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Now Playing: Police Mistakes in Portland Total $6,867,525.32
Topic: POLICE
Top 25 Settlements: Portland Police Incidents settled 1993-2011 totalling rougly $6.9 million***
Note:
- Family of James Chasse, Jr.* $1,600,000.00 7/28/10 9/17/06 Use of force (leading to death)
- Protestors August 2002&May 2003 $845,000.00 12/1/04 8/22/02 Use of force (pepper spray)
- Family of Damon Lowery $600,000.00 6/25/05 12/5/99 Use of force (leading to death)
- Family of Raymond Gwerder $500,000.00 11/14/07 11/4/05 Shooting (died)
- Barbara& Ted Vickers, Estate of Dickie Dow $380,000.00 3/27/02 10/19/98 Wrongful death/Dickie Dow
- Family of James Jahar Perez* $350,359.00 9/3/08 3/28/04 Shooting (died)
- Daniel Thomas** $311,000.00 3/14/08&9/28/04 7/11/03 Use of force
- Bruce Browne $200,895.00 4/1/03 7/11/01 Shooting (lived)
- Family of Dennis Young* $200,000.00 10/8/08 1/4/06 Shooting (died)
- Maria-Janeth Rodriguez-Sanchez $177,161.41 12/2/05&8/3/05 4/8/03 Use of force
- Harold Hammick, Ri'Chard Booth & Alex Clay* $175,000.00 (jury) 9/23/09 3/17/07 Mistreatment (pointing guns and more)
- Family of Peter Gilbaugh* $150,000.00 10/1/02 12/31/98 Shooting (died)
- Barbara Weich $150,000.00 1/2/08 5/29/05 Use of force (broken arm)
- Eunice Crowder $145,000.00 4/23/04 6/9/03 Use of force (including Taser)
- Chaz Miller $133,926.06 6/21/06 4/21/03 Use of Force/wrong person arrested
- Gerald Gratton $118,000.00 4/4/94 7/19/93 Shooting (lived)
- Two women victims of Ofcr John Wood* $105,000.00 2/25/09 7/21/06 Use of force (broken arm)
- Ivory Spann $100,056.79 4/7/97 6/6/93 Force/Baton hits
- Family of Duane Anthony Shaw $100,000.00 10/25/95 9/14/93 Shooting (died)
- Johnny Senteno $96,975.23 12/30/94 8/21/93 Use of force/Arm broken by projectile
- Janice M Aichele (deceased) $90,000.00 11/7/96 10/6/94 Off-duty shooting (murder/suicide)
- Heather Bissell $88,385.83 9/23/05&8/17/05 4/30/03 Use of force/arrest
- Dalebert V Acelar and 3 others $87,000.00 6/16/99 10/17/97 Unlawful search/detention
- Shei'Meka Newmann* $82,000.00 4/14/11 (jury) 2/13/09 Use of force, false arrest, malicious prosecution
- Hung Mingh Tran* $81,766.00 1/30/11 11/24/07 Use of force (Taser)
*-new info or new settlement/judgment since April, 2008
**-Daniel Thomas' case ended with a judgment in March, 2008 of $100,000, but the city closed out his original claim with $91,746.53 in city legal expenses. The total reported payout including attorney's fees was $311,000 (Oregonian, 12/10/09)
***The total of the top 25 up to 2005 was $3.6 million; in April 2008 it was $4.5 million
****Ladd was beaten by off-duty officers, but on-duty cops acted to cover up the beating
We use the term "settlement" loosely to cover settlements, judgments, and other payouts by the city to cover the costs of police misconduct.
*****Portland Copwatch has incomplete data for 2008-2011 but hopes to update this information soon.
Posted by Joe Anybody
at 8:46 PM PDT