and citizens, as well as several
police labor organizations. The
Oregon City Police Employees
Association, the Vancouver
Police Guild, the Battleground
Police Association, the Lower
Columbia Fraternal Order of
Police and the Multnomah
County Sheriffs Office Management Association all made
large contributions.
Digital Stitch LLC, a company owned by traffic officers
Darke Hull and Joe Goodrich,
made an impressive $7000.00
donation to this fund. Their
donation came as a result of
proceeds raised through the sale
of clothing that honored Mark.
Thanks to Darke, Joe and all
who purchased “Z” apparel.
Again, to all of you who gave
so much, to both funds, thank
you.
Letters
Gratitude to those who shared in the grief,
and gave generously of themselves
Dear Sgt. Copp:
In many ways, we wish that we did not have to send you this letter
of gratitude. The tragedy of our beloved Mark Zylawy’s accidental
death will weigh us down for the rest of our lives, and we would
willingly trade all of the generosity and fellowship and glorious support to have Mark back here among us. Nevertheless, the accident
happened, Mark is gone, and we cannot thank you enough for that
generosity, that fellowship, and that support, which has provided
comfort to Mark’s family and friends during these dark times.
The heartfelt contribution of every Portland Police Department
member with whom we have come in contact has been truly
remarkable, perhaps even miraculous. This letter is intended to
express our thanks, our appreciation, our deepest gratitude to
each and every one of the officers and staff, but words fail us; they
are not enough to convey what we feel for all of you. Mark loved
the Department and his work absolutely without qualification, and
that love has come back to us a thousand times over. The people in
your organization are simply amazing.
Please share this letter with your colleagues. We have thanked
some individuals individually as we have come into contact with
them, and as they have given of themselves in our time of need.
However, we are well aware that many, many people in the Department have shared in our grief and have given generously of themselves in ways both seen and unseen. To all of those individuals,
this letter is addressed. Thank you, thank you, thank you from the
bottom of our hearts.
Sincerely,
Patti Zylawy
Pam and Mark Donegan
Monday, August 25, 2008
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Let’s
Talk
by Officer Daryl Turner
Central Precinct
Use of Force
and Central
Precinct
Within the past few months
there have been a chain of
events leading up to the final
version of Chief Sizer’s new Use
of Force policy being instituted.
First of all, every member
was required to attend PVO
training. During the first hour
of that training, either Assistant
Chief Martinek or Assistant
Chief Berg, along with one of
the City Attorneys, detailed a
draft of the new Use of Force
policy going into lengthy detail
as to why this policy would be
better than the old policy. The
City Attorney also delivered a
long lesson on the history of use
of force policies and standards
dating back to the 1800’s.
Although I pride myself as
a bit of an expert on American
history, I found that part of the
presentation to be just filler
with not much substance. And
in reading the drafts that were
handed out, I couldn’t see where
the “Graham” standards for the
use of force policies gave us any
advantages over the current Use
of Force policy that we had at
the time.
I, along with many other
members, walked away from
that presentation even more
strongly opposed to the new
Use of Force policy than before.
Sometime after that, statistics on individual member’s
percentages of use of force were
sent to the precincts at the direction of the Chief’s Office.
The Command Staff and
supervisors at Central Precinct
looked at these statistics and
found that the percentages were
significantly out of proportion
and that a number of factors
were not taken into consideration. Some of the sergeants and
lieutenants at Central Precinct
worked on adding in several
relevant factors. When these
new factors were added in, most
of the officers’ targeted, percentages went down drastically.
Even with all the new information, the Chief’s Office
directed the Command Staff
at Central Precinct to talk to
a number of officers regard-
ing the 15th Floor’s concerns
regarding their percentages of
use of force.
Now here’s where things
start to become unclear, at
least to me. First of all, I want
to say that the Command Staff
and supervisors at Central
Precinct did everything they
could to accurately justify each
officer’s percentage of use of
force through documentation
from reports and eyewitness
accounts. However, they were
still instructed to conduct interviews of the targeted officers.
After the interviews were
started, it was brought to my
attention that at the direction of the Chief’s Office these
interviews were not considered
counseling. Even though there
were concerns about an officer’s work performance (use
of force percentages) at the
Chief’s Office level, though
Central Precinct supervisors
and lieutenants were instructed
by the Chief’s Office to generate
memos that would go into the
officer’s Employee Information
System (EIS) file, and though
results of these interviews could
be used at a later date if there
were continuous concerns about
an officer’s use of force numbers
as a consideration regarding discipline, this was not considered
counseling by the Chief’s Office.
Therefore, union representation
was not offered as an option to
the targeted officers.
After I spoke to a couple of officers that had been interviewed,
I advised the other officers on
the list that they should have a
union representative with them,
not because I didn’t trust the
Central Precinct supervisors, but
because even though this wasn’t
called counseling by the Chief’s
Office, if it walks like, talks like
and looks like a duck ... well, you
know the rest.
A memo was sent out by
the Union Office stating that
members should take a union
representative with them when
being talked to regarding their
use of force statistics. I accompanied officers on a couple of
occasions at these interviews
and the lieutenant conducting
the interviews did an excellent
job explaining to the members
why the interviews were being
conducted.
I, along with John Grable and
Jason Lobaugh, attended the
next Executive Board meeting
to talk to the EBoard about the
problems with the proposed
new Use of Force policy as it was
explained to us at PVO training.
I asked the E-Board to allow the
members to have a voice in how
they should approach the Chief
on whether or not we support
this new Use of Force policy.
We also found out that
on that same day one of our
members, an officer at Central
Precinct, was told that he was
being transferred to another
precinct because of concerns
about his use of force statistics
documented in his Employee
Information System (EIS) file.
This officer was also interviewed
without a union representative
present and, as far as I know,
this officer did not have the
highest use of force percentage
on the Portland Police Bureau.
Oh, by the way, this was not
considered discipline because
the Chief’s Office has the right
to transfer anyone for the benefit of the Bureau. I’m sure the
officer was told that there were
other mitigating factors that
were considered in making the
decision to transfer him.
The backlash of Chief Sizer’s
decision hit officers at Central
Precinct and officers Bureauwide like a ton of bricks. Adding
insult to injury, rubbing salt
into old wounds, a slap in the
face, call it what you like. Officers and supervisors were
upset, distraught, and discouraged, to say the least, regarding the Chief’s decision. The
repercussions of the officers’
reactions to this decision were
so great that the Chief’s Office had to retreat from that
decision immediately! You, the
members, made a difference.
Your reaction to this situation
was heard, seen, and felt all the
way up to the 15th Floor. It’s
sad that it took that much of
a reaction to get their attention, but it’s good to see what
a united membership can do
when being tested.
Since then, the PPA Executive Board voted to have the
members weigh-in on whether
or not they support Chief
Sizer’s new Use of Force policy.
The PPA Executive Board itself
has voted not to support the
Chief’s new Use of Force policy.
A survey sent out to all of
our members showed that approximately 75% of members
who completed the survey do
not support the Chief’s new
Use of Force policy, while approximately 25% of those do.
However, I trust and honestly
believe that an even larger percentage of the membership is
opposed to the policy and that
if every member completed the
survey, 80-90% of the members
would not have supported this
new policy.
So what now? Chief Sizer has
instituted the new Use of Force
policy and we, as a membership,
will adhere to it to the letter.
The PPA Executive Board and
our attorney, Will Aitchison,
are exploring avenues to assure
that our members are protected
from the negative affects of this
new Use of Force policy so that
in the future one of us does not
become the sacrificial lamb for
the City of Portland, cop haters,
or, even worse, the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
who has supported and represented cop killers during their
long existence.
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100 years after his
death, Officer Samuel
Young’s name added to
national memorial
Portland’s history, working
during the City’s infamous
“Police Commission” years. His
name disappeared from Bureau
payroll records in 1896 when
newly elected mayor, Sylvestor
Pennyroyal, replaced the entire
police force, police commission
and police chief. His successor,
William S. Mason, did the same
in 1898 adding the janitor and
matron to the list.
“Policeman Young was one of the best and oldest members of the Portland police department … during all
his years of service he was not known to break a rule
of the department.”
Samuel Smyth Young was
survived by his wife, two
daughters, and a son. Young’s
daughters, both school teachers in their early 30’s, remained
at home with their parents.
Young’s 24 year-old son, Albert,
lived in Wheatland, California.
by Liza Dormady
Portland Police Museum
The Oregonian, September 25, 1908
It was 10:30 pm on September 23, 1908, and on-duty
Officer Samuel Smyth Young
stood warming himself by the
stove of a saloon on SE 19th
and Umatilla. The owner of the
saloon, W.S. Wood, was adjusting the damper the stove when
the back door to the saloon suddenly opened about a foot and
then quickly closed shut. Wood
rose to investigate and the door
swung wide open. A masked
man entered holding a revolver
straight out in front of him.
Upon seeing Officer Young the
man ordered, “Throw up your
hands. Now I’ve got you. You
come to me.”
Young walked toward the
masked man, but did not put
up his hands. The assailant fired
his revolver three times and
Young fell to the floor, mortally
wounded.
The Journal reported, “The
Youngs had just moved into a
handsome new home at E. 9th
and Broadway and Mr. Young
was occupied with his garden
and in getting his family settled
into the new house.”
Samuel Young was born
in Ireland. He later moved to
Australia with his wife, Mary,
for the opportunity the mining business provided. Young
did very well financially for a
time, but fortunes reversed
themselves and Young moved
his family to Portland, Oregon
in 1884, joining the police force
in 1885.
Unfortunately for the
Young’s family, Portland Police
members and the community,
the murderer of Samuel Young
would never be discovered.
Although the masked assailant had abandoned his mask
and hat a block away from the
saloon and bloodhounds were
called out to trace his tracks, the
trail ended cold at a trolley car
line. Wood was the only other
person in the saloon when the
shooting occurred and at that
late hour, the few witnesses that
were found only saw a rough
image of a small man.
There was much speculation
as to whether the shooting was
a botched robbery or a case of
revenge against an officer who
was reputedly well-known, wellliked, and respected.
Inspecting Young’s body at
the scene, Detectives found his
duty weapon missing, adding
another element of mystery
to the case. Young’s daughter,
Emily, provided an answer telling Detectives it was the first
time she could recall her father
forgetting his revolver at home.
She followed this by saying
Young had forgotten his club
one day several weeks before.
He was believed to be 67
years of age at the time of his
death, with at least 17 years
experience as a police officer. It
was not uncommon at the turn
of the century for an officer to
continue working into his later
years.
Young had seen some of
the most dramatic times in
A One-hundred years later
Samuel S. Young is receiving
recognition nationally. During
2008’s National Police Week,
his name will be engraved on
the National Law Enforcement
Officers Memorial in Washington, DC, formally adding him to
the national list off law enforcement officers killed in the line
of duty.
If you cannot attend the
ceremony in DC, you are invited
to give tribute to Officer Young
and the other Portland police
officers at the Waterfront Memorial on Tuesday, May 13, at
noon.
Officer Young has been
honored on the Portland Police
Memorial Wall since 1997.
life and achievements
of Baldwin, which actually started out as Myers’
graduate thesis.
At the time she started
her work on Baldwin,
Myers knew that the L.A.
