[What follows is part three of a five-part series on the progress Portland has made on police reform over the past year. Read the rest here.—eds] After the June 2020 budget vote, Wheeler released his own “19-point police reform action plan,” detailing ways his office will improve and adjust policing in Portland. A number of those reforms included actions made in the budget (like “remove police officers from schools”), and others were as simple as.
[What follows is part two of a five-part series on the progress Portland has made on police reform over the past year. Read the rest here.—eds] The beginning of last year’s protests coincided with City Council’s deliberations on the city budget, a vote that determines Portland Police Bureau's (PPB) funding for the year. Of the nearly 800 people who signed up to testify on the city budget in June 2020, the majority of them echoed.