Online Article: ‘Burned out’: Portland cops leave scathing exit interviews

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This article from Oregon Live/The Oregonian was picked up by Police1, and it discusses a number of exit interviews that retiring and resigning Portland Police Bureau officers, detectives, and administrators left during the past year. Of particular interest is the section that discusses the story of Jaykary Jackson:

"Young officers of color have left, including Jaykary Jackson, who went to Boise, and Elise Temple, who was one of the Police Bureau’s recruiters. Temple declined to comment on the record.

Jackson didn’t respond to messages but he was one of the officers who spoke out last summer about being on the front line of racial justice protests as an officer with the Rapid Response Team.

A graduate of Portland State University who joined the Police Bureau after working for Nike for 10 years, he said then that he became a cop because he “wanted to make the most out of my life by helping others.” He also was following in the footsteps of his father and aunt.

But Jackson said he was disgusted by the hatred he and other officers faced while standing on the police lines. He got hit by an explosive one night, felt tingling in his fingertips and heat from the device, and got berated by young white protesters.

Often when he tried to talk to someone of color at the protests, he said, “Someone white comes up and blocks them and tells them not to talk.” Or yells, “Eff the police ... don’t talk to him.” He left shortly after he was named to be a new community engagement officer."

The article illustrates the additional concerns that officers in major cities and law enforcement agencies face, especially when their civilian oversight overwhelmingly seeks to placate protests with emotional vindication in lieu of reasoned, rational, and planned reforms.

Date (Dublin Core)

April 5, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Maxine Bernstien

Contributor (Dublin Core)

James Rayroux

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

online news article

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.police1.com/police-administration/articles/burned-out-portland-cops-leave-scathing-exit-interviews-ePzPpd8bo5PYpiKk/

https://web.archive.org/web/20210410221039/https://www.police1.com/police-administration/articles/burned-out-portland-cops-leave-scathing-exit-interviews-ePzPpd8bo5PYpiKk/

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--Universities

English Cities & Suburbs

English Emotion

English Government Local

English Protest

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Portland

Oregon

police

reform

hatred

disgust

Portland State University

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

officer shortage

LEO

police

cop

law enforcement

exit interview

labor

employment

exodus

protest

leadership

morale

Collection (Dublin Core)

Law Enforcement

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

04/06/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

04/10/2021

08/02/2022

09/09/2024

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This item was submitted on April 6, 2021 by James Rayroux using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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