Police department was
claiming that their first
policewoman, hired in
1910, held the title of
America’s First Policewoman. Through her
extensive research in the
Portland archives, the
Portland Police Museum,
Multnomah County
Library and newspaper
archives and the Oregon
Historical Society Library;
Myers proved beyond a
shadow of doubt that the
title and the glory rightfully
belong to Lola Baldwin and the
City of Portland.
This program marks the
beginning of a year of programs
and events that will celebrate
Lola Baldwin and the Century
of the American Policewoman.
Oregon Public Broadcasting will
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Photo courtesy of Portland Police Historical Society
be broadcasting a special on
“Lola Baldwin: America’s First
Policewoman” on Thursday May
15 at 9:00pm as part of their
“American Experience” series.
Gloria Myers will be speaking to
various groups about the legacy
of Lola Baldwin and the history
of law enforcement throughout
the year.
The PSU Friends of History
will be using their influence
and contacts to ensure that
Lola’s name will be prominently
displayed in the newly launched
Oregon Encyclopedia, the
National Women’s Hall of Fame,
and Who Was Who in American History and commemorative services will be held at her
gravesite on the anniversary of
her death.
LEFT: Lola Baldwin (middle),
Grace Fix (top), and Dagmar Riley
(bottom) in 1905 - the year of the
Lewis and Clark Exposition in
Portland.
K.C. Piccard-Krone is the President
of the Friends of History at Portland
State University and has previously
produced a radio show in Southern
California for a non-profit organization where her frequent on-air guests
included the spokesman for the California Highway Patrol, Superior Court
Judge David O. Carter, and representatives of the Orange County (CA)
Sheriff ’s Office. She can be reached at
[email protected].
Line of duty deaths
increase more than
25 percent in 2007
Officer fatalities rose more than 28 percent to the
second highest total in nearly two decades.
It has been a deadly year for law enforcement in the
United States, with 186 officers killed nationwide as
of December 26, according to preliminary statistics
from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) and Concerns of Police Survivors
(C.O.P.S.).
When compared with 2006,
when 145 officers died, officer fatalities rose more than
28 percent this year. Outside
of 2001, when 239 officers
died—72 in the 9/11 terrorist
attacks—2007 is the deadliest
year for American law enforcement since 1989.
The number of officers killed
by gunfire and in traffic-related
incidents both increased in
2007, the latter reaching a
record high of 81. So far this
year, 69 officers have been shot
and killed, up 33 percent from
2006, when there were 52 fatal
shootings.
Six times this year, two or
more officers were gunned
down in the same incident,
including a shooting that killed
three Odessa (TX) Police officers
in early September.
“In 2007, our nation’s law
enforcement officers were
confronted with more brazen,
heavily armed and cold-blooded
criminals than they have faced
in many years,” said Craig W.
Floyd, Chairman and CEO of
the NLEOMF, a non-profit
organization that researches
officer fatalities and maintains
Officers Memorial in Washington, DC.
“Even in the face of incredible danger, our men and women
in blue displayed remarkable
bravery in working to protect
the rest of us. As this tragic year
comes to a close, every American owes our law enforcement
officers an incredible measure of
gratitude,” Floyd added.
Law enforcement officers
killed in traffic-related incidents
also increased, from 73 in 2006
to a new high of 81 this year.
The previous high was 78 in
2000. This is the 10th year in
a row in which traffic-related
incidents were the leading cause
of officer deaths nationwide.
Of the 81 traffic-related deaths
this year, 60 officers died in
automobile crashes and six in
motorcycle crashes, and 15 were
struck by automobiles while
outside their own vehicles.
Among other causes of
deaths, 18 officers died from
physical causes, primarily heart
attacks, four drowned, three fell
to their deaths, and two were
killed by falling objects. Three
officers died in aircraft accidents, and one was killed in a
boating accident.
“The surviving families of
these fallen officers will be
struggling for many months
trying to adjust to life without
their officer,” said Jean Hill,
National President of C.O.P.S.,
which provides resources to
assist in rebuilding the lives of
surviving families of officers
killed in the line of duty.
“There will be hundreds more
survivors needing our services
due to the increased numbers
of deaths, and C.O.P.S. will need
to increase its efforts to assist
these families. We will strive
to reach our mission for these
families and help them rebuild
their shattered lives. And that
support from C.O.P.S. will be
there for the families for as long
as they need our support,” Hill
continued.
Other findings in the report
include the following:
Forty-one states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico,
and the U.S. Virgin Islands
experienced officer fatalities
during 2007. Texas, with 22,
from PoliceMag.com
had the most officer deaths,
followed by Florida (16), New
York (12), California (11) and
Louisiana (9).
Seventeen federal law
enforcement officers died this
year, including five special
agents of the Air Force Office of
Special Investigations who were
killed in Iraq.
The officers killed in 2007
ranged in age from 19 to 76; the
average age was 39. The officers
had an average of 11.4 years
in law enforcement. Seven of
the officers killed in 2007 were
women.
Handguns were used in the
vast majority of fatal officer
shootings (51). Shotguns were
used in eight officer killings and
rifles in nine others, including
September’s fatal shooting of
Miami-Dade (FL) Police Officer
Jose Somohano with an assault
weapon.
Portland police officers; thank you for what you do every day.
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Attorney at Law
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Approximately 40 percent of
the officers who died in 2007
were killed in felonious attacks;
the other 60 percent died from
accidental causes. Up until the
late 1990s, more officers died
in felonious attacks than accidents.
Alcohol was a contributing
factor in 21 of this year’s officer
fatalities, up from 17 in 2006;
illegal drugs played a role in 21
deaths, up from 11 in 2006.
buying a home into reality.
Julie Aitchison
Beth Mulvihill
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After peaking at 277 in 1974,
officer fatalities have generally
declined over the past three decades, with the exception of the
increase in 2001. The annual average number of officers killed
was 228 in the 1970’s, 190 in
the 1980’s, 160 in the 1990’s,
and 167 from 2000-2006.
The statistics released by
the NLEOMF and C.O.P.S. are
preliminary data and do not
represent a final or complete list
of individual officers who will
be added to the National Law
Enforcement Officers Memorial
in 2008.
The preliminary report, “Law
Enforcement Officer Deaths,
2007,” is available at www.
nleomf.org. For more information about C.O.P.S., visit www.
nationalcops.org.
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Commemorating those Portland
lives in the performance of their
Thomas G.
O’Conner
Samuel S. Young Albert W. Moe
September 23, 1908
Gunshot
January 9, 1914
Gunshot
James R. White
Ralph H. Stahl
Robert E. Drake Charles M.
October 11, 1930
White
Phillip R.
Johnson
Charles E.
Vincent
James A. Hines
Roy E. Mizner
Robert R.
Ferron
Dennis A.
Darden
David W.
Crowther
Stanley D.
Pounds
Thomas L.
Jeffries
August 8, 1867
Gunshot
Killed in a fall
May 23, 1964
Vehicle accident
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Charles F.
Schoppe
June 13, 1874
Gunshot
June 30, 1934
Blow to stomach
Stephen M.
Owens
September 23, 1973
Vehicle accident
May 9, 1941
Gunshot
August 9, 1974
Gunshot
March 22, 1942
Directing traffic
December 27, 1979
Gunshot
November 17, 1914
Directing traffic
November 4, 1945
Directing traffic
July 18, 1984
Vehicle accident
January 27, 1915
Gunshot
February 18, 1956
Vehicle accident
July 21, 1997
Gunshot
Police Officers who gave their
official duties. Never forget.
November 30, 1915
Gunshot
John J.
McCarthy
Vernon J.
Stroeder
Roger L. Davies Robert P.
April 18, 1961
Murray
February 18, 1956
Vehicle accident
Colleen A.
Waibel
January 27, 1998
Gunshot
July 21, 1916
Directing Traffic
Motorcycle accident
Kirk A.
Huffstetler
Jerome Palmer
November 17, 1920
Gunshot
May 2, 1962
Motorcycle accident
RIGHT: A thin blue
line hovers over the
ceremonies at 18th
Annual Candlelight
Vigil, where family members, law
enforcement officers,
and friends of law
enforcement gathered
at the National Law
Enforcement Officers
Memorial Fund to
respect, honor, and
remember fallen law
enforcement heroes.
Photo©2006 NLEOMF
James C. Gill
May 26, 2002
Vehicle accident
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The Brotherhood:
National Police Week –
Why should I go?
by Jim Donahue
Process Problem Solving Contributor
Is it really just spring break for cops?
I hold classes for cops across the country on the topics
of technology and tactics. As I finish the course material each time, I turn to the group and pose the question,
“Who has been to Washington D.C. for Police Week?”
Of a group of maybe 20, I
might see one or two hands.
Maybe none. “Who has heard of
Officers Memorial in D.C.?” I
continue. Thankfully, most of
them have. It is then that I try
to tell the story.
I must admit that explaining Police Week is like my wife
trying to share her experience
of child birth with me. She uses
words that I know (or can look
up). The words somehow always
fall short of making me feel
what she felt.
I know it’s the same in a
classroom with a group of cops.
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Words alone just don’t cut it.
Yet, I hope to touch a nerve or
strike a chord in the heart of
just one of those cops. I hope to
light a fire in the heart of just
one. Most of the time, the effort
succeeds. For that I am grateful.
What is Police Week like?
It starts with the preparations. I feel a spark inside as I
make the hotel reservations.
I talk to my past travel companions, confirming who will
be going each year. We always
reminisce about what we did in
years past (though carefully not
admitting to anything incrimi-
nating in front of our wives).
We wonder what this year will
bring - much like a starry-eyed
kids wonders what Santa will
bring for Christmas.
Having lived in Detroit until
last year, D.C. was within driving distance. We could make
it in 7+ hours by car (DON’T
ASK).
Now that I’m in Florida, I
suppose air will be the only
practical choice.
The trip there feels like
Christmas Eve Day did when
I was a kid. I am eager with
anticipation. It’s tough to sit
still. It’s almost impossible to
focus on any of the things my
wife or boss wants me to do. The
last time I felt like that was in
college when a VW bug full of us
traveled from Michigan’s cold to
a South Florida beach in March/
April. Yippee!
I’m awed
I’ve been part of Police Week
six or seven times. With each
repeat visit, I think that it will
feel like “old stuff ” this time.
I sort of fear the “been-there,
done-that” sense will set in. It
doesn’t.
On arrival at the hotel, it’s
swarming in cops. They are in
plain clothes. Many have their
badges hanging around their
neck. Many don’t. But there is
no mistaking them for who and
what the are: COPS.
It feels like arriving at a huge
family reunion that is already
underway.
After unpacking our gear, we
jump on the Metro (tin gets you
on gratis) and head for Judiciary Square - the Wall.
Let me explain the geography. The Wall in total takes up
most of a city block in central
Washington D.C. The Wall itself
is actually in two sections sitting at opposite sides of the Memorial, shaped like parenthesis.
It is shrouded in manicured
trees and shrubs. In the center
is a reflecting pond and a large
NLEOMF badge etched into the
granite surface.
The Wall is divided into
panels (sections). On each panel
are the names of the 18,000+
fallen officers that have been
etched into its stone surface.
