Ok. All the complaining I do about anti-cop sentiment (when unwarranted) is in one media article.
Basically, this article has looked at Portland pd use of force records and found that a few individual officers use more force than the others. And these are minor uses of force according to the DOJ and article.
The opening line talks about one officer, Nicholas Wambold, who used force against a man in 2022. The suspect was intoxicated and was threatening and attacking people outside a bar. The officers tried to speak to him and then arrest him and he resisted. The officer then, shockingly, tries to forcibly arrest him. Oh my fucking god, the horror of what happens next. Resisting arrest for violence, the officer tries to handcuff the suspect, who starts to fight. The officer then puts the subject on the ground and forcibly handcuffs him. The suspect then refuses to get up and kick officers and the officers try three times to pick him up and put him on his feet. That’s it. End of story. Suspect not harmed. The worst thing that happened is that the officer placed him on the ground and after being forcibly handcuffed (ludicrousness on the part of an officer arresting a violent and resisting suspect!)
Anyway, this officer used minor force more times than any other officer-4x the number of times of MINOR use of force than the Portland pd average. He used force in 17 incidents in 2022.
Minor use of force is anything less than intermediate use of force(pepper spray, taser, baton) or deadly force (gun, vehicle, baton to the head, heavy strikes to the head).
Minor use of force is defined as “force that is intended to establish control of a resistant person, though not reasonably likely to cause persistent pain or physical injury.” Category IV force includes forceful handcuffing or pushing someone to keep them from running away, like Wambold’s actions outside the southeast Portland bar.”
The article then takes a more somber tone. He says on his final use of force in 2022, he shot and killed a man. Not much detail, so I looked it up, but the article makes it sound bad.
Wambold observed the vehicle of a man who had murdered a man the previous day in an incident that was recorded on camera. The suspect fled a vehicle stop and officers used spike strips to disable the vehicle. Once stopped, the suspect starts shootkng at officers through his windshield and they return fire, killing him. He was cleared by the Portland pd, DOJ (Portland is under consent decree) and a grand jury that ruled his actions reasonable.
Because of the consent decree by the doj, officers are required to report any arrest in which officers have any resistance during arrest, no matter how minor.
Thus, the article tries to make the numbers of 17 uses of force(all minor but the fatal shooting of a murder suspect shooting at police) seem like a big deal. This is portapottie land(Portland) and there is a good bit of crime there, so 17 uses of force in one year is not a big deal, especially when they consider shoving or forcibly handcuffing someone as use of force. I have used force more than 17 times in a single year and I have NEVER had a use of force complaint or been investigated for any use of force incident. And I don’t work in fucking Portland.
The article discusses how Wambold’s actions are trouble and signal a warning that he is a danger to the public. They quote multiple experts that talk about such warnings (my guess is that the experts were not told about the nature of the incidents and did not review any of the cases).
To my shock, one of the experts actually mentions the first thing that comes to my mind-what neighborhood does this officer work in? Turns out, it is a bad one. I worked bad neighborhoods my entire career by choice because I loved the action. I threw one punch (to the ribs) my entire career and used pepper spray a few times, taser once, baton 2-3 times, used chokes a few times before they became big “no no’s” and had to draw my gun a few dozen times. Never shot anyone, but came close a few times. Never seriously injured anyone.
So, this is my bitch. Anytime the media or activists talk about “police violence” they only mention the numbers. “Police shot and killed more people in 2023 more times than any other year since records were being kept.” That’s a fact. But no report actually ever looks into any of the incidents in question except the big ones like Tyre Nichols, who was brutally murdered in Memphis. But no attempt is made to look up each incident in any one city, let alone nationwide. No accounting of the number of armed suspects are made, no attempts to look up these incidents to make any remote attempt to decipher if they are justified. These numbers are available, but are not super easy to locate.
That has always been one of my bitches about looking at use of force. These numbers should be easy to find and quantitative and qualitative data should be collected and analyzed. The fbi doesn’t ask much when officers fill out a UCR (unified crime reporting) form. It asks if an officer or suspect are killed, whether they were armed and with what, but not much else.
You’re telling me that with all the media and their resources, they can’t be bothered to look this stuff up? The wash post started keeping track of all the fatal shootings and loves to shout that number, but they don’t ever report on any of those numbers and what’s behind them. Maybe by design so they can get outrage and clicks?
Imo, there should be someone that analyzes this info and completes a concise report of briefly what happened and if it is justified or not. And these numbers should be published and easily accessible. Police departments and a federal agency should be required to report what the results are.
My whole point is that you have news media that reports stuff like this to make it seem like this officer and others are so violent and brutal and corrupt. They are going off clicks and trying to hype George Floyd type of shit. They gave almost zero details about the shooting other than to say that the suspect was a suspect in a murder. They purposely left out the part where he fled from police and shot at them. I am trying to find the shooting of the suspect but I can’t find it yet.
More bullshit propaganda by news media trying to make it seem like Portland pd is allowing violent officers to remain with nothing being done. Here is the title of the article and first opening line.
Some Portland police use low-level force at a rate far higher than their peers.
Portland police have been under federal scrutiny for problematic use of force for almost a decade, but little has changed.
Here is also the first part of the article: “
Shortly after midnight on Aug. 29, 2022, Portland police Officer Nicholas Wambold responded to reports of an alleged assault outside a bar in southeast Portland. Witnesses described a man who had been threatening passersby and, when confronted, had punched someone in the face.
Upon arrival, Wambold and other officers encountered a 54-year-old man in the middle of the street, who appeared to be under the influence of drugs. Wambold described the man’s behavior as “erratic” and “abnormal” in his notes.
When Wambold tried to handcuff the man, the man reportedly curled up in a ball and pulled his arms away. According to officers’ notes, Wambold then “straddled” the man and forcibly snapped handcuffs on his wrists. After the man refused to stand and walk to a patrol car, Wambold and other officers tried to pick him up and lift him into the vehicle, while he reportedly flailed and kicked. They succeeded only after two failed attempts.
“No further force was used,” Wambold wrote in a Force Data Collection Report filed later that morning. In this report, which officers are required to fill out whenever they use force against someone, Wambold described four instances of force: the handcuffing and the three attempts to physically move the man into a patrol car.
According to data shared publicly by the Portland Police Bureau, this was the 15th time Wambold reported using force during an arrest in 2022. He’d use force two more times that year. While all of the types of force he used were considered minor, he reported using force at a rate five times higher than the average Portland officer in 2022.
Wambold, a patrol officer assigned to the Police Bureau’s East Precinct, is one of a handful of Portland police officers who consistently report using force against Portlanders at a yearly rate far higher than their peers.
According to
PPB’s publicly available use of force data, most of the top 20 officers who reported using force most frequently in 2022 also appeared at the top of the list once in the five years prior. One officer appears in the top 20 ranking six years in a row.
Wambold was hired in 2019. In 2021, Wambold used force 11 times, nearly four times higher than the average officer. Incomplete data from 2023 shows that Wambold used force at least 10 times last year. The majority of this force is considered minor. But in April 2023, Wambold shot and killed a man suspected of murder.
The trend of the same few PPB officers using force frequently year after year isn’t new. Portland is under a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice over problematic police use of force. For years, a group of court-appointed advisers has raised concerns with this pattern, and police leaders have promised changes. But little has changed.
https://katu.com/news/local/grand-j...as-county-deputy-justified-in-deadly-shooting
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/02/02/portland-police-low-level-force-settlement-agreement/
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