Traffic Stops Are About to Change in Portland
It's just the latest shift in a seismic year of back-and-forths with the Portland Police Bureau.
By
Julia Silverman
6/22/2021 at 5:10pm
The ground underneath Portlandâs fraught, tense relationship with its police force just keeps on shifting.
Tuesdayâs formal announcement that Portland would follow the lead of Berkeley and Oakland by pulling back on non-safety related traffic stops (think the broken tail-lights and expired plates, encounters that occur more regularly and escalate more quickly with drivers of color, per the departmentâs owndata), was the rare move that drew praise from the cityâs more progressive quarters.