The newest names are always on
the very bottom rows of each
panel. You now have a sense of
what it’s like, from a physical
standpoint.
There are usually throngs of
people there. Along the Wall are
mementos that have been left
there by friends, by survivors,
and by agencies from all across
the country. Those mementos
tell a message of love and of
loss. Some start out, “Dear
Daddy... I miss you...”
The totality of the experience
is overwhelming - to say the
least. Grown men are shaking
hands as old friendships are
renewed. There are pats on the
back. There are eyes filled with
tears and hearts filled with pain,
everywhere.
Each year, I’ve worried that
I won’t “feel it.” That hasn’t
happened so far. Each year is as
touching as the first time I was
there. I hope it always will be
that way.
I’ve really never kept track.
But, I suspect that our visit consumes a couple of hours of time
as we pay homage to the new
names and comfort the survivors who have lost someone
that’s close. It’s sort of like going to a funeral for few hundred
of your closest family members
all at the same time. We visit.
We laugh. We cry. We try to
bolster one another through the
rough spots.
Finding beer
For most, this is a “must-do”
function on the Washington
tour circuit (wink). It is nearly a
24x7 activity. Nearby one finds
a few familiar haunts: the Irish
Channel Pub, the F.O.P. Lodge
#1, and the F.O.P. Beer Tent
which has dozens of vendors
selling every kind of cop thing
you can imagine - and some that
you can’t.
If you decide to hang out
at the Irish Channel you can
almost bet that sometime late
in the evening, a group of pipers
will round the corner from the
Memorial, march up the street,
and join you in the pub while
playing Amazing Grace and everyone holds their beers high in
remembrance and respect.
The beer spots will be
jammed with cops. Yet, there
will be no arguments. Aaaah
yes, cops, guns, and beer... what
a great mix (wink). Everyone
acts as if you are their best
friend, I guess, because you are.
There are no strangers here;
only family.
This is another part (a very
important part) of the family
reunion and the experience. You
will see more cops in once place
than you’ve ever seen anywhere
before. After a beer or two, you
will come to the realization that
our family is greater than any
single agency, greater than all of
the bad bosses, greater than any
state, it is the greatest body you
could know. And, you are part
of it.
The events
Truly, there are events for
everyone. I can’t do all of it
justice here. However, there are
two web sites that are listed
below for your ease of reference.
Events go on all week. There is
the Blue Mass, the Law Ride
(motormen), multiple gatherings for surviving family members, the Emerald Society Pipe
Band Service, Honor Guards
from everywhere standing at
the Memorial (24x7), and the
arrival of the Unity Tour, just to
name a few.
To me, the peak of the week
is the Candlelight Vigil. It is
always held on May 13th at
dusk at the Memorial. There are
famous people giving speeches.
There are songs sung that will
stir your heart. There is the awe
of watching a sea of 25,000 candles come sweeping to light as
we hear Amazing Grace sung and
watch a laser driven Thin Blue
Line appear over our heads.
We hold our candles high,
inspired at the notion that our
fallen brothers and sisters are
looking down from above and
can somehow see those lights
and our tears.
Then, there is the Final Roll
Call where the name of each officer that has been added to the
Wall that year is read aloud for
all to hear one last time.
We stand together (yes,
about 25,000 of us). We cry
together. We pay our respects
together. We grieve together.
We try to support the Surviving
family members whose pain is
even greater than our own.
Being cops, once that’s over,
we try to find solace in a brown
bottle with an adult beverage
inside. (wink) We usually do
that until the sun starts to rise.
(sigh)
The Police Memorial Service
is always held on May 15th
on the steps of the Capitol.
Since I’ve been going to Police
Week, it has been attended by
thousands of cops, mostly in
uniform.
Every year, President Bush
has spoken to us. The names
change, but the message is clear
and resonant. He extends sympathy and gratitude for those
who have made the ultimate
sacrifice and simultaneously
thanks those who continue to
stand guard over our freedoms.
I guess I am most impressed
by what follows his speech. Each
year, our president spends 3 - 4
hours, away from the lectern,
greeting each member of every
surviving family. No matter what
your opinion of his politics, he
has a deep and abiding respect
for our Brotherhood and all that
it contemplates.
The REAL reason you
should be there
A couple of years ago, I
decided to take one last walk by
the Wall on the night before our
return trip home. I had been
with brothers, consuming a
few barley-pops, and thought it
would be my last chance to see
it for another year.
I had begun my walk down
the east side of the wall. I was
trying to soak in the totality of the experience: the new
names etched at the bottom,
the wreaths or remembrance,
the cards, the pictures, and the
notes taped carefully in place.
I came upon a young man,
I’d estimate about 25 years old.
He was stooped before the Wall,
touching a name etched there.
The name was at the bottom,
so I knew it was newly added. It
was obvious that he was crying.
A woman of about the same age
stood behind him, touching him
lightly on the shoulder.
I stopped and stood next to
him. I too, touched his shoulder.
He stood up and looked at me
with tears streaming down his
face. I asked of the relationship to the person on the wall.
“He was my FTO,” the man
struggled. With that, he hugged
me and sobbed on my shoulder.
I held him tight and reminded
him that his FTO is now in a
better place. I also reminded
him that he will never be alone.
Never.
After a few moments, we
shook hands and parted company.
The letter
Just before leaving, I came
upon the most profound memento of the entire week.
I saw a single sheet of
loose-leaf paper, complete with
3 holes that had been taped
to a very low spot on one of
the panels. The writing was in
pencil. I stooped over to read
it. It looked like a memo, with
headings and all.
Realizing what it was, I
checked the area, and sat down
right on the ground in front of
this panel so that I could fully
absorb that letter.
It began TO: Officer Joshua Mathew
Williams
FROM: Your daughter, Lisa
DATE: May 14, 2004
Dear Daddy,
I am 13 now, and am really
growing up fast. I’m very different, looking like a young lady.
My mouth looks like the front
end of a Cadillac because, you
see, I have braces.
I am playing soccer this year
and I was in the school play. I
just had a small part, but I did
my best, because that’s what
you taught me to do.
Johnny is 10 now, and he really makes me mad sometimes.
But, Mom says that I have to be
patient because he’s my little
brother and we all need one another. We’re doing OK, but I know
that Mom really misses you. I see
her sitting in her favorite chair
looking at your picture. I think
she cries sometimes.
We miss you, Daddy, and we
wish so badly that you could be
here.
Love, Lisa
P.S. Thanks for taking the time
to paint the pictures of the sunsets, Daddy. They are hanging
in the hallway. I see them every
morning when I get up. They
remind me of you and how
lucky we are to have a Daddy
like you.
Epiloque
I have read that letter to the
students of every class that I
have taught since that day. I’ve
made sure that a copy is in their
student books.
We can’t tell this story too
much.
Spring Break for Cops? Maybe.
For me, it’s a time to recharge,
refocus, and get my mind
around the “Big Picture,” once
more.
If you’re a cop who stays in
the job simply because it is a
regular paycheck, stay home.
You’d probably just get in the
way.
Otherwise, if you’re a cop in
your heart, be there. If you’re a
cop to the center of your being,
show up. If you’re a cop with all
your heart and soul, you need
to share in this experience. Do
it once. Chances are you’ll never
miss it again.
Jim Donahue is a native of the
Midwest, getting his education at
Michigan State University. He is now
training patrol officers on Technology & Tactics. He has responsibility for
training cops around the country to
use patrol car computers - safely.
Jim has worked as a reserve officer,
initially with U.S. Customs & Immigration at the Detroit/Canada border in
the year following the attacks of 9/11.
He has also worked as a patrolman
on the street in a suburban Detroit
community.
This article originally appeared on Officer.com on March 19, 2008 and has
been reprinted with permission from
the author.
President’s
Message
that the opposite is true. During daylight
hours police stop 9% African American.
But at night we stop 17% African American. The basic allegation is that we see
the race of the driver and we improperly
use that observation to decide to stop
someone. If this were true those numbers
would be reversed.
I have been going and I will keep on going to these meetings. Not because I like
it but because this group is going to make
recommendations for change in policy or
training to the City Council in August. I
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am concerned that once again the Bureau
is not going to stand up for us as a group
or for individual officers because they
want to be perceived as responsive to
community concerns.
Portland police officers already stop 12,000
fewer cars in 2006 than in 2004. We take
on the risk of protecting our community
and get little meaningful support in doing
so. If the City thinks we are “profiling” one
option is to tell us to end car stops. Whatever the ultimate outcome is from this process its clear to me we are not the problem
and in fact in Portland neighborhoods we
are a solution every time someone calls
911. It’s time for people stop blaming us
for just doing our jobs.
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The assault
on standards
in the LAPD
by Jack Dunphy
LAPD
What price ‘Diversity’?
The last true meritocracy in the Los Angeles Police
Department, perhaps one of the last to be found
anywhere in America outside the military, is about to
pass into memory.
The LAPD’s Special Weapons
and Tactics (SWAT) team, which
since its inception in 1971 has
confronted and captured thousands of murderers, robbers,
kidnappers, and every other
type of crazed thug imaginable,
will soon be crushed under the
accumulating weight of a foe it
is ill-equipped to oppose and can
but hope to vanquish: misguided
but nonetheless inexorably
advancing notions of political
correctness and social engineering. And what a shame this is.
Writing in the Los Angeles
Times, Robert C. J. Parry, a former
Army National Guard infantry officer who served in Iraq, exposed
the LAPD’s plan to lower the
standards for applicants to the
department’s SWAT team, this
with the transparent aim of placing the first female police officer
in its ranks.
The Times followed up with
added details in this front-page,
above-the-fold story, a story for
which neither LAPD William
Bratton nor anyone else in the
LAPD hierarchy would comment.
It appears that Bratton, who at
every opportunity has proclaimed
his commitment to openness and
“transparency” within the department, has been caught in his own
web of duplicity.
Changes to the long-established SWAT selection process
have been instituted without
publicity (at least until now),
and without the approval or
even the knowledge of the civilian Police Commission, ostensibly the policymaking board
that oversees the LAPD. The
changes were based on a report
by a panel convened by Bratton
himself and charged with, we
were told at the time, investigating a 2005 incident in which
a 19-month-old girl, Suzie Peña,
was killed by police gunfire. The
girl’s father was using her as a
shield as he fired at the officers
who were trying to rescue her,
and she was tragically shot
and killed when the officers
returned fire. Remarkably, this
was the only incident in the
unit’s history that resulted in
the death of a hostage.
While an examination of this
incident was the stated purpose
for Bratton’s convening of a
“Board of Inquiry,” it is now
clear that Suzie Peña’s death
was merely a pretext, one that
provided cover for Bratton to
institute changes to the SWAT
team based on the report of a
supposedly objective panel of
experts. But, as Mr. Parry pointed out in his piece, the board
did not interview even a single
officer involved in the Peña
incident. Moreover, it is now
clear that many of the board’s
members were selected neither
for their objectivity nor their expertise, but rather for their willingness to produce a report that
supported the changes Bratton
already sought to implement.
Only one member of the board
had SWAT experience (and what
a lonely ordeal it must have
been for him), while the others
were either police executives or
lawyers. None of the members
were LAPD officers.
