street kids accountable if they break the law, he does so with compassion. i m going to use my office for correction and not take you to jail right now, okay? there was one kid who told another officer that if officer powell or officer mack and a few others were to be alone in o brien square that they would surround him and attack him and beat him down. that was a threat that i took seriously. there s no point to fighting, dude. danger and death are something kids living on the street face every day. i ve seen people get shot. you know, i ve seen people get stabbed. but it was people that i didn t really know. but in 1999, 17-year-old alex ison known on the streets as tomorrow was murdered by a sexual predator. this incident left a deep scar on portland s homeless youth community, especially chris, alex s best friend. we cared a lot for each other. we did.