Thread by @alex_zee

This morning at Portland City Hall: @deray & @samswey are discussing 'best practices' re: police union negotiations with city council (before the city kicks off negotiations with @PPAVigil in the next months). Background: portlandmercury.com/news/2019/09/1…

Here's the research @deray & @samswey will be referencing: joincampaignzero.org/#vision

@deray @samswey Mayor @tedwheeler begins the work session with some ground rules: "First and foremost we are not going to talk about the PPA contract."

City lawyers now going over Oregon’s collective bargaining law.

The presentation points to San Antonio's last police union negations as an example of community-engaged negotiations. But (if I'm remembering this correctly) public involvement did little to change the outcome of that deal. sacurrent.com/the-daily/arch…

They also reference Austin's negations—where the public did help move the needle on police union policies. texasobserver.org/new-contract-c…

Mayor Wheeler pushes back on DeRay & Sam's stat that 58% of people who Portland police used force against in the last quarter were homeless. "That's not right, is it?"

Here's the data: public.tableau.com/views/ForceAud…

Story: portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/…