Among its criticisms of the
LAPD’S SWAT team, the Board
of Inquiry found that its culture
is “insular.” And indeed it can —
and should — be. In any organization, be it a business, a branch
of the military, or a police department, a subgroup’s insularity is bound to be commensurate
with differences in the standards
applied to it and those applied to
the larger group.
When the LAPD’s SWAT
team is no longer insular, it will
only mean that its members are
no longer held to a meaningfully higher standard than is the
rest of the police department.
As I’ve observed over my long
career with the department,
it often takes little in the way
of intelligence or skills to rise
to the very highest levels in
the LAPD, but you have to be
special to get into SWAT. Until
recently, that is.
The selection process for a
new group of SWAT officers
is currently underway, but it
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is radically different from the
one used in 2006, when the last
group of officers was added to the
team. What had been a five-day
series of evaluations designed
to test not only a candidate’s
skills but also his dedication and
leadership abilities has now been
watered down to a four-part
process consisting of a physical
fitness test, an obstacle course
(one that is not all that challenging), an interview, and a background check. Any candidate who
passes all four phases will be sent
to SWAT school, and all who complete SWAT school will be placed
on an eligibility list and selected
for SWAT as vacancies occur. Two
female officers are among the
current applicants, and at least
one of them will surely make it
through to the SWAT team, even
if only because Chief Bratton
wishes it so.
This lessening of standards
has predictably met resistance
from current SWAT team members, some of whom spoke to Parry and to Times reporters on the
condition that their identities be
protected. More interestingly, the
changes have also aroused considerable outrage among these
officers’ wives, some of whom
have written to city officials
asking them to reconsider the
new selection criteria. “We are
concerned,” one of them wrote,
“with the safety of our husbands,
the fathers of our children, if
they are expected to go into these
highly dangerous situations with
someone who got in under a
compromised standard.”
These are more than theoretical concerns. The debate
comes just weeks after Officer
Randy Simmons was killed in
a gunfight during an abortive
rescue attempt in the San Fernando Valley. Simmons was the
only LAPD SWAT officer killed
in action in the unit’s history.
A second officer, Jim Veenstra,
was seriously wounded in the
same incident but survived. The
SWAT wives wonder, quite understandably, if a female officer,
or any officer selected under
these new criteria, will be able
to pick up and carry a wounded
comrade to safety. A SWAT officer might weigh 250 pounds
or more when loaded down with
weapons and other gear.
But such worries are inconvenient to utopians such as Chief
Bratton, who is more concerned
with breaking down perceived
societal barriers — even barriers grounded in reality — than
in breaking down actual doors
behind which are waiting
armed criminals. It is telling
that Bratton and the depart-
ment brass made these changes
in secret, and that even now,
after being confronted with the
evidence, they refuse to admit
their involvement or discuss the
changes.
Responding to an e-mail
sent by one of the SWAT wives,
an LAPD assistant chief, the
department’s highest-ranking
female officer, wrote that she
is “not aware of any actions
being taken to lower the standards for getting into SWAT.”
One might be inclined to give
the woman the benefit of the
doubt by assuming she is merely
uninformed, but given that she
was charged with overseeing the
Board of Inquiry — whose report was completed more than a
year ago — her denial lacks even
a modest claim to credibility.
Indeed, the whole affair casts
an unfavorable light on how
the LAPD’s upper management
operates, one that Bratton and
others are now scrambling
to deflect. Asked by reporters to comment on the new
SWAT criteria, Police Commission member John Mack was
characteristically obtuse in
reply. “It’s important for us to
understand,” he said, “that one
can modify standards without
lowering standards.” One can,
but in this case, didn’t.
When reporters asked Bratton about the controversy, he
seemed miffed that the affair
had come to light at all. Referring to the officers who dared
to question the wisdom in these
changes, Bratton said, “They’re
all entitled to their opinion.”
What they’re not entitled to, he
seems to believe, is a right to express those opinions to anyone
who might publish them. Robert
Parry has learned of what he describes as a “witch hunt” within
the LAPD to identify and silence
any officer who spoke with him.
Longtime readers of these
columns will recall that I advocated Bratton’s hiring back in
2002, and that I applauded the
changes he made to the LAPD
during his first year in office. The
department had suffered greatly
under his predecessor, Bernard
Parks, and Bratton enjoyed a
period of goodwill with the rank
and file as he sought to undo
some of the damage Parks had
inflicted. But since that first year
we have seen one disappointment after another as Bratton
revealed himself to be little more
than another ambitious politician, albeit one more adept at
the game than was Parks.
Parks’s downfall was his hubris,
which was such that he flatly reContinued on page 13
Lessons
Learned
by Captain James Harvey
Retired PPB
The city that
used to work
There was a battle – not in
the streets of Iraq – but in
the hallowed halls of the City
of Portland. It was a struggle
over police wages and education requirements for hiring
police officers. The Police Union
pressed for a significant salary
increase based on reaching for
professional status. And yes,
they would agree to educational
standards of at least two years
of college. Early in 1970 that
standard was set and wages
increased dramatically. Recruiting to keep Bureau strength
up was also a priority, and by
mid-1970’s recruiting teams
were sent as far away as North
Carolina, and later Hawaii, to
improve Bureau strength and diversity. But that was in the past.
Today it seems all of that was
for nothing. As reported in
the April 2008 edition of The
Rap Sheet, the Portland Police
Bureau’s patrol salary no longer
is the envy of smaller departments in Oregon. And educational standards are lower while
retirement benefits for new
officers are slashed. Things are
moving in the wrong direction!
Some blogs attributed to Portland Police officers indicated
that some intend to leave after
they have four or five years
of experience and find police
employment in a friendlier environment. We have always had
excellent officers leave for other
pursuits. Lieutenant Tim Bracy
left the Bureau to become a
motivational coach for “Life
Spring.” And Lieutenant Kris
Scoumperdis left the Bureau to
become a city attorney -- then
move on to Arizona. These
were very bright, articulate
men, and their moving on was
a significant loss to the city.
But why are younger officers
disillusioned so early with the
Portland environment?
My experience causes me to
believe that one of the fundamental reasons is lack of
support of the Police Bureau by
political leaders, especially the
mayors Portland has elected to
office in just over two decades.
When I was hired in 1954 there
was an election to determine
who would be Portland’s mayor.
The incumbent was a pharmacist whose administration
was rumored to be corrupt. His
opponent was the Multnomah
County Sheriff Terry Schrunk.
Schrunk won and subsequently
appointed men of unquestioned
integrity. William Hilbruner and
David Johnson died all too soon
in office. Donald I. McNamara,
Chief under an earlier administration, was restored to the
Chief’s position and guided the
Bureau for many more years.
This gave the Bureau years of
stability to grow as a professional organization and establish leadership within the state.
It became the largest, best
funded police department in
Oregon and used its resources
to bring management experts
to Portland to conduct workshops for Portland Police and
surrounding departments.
Turbulence in city government
began when Neil Goldschmidt
was elected mayor. Goldschmidt,
a lawyer with an “anti-police”
reputation, brought Bruce Baker,
Chief of Police in Berkeley, California to be Chief of Portland’s Police
Bureau. At least, Goldschmidt did
not insist on being the Commissioner of the Police Bureau. Instead he appointed Commissioner
Charles Jordan to that position.
When tavern owner Bud Clark’s
customers put his name on the
ballot to run for mayor, Ivancie
saw no need to campaign against
this fellow. Evidently, the citizens
of Portland were amused by
Clark’s quirky personality and
Ivancie lost the election. Fearing
the worst, the Bureau’s senior
commanders promptly retired.
Appointments to the office of
Chief of Police saw many turnovers in the following years.
Turbulence within the Bureau
continued during the administrations of Vera Katz and Tom Potter.
It is difficult to understand why
city leaders would allow the
sworn officer strength to decline
to its present level. In the past,
the Police Bureau had an aggressive recruitment program,
sending recruiters to places as
far as North Carolina in 1975
and later, to Hawaii, to meet
both manpower needs and a
perceived need for “diversity.”
Any serious city administration would decisively attack the
budgetary problems which keep
their police department starved
for officers on the street. That is
– only if public safety was truly
a top priority concern.
Portland police officers,
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to endure each day on our behalf.
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Another cause of decline in officer
morale is the perceived editorial
hostility of Portland’s daily newspaper, The Oregonian. A spin is
often put on unfortunate, but
necessary, police actions resulting in serious injury or death of a
miscreant to make police officers
appear to be eager aggressors.
However, it appears in recent
weeks that the newspaper may
have come to question its critical
attitude. Maxine Bernstein has
apparently settled into the mode
of a police reporter rather than a
writer of commentary. Her recent
piece “Retired cops put the heat
on cold case homicides” is an excellent article that gives a pat on
the back to the Police Bureau.
Lessons Learned
fused to listen to anyone offering
assistance or guidance. Bratton’s
hubris is only marginally preferable: He listens, but only to those
who agree with him. In conducting his secret campaign to put a
woman on the SWAT team, he
seeks to burnish his reputation as
a champion of “diversity,” thereby
aiding him in his quest for a position in the Democratic administration he hopes to see installed in
January 2009.
But when he moves on, what
will be his legacy? The headlines may soon read, “Bratton
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Jimmy Carter ever did was to appoint Goldschmidt as Transportation Secretary, allowing Commissioner Francis Ivancie to fill the
office of mayor. The Bureau was
still intact, and Ron Still became
Chief of Police.
appoints first woman to SWAT
team,” but if that woman should
one day fail in her mission
because she was held to a lower
standard than her peers, and if
that failure results in her own
or someone else’s injury or
death, what will the headlines
say then? And what will William
Bratton have to say about it?
Jack Dunphy is an officer in the Los
Angeles Police Department. “Jack Dunphy” is the author’s nom de cyber. The
opinions expressed are his own and
almost certainly do not reflect those of
the LAPD management.
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In our complex society, voters don’t really get to know
the political leaders they
vote for.
•
Voters ultimately get the
politicians they deserve.
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Top police command must
be relentless in their pursuit of excellence in police
performance, and meet
often with city officials to
brief them on the immediate and long range goals
which need the city’s strong
support for the safety of
citizens in Portland.
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Female officers
have long since proven
their worth
by John Wills
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What a radical idea - lady cops wearing the same
uniform and performing the same duties as their male
counterparts! It will never work we said, they are too
weak, too timid, too small, and not aggressive enough.
Those were some of the arguments that we promulgated to dissuade the powers that be that women and
police work just don’t mix.
Back in the early 1970’s
when I was a rookie Chicago
cop, the thought that I might
have to wade into a bar fight
with a 5’3” female cop as my
partner was very unappealing. The notion that a female
could be a suitable partner for
me while I struggled to cuff
a robbery suspect, did not
strike me as a good idea at all.
My colleagues and I were all
about kicking butt first and
sorting things out later. How
would female cops fit into that
paradigm?
Well, I didn’t know it at the
time, but there were plenty of
ladies that shared the same
mindset that many of us on
the street had. Until they
made their debut as “fullfledged cops,” some of them
had served as matrons in the
women’s lockup. These “ladies”
were tough when they had to
be; they didn’t hesitate for a
moment to smack someone
that needed a little incentive
to listen to orders, or shout
someone down who thought
that disrespect for cops was
the order of the day. They were
tough when they had to be,
and professional always.
