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Jami Resch steps down as Portland police chief, African American lieutenant Chuck Lovell to fill the job

Not yet six months into her job as chief, Jami Resch is stepping down from leading the Portland Police Bureau.

Resch announced that she asked Charlie Lovell, an African American lieutenant, to serve as the next chief of police.

"I have asked Chuck Lovell to step into the role as chief of the Police Bureau,'' she said at a noon news conference. "He’s the exact right person at the exact right moment.''

The sudden change in leadership comes as Portland Police Bureau is under fire for its handling of massive demonstrations stemming from the May 25 death of George Floyd, a black man killed after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes.


Resch apparently is stepping down on her own, another major shakeup in the Police Bureau following the sudden departure late last year of former Chief Danielle Outlaw, the bureau’s first African American woman to lead the bureau. Outlaw left to serve as Philadelphia police commissioner.

Lovell served as Outlaw’s executive assistant. Under Resch, he led a new Community Services Division, that included the Behavioral Health Unit, a community engagement officer, a new homeless community liaison and a new civilian community engagement specialist.


Lovell was hired as a Portland police officer in May 2002, promoted to sergeant in July 2011 and lieutenant in July 2017.

Resch described Lovell as "the most compassionate, humble , genuine to the core,'' person who never set out to become chief of police.


"You never wanted it. You were meant for it,'' Resch said.


Resch said she’s not leaving the bureau.


"What’s important is that we focus on standing beside Chief Lovell,'' Resch said.


"I am 100 percent confident that he is the right person for this job,'' Mayor Ted Wheeler said, following Resch’s announcement.


"Together we will work on meaningful and bold reforms,'' Wheeler said.


The mayor, who serves as police commissioner, acknowledged that the bureau has "missed talent'' in promotions and succession planning.


This story will be updated.

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/20...t-chuck-lovell-to-be-named-chief-at-noon.html
 
I thought our police chief was the woman from Oakland!
 
Watched the presser. Chuck seems like an awesome guy.

Donald Dixon, a longtime counselor at Jefferson High School, said he got to know Lovell when he worked as a school resource officer at Jefferson High School. Lovell made kids feel comfortable and quickly became keyed in on what was going on in the school and in the community, Dixon said.

Ronnie Herndon, a longtime African American community activist who works with Albina Headstart, said Lovell has helped assist him in maintaining a healthy environment for at-risk students. Herndon called Lovell "a person who not only cares but he acts.'' Herndon said he knows the new chief will face some stormy days, "but we’ll be right there with you.''
 
THE HCP said:
Ron Herndon is a great guy. Has done so much in our community.
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I think it was Ron who sponsored the play about W.E.B. Du Bois at Portland State University. I attended the first showing and kept my ticket stubs as souvenirs. I had to get special permission to keep the stubs and I believe it was Ron Herndon who I spoke to.
I tiny bit of trivia to bore you.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Pay me $50 and I will.
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Don't listen to Sly. I paid him $50 to ban Sly and look what it got me. That's right, a lighter wallet that's now missing $50.
 
wizenheimer said:
shit...pay me $40 and I'll change is myself
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I hope the demo party doesn’t go all in on defunding as their big message. Biden I hope makes a stand and supports police. There are thousand of excellent black police officers nation wide, and the low income areas of innocent people will be hurt by reducing police assistance. Biden better provide a path.
 
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Hoopguru said:
I hope the demo party doesn’t go all in on defunding as there big message. Biden I hope makes a stand and supports police. There are thousand of excellent black police officers nation wide, and the low income areas of innocent people will be hurt by reducing police assistance. Biden better provide a path.
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defund is pretty vague at the moment. Im fir a complete overhaul though. From prehire screening and training, to regulations and directives.. All of it.
 
Hoopguru said:
I hope the demo party doesn’t go all in on defunding as there big message. Biden I hope makes a stand and supports police. There are thousand of excellent black police officers nation wide, and the low income areas of innocent people will be hurt by reducing police assistance. Biden better provide a path.
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Biden is not for defunding the police.

He is for putting restrictions and regulations on the money local police forces receive from the feds.
 
Orion Bailey said:
defund is pretty vague at the moment. Im fir a complete overhaul though. From prehire screening and training, to regulations and directives.. All of it.
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Im for big reform but defunding police as an anti police tactic I question?
I'm always for defunding agencies and departments that are not needed.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Biden is not for defunding the police.

He is for putting restrictions and regulations on the money local police forces receive from the feds.
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I haven't heard him speak out on it as yet, many politicians are afraid to take a stand one way or the other.
 
Hoopguru said:
Im for big reform but defunding police as an anti police tactic I question?
I'm always for defunding agencies and departments that are not needed.
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If this is the only way to break the toxic police unions and their culture of protect and serve the policemen on the back of the vulnerable population... I am fine with it.
 
andalusian said:
If this is the only way to break the toxic police unions and their culture of protect and serve the policemen on the back of the vulnerable population... I am fine with it.
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It better not be the only way because defunding them would be an unmitigated disaster.
 
tlongII said:
It better not be the only way because defunding them would be an unmitigated disaster.
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Defunding it in order to restructure it with new rules is the method that makes sense, I do not think anyone believes that a police as a concept is one that makes no sense, what makes no sense is a police with authority and no regulation, responsibility and the ability to enforce changes - that's basically tax-payer funded anarchistic militia.
 
tlongII said:
It better not be the only way because defunding them would be an unmitigated disaster.
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well, it's pretty goddamn close to an unmitigated disaster right now

I guess people haven't been paying close attention to this because the police reform movement didn't just start 3 months ago. It's been going on for decades. And thru it all, the police have simply accumulated more power and shed more accountability. In many cities now, police & their unions have become completely unresponsive to civilian oversight. Reforms haven't worked; review boards don't work; oversight doesn't work. Police departments have become more obstinate; more militarized; more brutal; and less accountable. And thru their unions they have managed to game the legal system heavily in their favor

so why the fuck should city councils and mayors and normal citizens think that if reformers just work a little harder and have a little more patience, they'll be able to break down the blue walls when those same blue walls are thicker, higher, and more impenetrable than they were 10 or 20, or 30 years ago? That dog don't hunt. George Floyd died 65 years after Emmet Till was lynched

the one lever the cities can pull is the budget. De-funding is as much about leverage as it is about reform and a new normal. If police and their out-of-control unions resist any meaningful change and fight any attempt at legitimate oversight, then slash their fucking budgets....by a lot. It's time for all those good cops that people keep talking about to step up and break that thin blue line because the line is thick, not thin, and the blue is stained red with the blood of victims like George Floyd and Tamir Rice
 
All the people that complain that good cops will be let go / suffer through no fault of their own if there is a de-funding of the police are basically complaining that people who did no wrong are hurt through no fault of their own other than association to a group...
 
andalusian said:
All the people that complain that good cops will be let go / suffer through no fault of their own if there is a de-funding of the police are basically complaining that people who did no wrong are hurt through no fault of their own other than association to a group...
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Hmmm... sounds kind of familiar, eh?
 
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