Sam Bouman

  A Look at an Ongoing Legal Complaint against the City of Portland and Multnomah County for Violating the Constitutional Rights of Protesters   This month's show is dedicated to an interview with Vika Safarian, an associate attorney with Levi Merithew Horst LC. She is pa... Read more

  This is the full version of the interview with Vika Safarian from the March 23, 2021 episode of Totality of Circumstances. Safarian is an associate attorney with Levi Merithew Horst LC in Portland, and part of the legal team representing Don't Shoot Portland and other pl... Read more

  On this month's show: The Citizen Review Committee disputes the findings of a police misconduct investigation stemming from the alleged mishandling of a car theft report, and a nightmarish confusion of paperwork. Their decision forces a conference hearing with the Chi... Read more

  This is the full version of an interview with Dr. Juniper Simonis, an environmental scientist and data researcher with Dapper Stats and the Chemical Weapons Research Consortium, from the February 23, 2021 episode of Totality of Circumstances. Dr. Simonis witnessed the st... Read more

  An edited version of this interview appeared on the February 23, 2021 episode of Totality of Circumstances. Dan Handelman has been a Portland activist focusing on police issues with Portland Copwatch since the early 1990s. He talks about his observations of the relations... Read more

  Eviction moratoriums were some of the first legislative actions taken at the start of the pandemic, but locally, the moratorium will be shifting. Portland and Multnomah County renters will soon be subject to a less tenant-friendly moratorium on evictions for non-payment ... Read more

  The threat of coronavirus means that organizing and protesting in person is often not feasible for many, even if they would like to make their presence known and their voice heard. But local groups have found a way through that barrier, using car caravans as a way to sho... Read more

  Portland's longest-standing citizen police oversight board is the Citizen Review Committee (CRC), which is part of the Auditor's Office's Independent Police Review division (IPR). The CRC is an eleven-member, all-volunteer body that hears appeals of police misconduct cas... Read more