So when the first group of
ladies hit the streets of Chicago in the Englewood District
where I worked, I didn’t give
them much of a chance for
survival, much less success.
The 7th District was one of the
toughest, crime-ridden areas
on the Southside of Chicago.
You had to be tough to live
there; you had to be streetsmart to work there. Would
it be possible for the ladies to
make a go of it in this type of
environment? It was the ultimate social experiment.
In the early days, many of
my colleagues were perplexed
about how to deal and work
with female cops. Many of
us treated them as our little
sisters, girlfriends, etc., rather
than viewing them as just
another cop on the beat. This
type of behavior was a hindrance to both the female cops
and the male cops. We backed
them up when no backup was
needed; we handled some of
their jobs instead of letting
them learn “on the job” just as
all of us had done. In short, we
hindered their performance
and retarded their learning
curve, while we ignored some
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Fast forward 35 years ...
What was the result of that
social experiment? The answer
is that it was a resounding
success. The naysayers were
proven wrong; the arguments
that female cops were too
small, weak and timid, proved
to be without merit. Female
police officers are now treated
no differently than their male
counterparts, and their ascension into the command ranks
continues to increase each
year. Case in point: recently in
Chicago, Beatrice Cuello became the first woman to head
up the patrol division. Her
promotion was a huge leap.
Cuello’s last job was district
commander of the Marquette
District on Chicago’s Southwest Side. She now holds one
of the most coveted command
positions in the Department.
All across our great nation you
will find female police chiefs,
assistant chiefs and heads and
assistant directors of federal
agencies.
While I laud all of those
women that rose through the
ranks to become leaders and
supervisors, my heart and
soul has always been with
those that work in the trenches - those cops and agents
that prowl the streets day
and night, to ferret out the
“missing links” in our society
that terrorize our families
and communities. It is these
special female cops that I give
all praise and admiration to.
There have been scores of
them that have proven their
mettle, going toe-to-toe with
thugs and miscreants, without
regard for their own safety.
There are countless numbers
of our female warriors that
have won and lost gun battles
with some of the most dangerous heathens that ever
walked the face of the earth.
Just as there are many of us
that have never been involved
in high-profile, life and death
struggles, gun battles, murders, etc., there are scores of
female officers that simply go
out and do the job in a competent, professional manner
day in and day out. They do
it out of a sense of duty, out
of a love, indeed a passion for
police work, and a sense of
compassion and love for their
fellow man.
I hold these ladies in high
esteem. I was fortunate to
have been involved in training
scores of female FBI Agents
while I was assigned to the
FBI Academy at Quantico, VA.
Their tenacity, resolve, and
focus were inspiring. They
handled tough physical and
mental challenges equally as
well. On the day of their graduation, their FBI credentials
were “earned, never given.”
I am still in contact with
a handful of agents that I
helped train, both male and
female, but Marlene in particular stands out. She is presently assigned to one of the
FBI’s 60 Legal Attache offices
around the world. She is fluent
in two foreign languages, has
a stellar academic background,
and has a tremendous thirst to
constantly improve her skills.
She keeps in constant contact
with me, bleeding me dry for
the latest in tactics, firearms,
and everything and anything
that will help her to survive
and win on the street. Being
assigned in a foreign country
precludes her ability to carry
a firearm, yet she knows that
marksmanship is a perishable
skill, and finds ways to hone
and maintain her proficiency.
In short, the desire and drive
that this female warrior possesses is remarkable. She is
the type of cop that I would
not hesitate to go through a
door with, or have as a back
up when things go sideways.
I know that there are many
more like her out there, and
that there are more that have
preceded her. I salute them for
the adversity that they faced
then, and the challenges they
will wrestle with throughout
their career. I know that the
question posed back in the day
- Female cops, what good are
they? - now holds sway with
no one.
They have proven their
worth and merit. Today I cannot imagine law enforcement
without our women in blue.
They have truly become an integral part of our nation’s law
enforcement community. Stay
safe brothers and sisters!
John Wills an ILEETA member, spent
2 years in the U.S. Army before serving 12 years with the Chicago Police
Department (CPD). He left the CPD to
become an FBI Special Agent, working
Highland Guard:
The first ten years
I made some contacts to various
pipe bands in the State of Washington and British Columbia and
arranged for some members
of the - now defunct – Greater
Seattle Police Pipe Band to play
at Tom’s funeral. They also
helped us plant a seed. Brian,
Steve, and I started researching
what it would take to put a band
together. Then we spread the
word throughout the bureau and
made a solid recruiting attempt.
Within a few months we had
enough people interested and
we started meeting
In January 1998, we officially
proclaimed ourselves an entity
and continued to have meetings.
Early on we discussed our organizational format, our uniforms,
and membership issues. Most
significantly, we determined that
someone needed to learn how
to play the bagpipes and drums.
There was plenty of musical
experience in the group – Sgt.
Bell owned pipes and had played
them for several years, Sgt Kelly
used to be a music teacher, Rob
Hansen from BOEC and I played
in a country band together for
several years and many others
had played other instruments
in school. But none of us was a
proficient bagpiper or Scottish
drummer.
Criminalist (now retired) Jerry
Gaidos stopped in the Scottish Country Shop at SE 35th
and Powell one day just to look
around. He grabbed a business
organized crime, violent crime, and
drugs. John served as the Principal
Firearms Instructor, Training Coordinator, and sniper team leader in the
Detroit Division for 10 years. Before
retiring from the FBI, he spent 7 years
teaching at the FBI Academy at Quantico, VA. He has taught Street Survival
domestically and internationally. John
is presently a field manager with
Advanced Interactive Systems. He also
owns his own business - LivSafe. He is
card for a fellow – Jacob MacIntyre – who was offering bagpipe
lessons. Jerry took a lesson and
brought Jake along to our next
meeting. Since that day, Jake
has been the band instructor.
Criminalists Ken Jones and John
Courtney were involved with the
Portland Police Historical Society
at the time and convinced that
organization to take us under
its wing as a special project and
part of its non-profit status. The
Bureau also supported our intentions and made us an official
special unit.
Now
here we
are 10
years
later,
after
hundreds of
funerals,
memorial,
parades,
ceremonies,
concerts,
and
competitions
– still
intact
and always trying to find members and make improvements.
The PPHG is a mostly law
enforcement pipe band comprised of members from the
Portland Police Bureau, Vancouver (WA) Police, Gresham
Police, the Portland Fire Bureau,
the Tillamook County Sherriff’s
Office, Salem Police, and we
have a retired Redmond Police
Captain and a retired Northhamptonshire England officer in
our ranks along with some civilian folks. Only a few of these
members played pipes or drums
before coming to the band.
Today, our biggest challenge,
just as it’s always been, is finding, and maintaining, enough
members to keep the band a
sustainable entity. There are
currently only 5 active PPB
Proud to support
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program of instruction in place
for new members in training. We
also travel to a summer school
in Canada for a week in July
every year to study with one
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None of what we do is cheap,
nor is it fully funded by any
one organization. Most of our
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Injuries – Work Comp and Motor Vehicle
Chronic neck and low back pain
Headaches and migraines
Shoulder/rotator cuff injuries
Sciatic pain – pinched nerve
Massage
Therapeutic exercise, including
athletic perspective.
John M. Takacs, D.O.
former Portland Reserve Police Officer
Joan P. Takacs, D.O.
Kevin Kane, D.O.
5909 SE Division Street,
Portland, Oregon
503-234-1531 phone
budget is based on contribution and donations. We can use
your help in that form too so
fill out a pink card for a fiscal
services payroll deduction of
just $5 a month and you’ll be
well on your way to supporting
a very important, fantastically
fun, dedicated organization that
serves a mission to commemorate those who’ve gone before
us and given their all.
Our plans for the not so distant
future include a return to The
Washington D.C. Police Memorial next year, a trip to Scotland
in another year or 2, and many
other great things. The time is
right to be a part of the PPHG so
contact any member if you have
questions or visit our web site
www.portlandpolicehighlandguard.com
an authorized NCAA speaker on the
danger of steroids, and he maintains a
blog, Red State Papa. John serves as a
judge for Law Enforcement Technology magazine’s Innovations Awards,
helping to evaluate new products. He
can be reached at [email protected]
or (540) 226-9478.
Don’t forget to honor our fallen
brothers and sister this May –
and every May – during National Police Week. You can see
and hear your Highland Guard,
Honor Guard, and several other
memorial units at ceremonies in
Salem at DPSST, in Portland at
our memorial sight in Waterfront
Park, and at nearly a dozen other
events around the metro area.
This article originally appeared on
Officer.com and is reprinted with the
permission of the author.
Nunquam Obliviscar –
that’s our motto: We shall
Never Forget!!!
William Meyer,
AT TORNEY AT L AW
Photo courtesy of the Portland Police Highland Guard
Would you believe it’s been 10
years now since the formation
of the Portland Police Highland
Guard (PPHG)? Take yourself
back to 1997 – a tragic year to
be sure – with the murder of
Tom Jeffries in the line of duty.
Sgt. (then officer) Brian Kelly,
Sgt. (retired) Stephen Bell, and
I were all on the Honor Guard
then and we were tasked with
various aspects of memorial services for Tom. Unbeknownced
to the three of us, we had
bagpiping in our blood. It took
this tragic event to get us all on
the same sheet of music (pun
intended).
by Officer Erin Anderson
East Precinct
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A tribute
to Sergeant
Gordon Morgan
by Detective James Lawrence
Cold Case Homicide Detail
Former Marine and Detective
Editor’s Note: Gordon was the 2007
Guest of Honor at an annual dinner of
current and former Marines. This introduction was written by Det. Lawrence
and was later used, in part, as Gordon’s
eulogy.
Gordon William Morgan,
USMC, was born in Drumheller,
Alberta, Canada, on November
1, 1923.
His senior year of high school
was the school year of 1941 and
1942. On December 7, 1941,
the Japanese Imperial Forces
attacked the United States at
Pearl Harbor. Gordon Morgan
enlisted in the United States
Marine Corps on Monday, December 8, 1941 in Detroit, Ml.
After completing boot camp,
Gordon was transferred to Golf
Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th
Marines in April, 1942, as the
7th Marines shipped out of
Norfolk, VA as part of the 3rd
Marine Provisional Brigade.
The 2nd Battalion went aboard
the USS Heywood through the
Panama Canal and arrived in
Apia, British Samoa on May 8,
1942. Shortly after, Golf Company 2/7 went to Savaii Island
as “Strawman Detachment”
on outpost duty. In August
the company rejoined the 2nd
Battalion and began a period of
rigorous physical training with
daily and nightly marches. On
or about September 1, 1942, the
1st and 2nd Battalions boarded
ships in Apia and reunited with
the 3rd Battalion at sea. The
brigade rejoined the 1st Marine
Division on Guadalcanal on
September 18, 1942.
Previously, on August 7, 1942,
allied forces, primarily of the
United States, landed on Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and the Florida
Islands in the Solomon Islands.
The landings on the islands were
meant to deny their use by the
Japanese as bases for threatening
the supply routes between the
U.S. and Australia, and to secure
the islands as starting points for
a campaign with the eventual
goal of isolating the major Japanese base at Rabaul. The landings
initiated the six-month-long
Guadalcanal campaign.
