Sam Bouman

  Police Accountability Commission Co-Chairs Discuss Ongoing Creation of a New Oversight System in Portland This month we spoke with Aje Amaechi, Tirsa Orellana and Christian Orellan-Bauer, the Co-Chairs of the Portland Police Accountability Commission (PAC)'s Powers and ... Read more

  Looking Back at 2022 with Portland Copwatch This year our main focus has been on the Police Accountability Commission (which we’ll mostly refer to in this show as the PAC, or P-A-C), an all-civilian volunteer group that is tasked with creating a proposal for a new commu... Read more

  This is full version of the interview with Dan Handelman and Philip Chachka, both of Portland Copwatch. A partial version of this interview aired on our December 27, 2022 show. This longer version includes more discussion of the current state of Portland's police oversi... Read more

  This month we spoke with the co-chairs of the Portland Police Accountability Commission's fact-finding phase. The PAC is a 20-member all-volunteer group that is tasked with creating the new police accountability system demanded by voters in 2020. The fact-finding phase i... Read more

  This is the full interview with PAC Co-Chairs Faythe Aiken, Lovisa Lloyd and Seemab Hussaini. It was recorded Sunday, October 23, and the edited air date version (with more background information) can be found here.   ### Read more

  This month, Sam and Jasmin speak with Ardeshir Tabrizian, a journalist currently with the Salem Reporter, and Ellen Osoinach, an attorney with the Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press. This is part of our ongoing coverage of Portland's ongoing attempt to establi... Read more

Sam and Jasmin chat with Dan Handelman of Portland Copwatch about recent developments with the Citizen Review Committee (CRC). Watch the City Council session: City Council 2021-04-08 PM Session Read more

  A Look at an Ongoing Legal Complaint against the City of Portland and Multnomah County for Violating the Constitutional Rights of Protesters   This month's show is dedicated to an interview with Vika Safarian, an associate attorney with Levi Merithew Horst LC. She is pa... Read more