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Chapter 16: “…Over the next couple of days, the political crisis deepened. The Oregonian reported: ‘Portland Police Chief Penny E. Harrington acknowledged Tuesday that she divulged police information to a man involved in a shooting before details of the incident were presented to a Multnomah County grand jury.'” (Leslie L. Zaitz et al., “Harrington says she gave details to businessman,” The Oregonian, April 2, 1986.)

Chapter 16: “The Portland Police Bureau was sick, if not broken. And as an article in Willamette Week suggested- in the City of Portland, incompetence and a lack of leadership, honesty, and integrity rippled throughout the elected officials as well as through the ranks of bureaucratic management and supervision.” (Reference from “State of siege”, Willamette Week by Jim Redden, April 16, 1986.)

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Great read and very informative.  Should be used in conjunction with course study and for in-service training.

Chapter 11: The Compromise Investigations begin. “There were three investigations: one led by the United States attorney, a federal investigation examining criminal culpability; one by the Portland Police Bureau’s Internal Investigations Unit,seeking violations of the PPB internal rules and regulations; and another bya special review commission, custom-built at the behest of mayor Bud Clark,to inform the citizens of Portland and ward off the mounting bad press.”

The book was absolutely fascinating.  Had no idea how complex police work can be.  Sounds worse than Washington DC politics!

I cannot imagine taking all of this information and putting it together into such a well written book. The cocaine world and the police investigative world woven together and presented in an easy to understand way – what an achievement! Both the book and the police work documented in the book which was done by the author and which formed the basis for the book are amazing.