Taking the Japanese by surprise, by nightfall on August 8,
the 11,000 Allied troops, under
the command of Lieutenant
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General Alexander Vandegrift
and mainly consisting of U.S.
Marine Corps units, had secured
Tulagi as well as an airfield under construction at Lunga Point
on Guadalcanal. The airfield was
later named Henderson Field by
Allied forces.
A series of attempts at
retaking Henderson Field failed
for the Japanese, including
the Battle at Edson’s Ridge on
September 14, 1942. As the
Japanese regrouped, the United
States forces concentrated on
shoring up and strengthening
their Lunga defenses which
included the September 18th arrival of the Allied naval convoy
delivering the 4,157 men from
the U.S. 7th Marine Regiment,
to Guadalcanal. These reinforcements allowed Vandegrift,
beginning on September 19, to
establish an unbroken line of
defense completely around the
Lunga perimeter.
Being aware that Japanese
forces were huddled around the
Lunga perimeter to the west,
Marine Corps units became
small operations in the area of
Matanikau River in the Matanikau Valley. After several
defeats, the Marines were able
to finally destroy the Japanese
4th Regiment and the 7th Marines maintained the area of the
Lunga perimeter from the area
controlled by the US Army’s
164th regiment south and west
across Edson’s Ridge to the
Lunga River.
On October 12, a company
of Japanese engineers began to
break a trail, called the “Maruyama Road”, from the Matanikau
towards the southern portion
of the U.S. Lunga perimeter.
The Japanese 2nd Division had
arrived and moved along the
road but became strung out due
to the many muddy ravines,
steep ridges and dense jungle.
With what was left of the 4th
regiment, and the addition of
the 1,200 troops of the 124th
Infantry Regiment, the Japanese had greater numbers and
had maneuvered to a position to
break the US perimeter by October 22. On October 18, Japanese
artillery, using 150 mm howitzers, and Japanese dive bombers
began pounding the US defenses
around Henderson Field. The US
forces were unaware of the advance of the ground forces along
the Matanikau River.
On October 23, two battalions of the Japanese 4th
Infantry Regiment and the nine
tanks of the 1st Independent
Tank Company launched attacks
on the U.S. Marine defenses at
the mouth of the Matanikau.
Partly in response to the attacks, on October 24, the 2nd
Battalion, 7th Marines under
Lieutenant Colonel Hanneken
deployed to the Matanikau. After Japanese forces were sighted
approaching the Marine’s positions from the south, Hanneken’s battalion was placed on a
ridge facing south which formed
a continuous extension of the
230th Infantry Regiment
“stumbled” into Puller’s lines at
about 22:00 and were driven off
by Puller’s men. For unknown
reasons, Japanese staff then
reported to the command that
Japanese men had overrun
Henderson Field. At 00:50 on
October 25, General Hyakutake
signaled Japanese command
at Rabaul that, “A little before
23:00 the Right Wing captured
the airfield.”
At 03:00 on October 26,
the reinforced 3rd Battalion
of the Japanese 4th regiment
finally reached and attacked
the Marine defenses near the
Matanikau. Japanese troops
assaulted all along an east-west
saddle ridge held by Hanneken’s
battalion but concentrated
inland flank of the Marine’s
horseshoe-shaped defenses. A
gap, however, still remained
between Hanneken’s east flank
and the main perimeter.
With the redeployment of
Hanneken’s battalion, the 700
troops of 1st Battalion, 7th Marines under Lieutenant Colonel
Chesty Puller were left alone
to hold the entire 2,500 yards
line on the southern face of the
Lunga perimeter east of the
Lunga River. Late on October
24, Marine patrols detected additional approaching forces, but
it was now too late in the day
for the Marines to rearrange
their positions.
The Japanese had very little
artillery or mortar support for
their upcoming assault, having
abandoned most of their heavy
cannons along the Maruyama
Road. Between 16:00 and 21:00,
heavy rain fell, delaying the
Japanese approach and causing “chaos” in the Japanese
formations, already exhausted
from the long march through
the jungle. The Japanese right
wing force accidentally turned
parallel to the Marine lines, and
all but one battalion failed to
make contact with the Marine
defenses. The 1st Battalion,
particularly on Hanneken’s Fox
Company, which defended the
extreme left flank of the Marine
positions on the ridge. A Fox
Company machine gun section
under Mitchell Paige killed many
of the Japanese attackers, but
Japanese fire eventually killed
or injured almost all the Marine
machine gunners. At 05:00,
the Japanese 3rd Battalion, 4th
Infantry succeeded in scaling
the steep slope of the ridge and
pushed the surviving members
of Fox Company off of the crest.
Responding to the Japanese
capture of part of the ridgeline,
Major Odell M. Conoley, Hanneken’s battalion executive officer quickly gathered a counterattack unit of 17 men, including
communications specialists,
messmen, a cook, and a bandsman. Conoley’s scratch force
was joined by elements of Hanneken’s Golf Company, Gordon’s
unit, Charlie Company, and a
few unwounded survivors from
Fox Company and attacked the
Japanese before they could consolidate their positions on top
of the ridge. By 06:00, Conoley’s
force had pushed the Japanese
back off of the ridge, effectively
ending the Japanese attack. The
Marines counted 98 Japanese
bodies on the ridge and 200
more in the ravine in front of
it. Hanneken’s unit suffered 14
killed and 32 wounded.
Machine gun fire on October
26 wounded Gordon on Hanneken’s Ridge during the battle.
Mitchell Paige was awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor as
was John Basilone. Chesty Puller
was awarded the Navy Cross.
Gordon was evacuated to
New Caledonia and later by
hospital ship to Auckland, N.Z.
He left there December 15,
1942, and arrived at Oak Knoll
Naval Hospital, Oakland, CA,
New Years Day, 1943. Gordon
was released to limited duty at
Naval Air Station Alameda in
May 1943. He then transferred
to NAS Astoria, OR in February 1945. After hospitalization
at Naval Hospital Astoria, he
was discharged as a corporal of
Marines on August 20, 1945.
Gordon joined the Portland Police Bureau on August
27, 1945 and patrolled the
first three days on the bureau
wearing his Marine Uniform.
Gordon spent many years as a
detective, patrol supervisor and
a detective supervisor. Gordon
retired from the Police Bureau
after thirty years of service on
September 3, 1975 as Detective Sergeant in charge of the
Homicide Unit.
After a five-day retirement,
he went to work as a special
agent for the Multnomah
County District Attorney and
retired from there twelve years
later, on April 30, 1987.
Gordon is married to the
former Mary Jane Donaldson.
They have five sons, Bill, Mike,
Ricky, Dan, Patrick, one daughter, Colleen, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
For many years, he was active
in Cub Scouts, coached Little
League and Babe Ruth baseball
as well serving on many school
and community activities. He
was President of the Portland
Police Athletic League for two
successive terms.
In 1981, he first heard of and
joined the 1st Marine Division
Association. In 1991 he founded
and became the first president
of the Oregon-Columbia River
Chapter of the First Marine
Division Association (FMDA).
Simultaneously he was the editor
and publisher of the monthly
chapter newsletter. He continued
in that position while serving as
the Deputy Vice President West
of the FMDA. Following a twoyear term as the Vice President
of the FMDA was elected to the
presidency on August 7, 1999.
Get sleep
when you can
by Sergeant Robert O’Brien
Police Magazine
Ignoring the basic human need for rest
could get you or someone else killed.
Those with military experience
are very familiar with the expression “sleep fast.” This refers
to grabbing a few winks whenever, wherever possible. That’s
because in the military, sleep is
unpredictable and often inadequate—especially in combat.
In recent years, both the medical community and the military
have conducted extensive, continuous testing on all aspects
of sleep, from minimum sleep
requirements to the effects of
sleep deprivation.
I’m not an expert on sleep,
and my views are only those of
an average person who knows
just enough to defer to the real
experts in the field. Respected
experts like Lt. Col. Dave Grossman who discusses at length
in his presentations and books,
the effects of sleep—especially
sleep deprivation.
Occupational Hazard?
Why is sleep deprivation an
issue for police? Because, just
like the military, police have
unpredictable, changeable,
sporadic work and sleep patterns. Police often routinely
“double back” from their regular
work shifts—for court, overtime
(double and even triple shifts),
and for SWAT with call-ups at
any hour of the day or night.
Like the military, police are very
familiar with what it means to
“sleep fast” – sleeping whenever they get the chance.
Gordon is a past commander
of the Portland Police Post
2807 VFW. He currently is
the National President for the
Guadalcanal Campaign Veterans
Association and Secretary of the
Oregon-Columbia River Chapter
of the FMDA. Gordon is still active with Marine Corp Coordinating Council, Family day.
Gordon has also presided over
and helped found the Guadalcanal Campaign Veterans Association. In April of 2001, Gordon
was asked to help dedicate the
newly remodeled and renamed
Chesty Puller Hall of Valor at
the Virginia Military Institute.
Gordon cut the ribbon with he
daughters of Chesty Puller and
Commandant James Jones.
Gordon Morgan passed away
in his sleep on March 30, 2008.
Firefighting is another profession with unpredictable, sporadic work and sleep patterns,
but with a very different view
toward sleep.
Firefighters are “institutionally
smarter” than military and police. By “smarter” I mean firefighters are not only authorized
to “sleep on duty,” but even
have beds provided for them.
In stark contrast, police are put
up on charges for “sleeping on
duty,” and in the military they
are court marshaled for “sleeping on post.”
On-Duty Disasters
Studies show that sleep deprivation contributes to workrelated mistakes and accidents,
including possibly two recent
fatal traffic accidents. A Midwest
security guard on his way home
after working his first overnight
shift apparently fell asleep at
the wheel, striking a vehicle and
killing its driver.
A West Coast sheriff deputy’s
cruiser struck and killed two bicyclists, and injured two others.
The accident, which occurred
at 10:30am, may have been
the result of the deputy falling asleep at the wheel—after
working a 12+ hour shift the
day before.
Both cases are under investigation. These are only two of
the many actual and near-miss
incidents where sleep deprivation may be a factor.
Sleep Debt
While sleep deprivation is a
growing concern for law enforcement, there is a light at
the end of the sleepless tunnel. That light is getting the
recommended 7 to 8 hours of
sleep every day. However, for
police, this is often far easier
than done, given the unpredictability of the job. The result is
“sleep debt.” The good news,
according to Dave Grossman,
is we can pay off “sleep debt”
by “catching up” on lost sleep.
Also, a cat nap of at least 30
minutes is helpful, although not
a substitute for enough sleep.
Now, I’m not advocating sleeping or napping on duty. Not only
will it get you put up on charges, but it’s also dangerous (since
you’re vulnerable to anyone
intending you harm). Instead,
what I’m advocating is, no matter how demanding your work,
family obligations and hours
are, strive to get enough sleep
every possible day. And when
this isn’t possible, when you do
get the opportunity, catch up
on your sleep, to eliminate or
reduce your “sleep debt.”
This is especially true for SWAT,
where you are subject to Callups 24/7. “Murphy” (as in Murphy’s Law) is fond of late-night,
early morning Callouts, especially right after you’ve finally
fallen asleep. How many of you
have awakened from a dead
sleep at 3 a.m., shaking cobwebs from your brains? Then,
minutes later, you’re headed to
a life and death situation.
