After more than three decades working to hold law enforcement accountable and seeing carnage in the cases he reviews, Mark Gissiner reached the shelf life he says so many in the career hit.
Gissiner announced in December that he would retire as Eugene s police auditor effective Feb. 1, though that s been extended to Feb. 26.
As police auditor, Gissiner audited citizen complaint investigations conducted by the Eugene Police Department for more than a decade following time in similar roles out east, including
in Ohio. As a government agency, auditors have access to internal police records pertaining to investigations that the public doesn’t have.
Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets (CAHOOTS) is a mobile crisis intervention team integrated into the public safety system of the Oregon cities of Eugene and Springfield. (CAHOOTS)
In the past year, as cities have searched for alternatives to police while handling crisis calls, many have arrived in an unlikely place: Eugene, Oregon.
In this episode of This Changes Everything’s focus on efforts to defunding the police, host Sara Bernard heads to Eugene for a virtual ride along with CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets), an inventive and unique effort to respond to crisis calls with social workers instead of police.