When the Call-up ends, it’s
time to work your regular shift,
handling a number of highrisk warrants, often working
overtime. By this time, you’re
beyond ready for some muchneeded sleep. So, you finally
fall into bed and into immediate
deep sleep only to be awakened
at 3 a.m. by your pager because you have another SWAT
Callout. Now you wish you had
gone to bed as soon as you’d
gotten home, but instead you
chose to “unwind” by watching
your favorite TV show.
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Catching Up
This may not happen every
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Police work “crazy” hours. They
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people are going home, working
when most people are home.
However, as Dave Grossman
points out, there’s good news.
You can still get enough rest if
you get 7 to 8 hours of sleep
each day on a regular basis.
When this isn’t possible, the
next best thing is to catch up on
your sleep to reduce or eliminate your “sleep debt.”
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And remind you that once in
awhile, under the right circumstances, it’s OK to take a little
“cat nap” (as long as it’s at
least 30 minutes).
Medical experts are proving the
importance of sleep when it
comes to proper performance,
especially for police and military. However, when it comes
to sleep, the best advice of all
may be what the military has
been telling us for many years:
“sleep fast.” Because the life
you save just may be your own.
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July in
the Steens
by Detective Dave Schlegel
Retired PPB
Just standing
in water waving
a stick
A mile up the road we passed
our first herd of antelope for the
day, basking and browsing in a
sunny alpine meadow at 9,000
feet. Over the top we went and
started down the southern
flank. It was completely different than the northern side with
its gradual slope. The southern route wound around deep
gorges and we could see snow
patches, and saw and heard the
water from the melt joining
with spring water to cascade
down from high into the steep
canyons where it formed the
Little Blitzen River and Indian
Creek, hidden from our view by
groves of aspen in the narrow
valley bottoms.
There were lots of wildflowers still blooming at the higher
elevations; Indian Paintbrush,
Lupine, Asters, Black-eyed
Susans, Steens Thistle, Juniper,
and Mountain Mahogany. We
stopped to gawk and take tourist pictures.
The road got progressively
and perversely worse as we
made our way down the mountain. It was mostly a dirt track
with rocks the size of bowling
balls protruding from the earth.
Jill had to help me pick out
a route to drive through. The
rocks in the road all showed
scuff marks from cars lower
than ours which had presumably hit bottom negotiating the
road course. We smelled heat
and stopped once in the shade
overlooking a little canyon to
let our brakes cool down.
Movers & Shakers
There was a big campground at South Steens which
we drove through and found
completely deserted. A big
sign at the vacant camp host’s
space announced that the
campground was reserved for
071607-072607 for “OYCC”.
We had no idea what that was
but had a good time coming up
with possibilities. Oregon Youth
Conservation Corps? Old Yuppies Crusading for Christ? Just
past the campground there was
a big horse camp with corrals for
camping horses. We wondered if
the wild mustangs of the Kiger
Gorge traveled here on vacation.
There was also a sign for the
Riddle Brothers’ Ranch, who we
figured must own some of the
cattle we’d seen grazing in the
sage brush as we got lower on
the mountain.
The road got noticeably better after we passed the campground and we finally hit the
posted 35 mph speed limit we’d
been seeing on signs along the
road since Monday. I felt like I
was living dangerously as I raced
along the road at 40!
We scared up three turkey
vultures along the road and
smelled that ol’ familiar aroma
of death. I told Jill we’d better
stop to make sure it wasn’t a
dead cross country camp attendee, but inside my mind I
was thinking bones and skulls
and figuring out how we were
going to use duct tape to secure
an enormous elk skull and antlers to the car top carrier. As the
vultures squawked and circled
above us we discovered a small
coyote, well past its prime and
in the midst of being a decomposing sushi lunch for the
birds. Nice!
40 miles and three hours
later we were back in Frenchglen. We’d seen signs for public
access to fishing along the road
up the Steens, a mile East of
Frenchglen. We drove in, set up
lawn chairs, a little table, and
ate lunch like royalty on safari
in the shade of the Subaru. Mid
90’s, noon, perfect time to fish.
We walked to the stream
and waded wet into the Donner & Blitzen River. I spooked
two 12” trout and watched as
they scurried across a shallow,
sandy bottom into the cover of
shadows under a cottonwood
tree root ball downed into
the river. I tied on an elk-hair
caddis fly and a dark colored
nymph on Brian’s 5 wt line on
his 4 piece, 4 wt, Orvis rod. Jill
tried a black and white wooly
worm with a light colored
Sergeant William GOFF (DPSST # 26748) of the Drugs
and Vice Division transferred to East Precinct effective
March 20, 2008.
Police Officer Jeff RUPPEL (DPSST # 43488) of East
Precinct went on a Leave of Service effective April 8,
2008.
Sergeant David ANDERSON (DPSST # 18154) of East
Precinct transferred from East Precinct to the Detective
Division / ATF Task Force.
Police Officer Heidi HALL (DPSST # 23954) of
Southeast Precinct was promoted to Detective and
was assigned to the Detective Division effective March
20, 2008.
Police Officer Joseph SANTOS (DPSST # 29573) of
North Precinct was promoted to Sergeant and was
assigned to Central Precinct.
Police Officer Daniel BARNARD (DPSST #49119) was
sworn in on March 21, 2008 and was assigned to the
Training Division.
Police Officer Joe HANOUSEK (DPSST # 10230) of the
Telephone Report Unit transferred to the Traffic Division effective March 20, 2008.
Police Officer Christian BARKER (DPSST # 28069)
returned to duty from a Leave of Service and was assigned to Southeast Precinct.
Police Officer Philip HARPER (DPSST # 18995) of
North Precinct retired from the Bureau effective February 18, 2008.
Police Officer Jay BATES (DPSST # 31070) of the
Drugs and Vice Division was promoted to Sergeant and
was assigned to North Precinct.
Police Officer Tony HARRIS (DPSST # 27566) of the
Strategic Services Division was promoted to Detective
and was assigned to the Detective Division.
Police Officer Rick BEAN (DPSST # 39770) of North
Precinct was promoted to Sergeant and was assigned to
Southeast Precinct.
Detective Heidi HOUSLEY (DPSST # 31291) of the
Detective Division transferred to North Precinct.
Recent transfers, promotions,
and retirements.
Police Officer Jeffrey BELL (DPSST # 38996) of
Southeast Precinct was promoted to Sergeant and will
remain at Southeast Precinct.
Police Officer David BRYANT (DPSST #47224) completed probation and was assigned to Central Precinct.
Police Officer Sara CLARK (DPSST # 43492) of
Southeast Precinct was transferred to the Telephone
Report Unit.
Sergeant Chris DAVIS (DPSST # 36611) of Central
Precinct transferred to the Drugs and Vice Division.
Sergeant Todd DAVIS (DPSST # 18957) of North
Precinct will transfer to the Traffic Division.
Police Officer Jimmy LEE (DPSST # 25055) returned from
a Leave of Service and was transferred to the Drugs and
Vice Division.
Police Officer Kristen MAAS (DPSST # 37669)
returned from a military Leave of Service and was
transferred to Northeast Precinct.
Sergeant Scott MONTGOMERY (DPSST # 23815) of
the Training Division transferred to Northeast Precinct.
Police Officer Tommy NEWBERRY (DPSST # 21603) of
East Precinct transferred to Southeast Precinct.
Police Officer Stuart PALMITER (DPSST # 27244) of
Southeast Precinct transferred to T.R.U.
Sergeant Vic DODY (DPSST # 26972) of Southeast
Precinct transferred to the Training Division.
Police Officer Jami RESCH (DPSST # 37142) of the
Tactical Operations Division was promoted to Sergeant
and was assigned to East Precinct.
Police Officer Derrick FOXWORTH (DPSST # 43483) of
Northeast Precinct transferred to the Tactical Operations Division.
Police Officer Kenneth REYNOLDS (DPSST # 37287)
Of the Drugs and Vice Division was promoted to Detective and was assigned to the Detective Division.
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James SHINDLER (DPSST 12910) was appointed as
Fleet Coordinator in the Police Liability Management
Division.
Bill SINNOTT (DPSST # 13337) was appointed as the
Police Service Coordination Team Program Manager
and is assigned to Central Precinct.
Sergeant Wendi STEINBRONN (DPSST # 28922) of
Southeast Precinct transferred to East Precinct.
Police Officer Cassandra TEBO (DPSST 47315)
completed probation and was assigned to Southeast
Precinct.
Sergeant Randy TEIG (DPSST # 21689) was on LOS
and has transferred to East Precinct effective.
Police Officer Crystal VIUHKOLA (DPSST # 29197) of
Central Precinct transferred to the Telephone Report
Unit/Complaint Signer’s Office.
Police Officer Davonne ZENTNER (DPSST # 41483) of
Northeast Precinct transferred to Southeast Precinct.
Police Sergeant Dan COSTELLO (DPSST # 16309) of
the Traffic Division retired from the Bureau after 24
years of service effective March 19, 2008.
Police Officer D. Sue JOHNSON (DPSST # 4967) of the
Records Division /Telephone Report Unit retired from
the Bureau after 34 ½ years of service effective April
14, 2008.
Police Sergeant Fred KELLOGG (DPSST # 35606) of
Northeast Precinct retired from the Bureau after 9 1/2
years of service effective March 14, 2008.
nymph with a flash of red
which were both tied by the
principal in Burns. She used
Brian’s home made 3 wt, which
she adored. We both tried different combinations of flies
and nymphs, Jill out of a scientific study of local entomology,
and me out of necessity as I
lost flies catching brush along
the banks.
I’d started out downstream
of the root ball in the river
where I’d spooked the two big
trout and carefully and slowly
worked the banks and rocks
upstream towards it. I got one
good strike, but missed setting
the hook when I was distracted
by sounds of a family of ducks
walking on the bank and eying
me. As I approached the root
ball hole my fly was attacked
by thousands of voracious little
smolts, who churned the water
and no doubt telegraphed the
impending doom to the two big
boys under the log who probably fled overland toward Lake
Krumbo. In any case, I never
saw them again.
I worked an eddy around
a good sized hole 8’ deep and
ringed with a log and several
rocks. I placed the fly upstream
and let it drift through the
hole with the gently moving
current. As the fly passed the
hole the current caught it and
swung it back toward my side
of the stream where an eddy
moved it upstream 20’ before it
again moved out into the main
current and drifted through
the hole. I watched the fly,
mesmerized, as it worked the
hole three or four times in 10
minutes after my initial cast.
Way cool!
My friend Brian says that a
day without catching a fish is a
waste of time, and if one is not
catching fish one is just standing in the water waving a stick.
Jill and I both got skunked. The
scenery, birds and water had
made the hot day bearable and
peaceful, and seeing the two
trout in their environment had
been almost as good as catching
them. Almost …
After two hours in the water
we loaded the rig back up and
headed north into the Diamond Valley. Farmed fields of
freshly cut and round-baled
grass hay greeted us like lakes
in the arid land. There was
an incredible array of greens
and yellows on the valley floor
surrounded by stark, dry, rimrocked mesas, and sage covered
hills. We found the Diamond
Hotel, circa 1869, in the town
Retirees
Corner
Editor’s Note: John Giani
is filling in for Bob Roberts
this month.
We had our annual PPB
Southwest Classic golf tournament March 31 – April 2. It was
renamed the PPB - Jack Fawcett Open in honor of Jack. He
started this event 9 years ago
at Francisco Grand golf course
in Casa Grand, Arizona. Three
players have participated all
nine years. They are Bud Bladow, John Verheul and John
Giani.
A couple of interesting things
happened prior to the tournament: John Leckman had to
cancel but asked that his green
fees be given away as prizes
mainly to the player with the
highest score (a position he
was familiar with) With that
we created the “John Leckman Award” and Terry Jones,
MCSO Ret won the $100.00
prize. Also Mike Thomas called
by John Giani
PPB Retired
and said he was having triple
by-pass surgery and would not
make it this year. He sent down
a $300.00 check to be used as
prizes. All the players thank
both Mike and John for their
kind donations.
Rita Bladow of Wells Fargo
Bank sent down a case of prizes
that included jackets, shirts, lap
blankets, golf balls and much
more. We all thank Rita and
Wells Fargo for their donations.
Also the PPA sent two dozen
tee shirts. Just about everyone
playing won cash or a prize. Jim
Bare’s wife Paralee created a
quilt which was presented to
John Giani along with a plaque
donated by all the players.
Notable players and “big
hitters” Dennis Nordlof,
Larry Findling, Ray Tercek and surprise arrival Rob
Aichele all seemed to enjoy
themselves. Nordlof was the
big winner for day two. Steve
Asp and wife Alane
took a big
divot out of the prize fund with
great scores on both days. Ray
Tercek, Mike Wiebe, George
Young and Greg Pluchos won
the men’s 1st place Team prize
for Tuesday. The ladies winners
were Kathy Barr, Debi Tuke,
Alane Asp and Dodo Johnson.
Wednesday big winners included the team of D. Nordlof,
Paul Barr, Don Lind and Bob
Brooks. Individual winners
were (Tuesday) Tim Johnson,
Mike Wiebe, John Giani and
(Wednesday) Nordlof, Young,
Brooks and R. Tercek. The
a salutation to the gods. Then
I hoped my ancient German
ancestors had not wronged the
man’s relatives from Norway in
some long ago time. Maybe his
great-great-great-great grandfather had been a marauding
Viking captured by my German great-great-great-great
grandfather while the Viking
was stealing a milk cow in the
Alps. My great-great-great-great
grandfather could have cut the
little finger off the Viking as
a punishment and warning to
other marauding Vikings and
the Viking passed his digital
sacrifice on to his descendants
as his legacy.
Three other couples joined
us at dinner and we were the
only hotel guests for the night.
Two of the couples were from
Portland and the other was
from Medford. We listened to
good stories from their travels and experiences in this
part of the world. One couple
from Portland had pulled off
the road on Steens Mountain
and camped near Kiger Gorge
their first night, then again
camped off the road near the
south campground and the
sign to the Riddle Brothers
Ranch. They had brought four
dogs with them, two heelers
and two Springer spaniels.
They lived in the woods of NW
Portland on 3 1/2 acres next to
Forest Park.
The other Portland couple
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ladies individual winners were
Alane Asp, Debi Tuke and
Barb Giani. There were many
more winners and prizes in addition to closest to the pin and
straightest drive.
Again next year we will be in
Las Vegas on March 30 – April
1 at Silverstone golf course. We
have a player limit of 40 players so when the applications
come out in August get yours
in early.
(?) of Diamond, population
4. There were screened in
porches, a natural and rustic
interior, and nobody around.
We waited until “Shirley” came
out from the kitchen and introduced herself. She reminded
us five times that dinner was
served at 6:30 and gave us our
room key. Shower! Air conditioning! Flush toilet! Heaven …
Dinner was again served
family style with another form
of roasted chicken, rice, green
salad, fresh bread, and pineapple upside-down cake with
ice cream. The owner’s coffee
was good and strong and when
I mentioned it tasted it just
like Mom’s he asked if my mom
was Norwegian. I said we were
of German Scotch descent and
he walked away, uninterested.
When he returned to ask if I
needed a refill I noticed he was
missing the little finger of his
right hand. What was the deal
with the missing body parts
down here?
In Portland people seem to
add adornments to their bodies,
like tattoos and body piercings.
In southeastern Oregon they
must remove parts of their
bodies as an adornment. It
would be interesting to see if
the native indigenous population practiced this art and what
it might signify. I was aware of
the practice of shaping heads
in the West, but was not aware
of a tradition of amputation as
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had stayed in Fields the previous night, renting one of the
two dilapidated trailers behind
the store. They said it was
nice, rustic, quaint, and felt
like they’d gone back in time
to the 1960’s. They knew the
house where the female half
of the other Portland couple
used to live. Apparently they
had lived within three blocks of
each other on NE Wisteria for a
number of years and the second
couple would walk by the other
couples’ house on daily exercise
rounds. Small world.
The male half of the couple
from Medford knew the Frenchglen/Steens area well and asked
questions of the owner about
roads, gas, and outdoor opportunities.
We took a stroll around the
grounds after dinner, had a
smoke, and got swarmed by
mosquitoes. We went back to
the room early, and Jill read
for a bit while I jotted some
notes. I tried a few card tricks,
and played blackjack while
we basked in air conditioned
comfort on a real four-poster
bed. Tomorrow we’ll head for
Pete French’s round barn and
head for home through Burns,
Bend, and Madras. We might
dip a line at Mecca Flat on the
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Profanity
as “Verbal Judo”
by Sergeant Dean Scoville
Los Angeles Sheriff ’s Department
Sometimes a four-letter word is the most effective
weapon in your arsenal.
And I say, more AC power to
them.
However, I’ve seen numerous incidents wherein the
timely drop of a four-letter
word successfully mitigated
a use of force. Time and
again, this point would be
3. He is obviously less
concerned about any
political repercussions of
his rhetoric than going
home in one piece;
4. I have a very strong
likelihood of having
more than one orifice
in my ass if VerboCop
has to make good on his
word.
It’s been said that profanity is a sign of a limited
vocabulary. I beg to differ: I see it as a sign of an
unlimited vocabulary.
But while unchallenged as
a means of consolidating
frustration, agitation, and
aggrieved thought processes, obscenities aren’t for
everyone. In dealing with
hostiles, police adherents of
“better to light a candle than
curse the darkness” philosophies may shun four-letter
words, opting instead to
enlighten their quarry with
50,000 volts via a TASER.
judo” refresher course;
driven home when the nonshot, non-sprayed, nonelectrocuted, non-ass-kicked
suspect in cuffs would say,
“Damn, dude—you were
pissed off! You scared me!”
Well, hell, dude – that’s the
idea.
Put yourself in the addled
mindset of Sam Suspect:
Confronted by a cop telling
you to “drop the f***ing
gun or I’ll shoot,” some of
the thoughts you might entertain include
1. That cop is obviously
thinking outside the box
when it comes to service
oriented policing;
2. He could use a “verbal
Now, in the interest of full
disclosure, cussing isn’t
always a good thing. Indeed,
some studies indicate that an
escalated use of profanity can
actually precipitate a use of
force. A good rule of thumb:
If one f-bomb doesn’t do the
job, a baker’s dozen probably ain’t gonna help, either.
Indeed, backing off from
the profanity and speaking
slowly and calmly may actually convey a growing sense
of control over the situation,
as well as strike a chord with
the suspect whose sense of
masculinity might otherwise
be challenged. (Or, sense of
femininity for those differently constituted).
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should govern one’s decision
as to when and where to use
such language. Like most
things in life, time and place
is everything. Uttering curse
words in the secretariat is
probably not a good idea, unless having hostile workplace
complaints filed on your ass
is your idea of a good time;
channeling Eminem in the
classroom thing will probably
get you 86’d out of the DARE
program.
(Parenthetical thought: Although—again in the interest of full disclosure—given
the sophisticated vocabulary
of some second graders, it
might be a case of tailoring
to one’s audience. As one
Associated Press headline
noted: “It’s OK to Curse
Cops, Court Says Teen’s
Conviction Overturned on
First Amendment Grounds.”
In the body of the ensuing
article, Randall Marshall,
legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of
Florida, made the salient
point, “Police officers are
professionals, and they
certainly ought to be able to
withstand someone cursing
at them.” I say, “Try telling
that to Human Resources,
you b******!”)
But when someone fixates
on some vulgarity to the
exclusion of whatever good
has been accomplished
by its use, they betray a
skewed sense of priorities.
The fact remains that many
a cop has saved another’s
life by leaving zero ambiguity of his willingness to do
whatever was necessary to
get the job done. I remember reading years ago of
a man who jumped from
a bridge to drown himself,
only to find himself confronted by a cop who yelled
at him, “Look, you dumb
son-of-a-*****, if you don’t
get your ass to shore, I’m
gonna plug a cap in it.” The
man swam like a dolphin.
Yet we hear of a retired
sheriff’s lieutenant testifying
against an officer who used
profanity, condemning the
man for not remaining “calm
and assertive,” as officers
are trained to do. But as the
Force Science News online
newsletter asserts, a consultant for the officer’s defense
“took Webb’s words out of
the context of antiseptic
Monday morning quarterbacking and put them in the
context of his on-the-spot
fears”—something that the
mercenary consultant should
have done, as well, in considering the officer’s frame
of mind prior to becoming
involved in a shooting.
Look, it’d be nice if we could
always be as gentile and
polite as the cops in “Demolition Man.” But then, we’d
probably get our collective
asses kicked like ‘em, too.
Consider the reality of the
inner city gangsta, a creature congenitally immune
to civil overtures, with a
tendency to regard extensions of respect as signs of
weakness.
“Excuse me, sir. Would you
mind adopting a sedentary
respite at curbside?” certainly sounds professional
enough. “Sit your ass down
on the curb!” is far more apt
to get our rag wearing li’l
wannabe on the concrete.
Unfortunately, those sitting in ivory towers, and
those who have spawned
the illiterate little bastards
that cops routinely deal
with, don’t cotton to what I
characterize as just another
form of cultural sensitivity
being exercised.
So rather than backing the
officer for taking a reasonable, prudent, and effective
posture in some volatile field
situation, they side with
the offended illiterate and
the creatures that spawned
him. This is due to a number
of factors, not the least of
which is that they’re often
clueless.
Thus, the officer who operates from the position of
strength might just be able
to finish his tour of duty in
one piece, but not without
earning the occasional black
mark. I guess it comes down
to a question of priorities.
Don’t get me wrong. I think
it’d be great if cops used a
G-rated vocabulary, 24/7.
It’s just that I think things
would probably go to shit if
they did.
Sgt. Dean Scoville is the Associate
Editor of Police Magazine and a patrol
supervisor and investigator with the
Los Angeles Sheriff ’s Department.
Dean has received multiple awards for
government service. He is the author
of Shots Fired, Police Magazine’s popular monthly column examining officerinvolved shootings as experienced by
the officers themselves. Dean can be
reached at dean.scoville@policemag.
com.

May 2008 - Portland Mercury

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