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Charles A. Moose: Race, Community Policing, and Portland's First African American Police Chief Portland State University PDXScholar Dissertations and Theses Dissertations and Theses Fall 1-5-2017 Charles A. Moose: Race, Community Policing, and Portland's First African American Police Chief Douglas Jon Kenck-Crispin Portland State University Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds Part of the Law and Race Commons, and the United States History Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Kenck-Crispin, Douglas Jon, "Charles A. Moose: Race, Community Policing, and Portland's First African American Police Chief" (2017). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 3412. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.5310 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. Charles A. Moose: Rae, Couit Poliig, ad Portlad’s First Afria Aeria Police Chief by Doug Kenck-Crispin A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History Thesis Committee: Tim Garrison, Chair Katrine Barber David Johnson Brian Renauer Portland State University 2016 © 2016 Doug Kenck-Crispin Abstract I , Charles Moose eae Portlad, Orego’s first lak polie hief. A nationally recognized student of the developing theories of community policing, Chief Moose’s prootio as also hoped to help stregthe the diersity of the Portland Polie Bureau. Ultiatel, Portladers ere uale to look past Moose’s puli outbursts and demeanor and recognize his accomplishments. As a city, they missed an opportunity. This thesis uses transcripts of speeches and policy papers to present some political histor to the reader, ut also letters to the aor’s offie, letters to the editor ad the like to osider the soial histor of ’s Portlad. “oe speifi touhpoits of Moose’s adiistratio are osidered, iluding when he and his wife Sandy moved to the King Neighborhood, the Daniel Binns birthday party and the resulting march on Moose’s hoe, his outurst at the Cit Couil, ad other eaples of his legedar ager. Moose’s role i getrifiatio, ad the policies he created for the Portland Police Bureau to lead that harge ill ot e igored. All the hile, the otet of Orego’s racist heritage is forefront in this paper. By 1999, Charles Moose had left the bureau and accepted a job in Maryland. He was selected for many of the accomplishments that the Portland public had criticized him for. Ultimately, this study will show that Portland missed an opportunity to discuss how they wanted to be policed, and what philosophies they wanted their enforcers to personify. i Acknowledgements To Becca, Malee, Max and Bob most of all. I would like to thank Professor Garrison for walking me through this project. He was a great editor, and a wonderful springboard for ideas. He also pushed me past my comfort zone, and encouraged me to take risks in this process and I very much appreciate it. Professor Barber has always been a great resource during my Portland State experience, and I would like to thank her for that. I appreciate the contributions of Professors Johnson and Renauer in critiquing this thesis. Brian Johnson and Mary Hansen at the City of Portland Archive & Records Center could ot hae ee ore helpful! Portlad is er fortuate to hae a it auditor’s staff that is so committed to keeping our records accessible. Lisa Loving of the Portland Skanner assisted me with access to her personal archive, which was unbelievably helpful. Eliza Canty-Jones of the Oregon Historical Quarterly offered so much encouragement and Scott Daniels and Matthew Cowan at Orego Historial “oiet’s Researh Lirar proided soe treedous source material. For the history friends, I need to thank Andy, Dave, Terry, Heather, other Heather, JB and JD, Joe, Finn, John, Sarah, Marty, James, Barney, Kelly, Jimbo, Jeff, Jefferson, other Jeff, Leah, Melissa, Will, Brock and Aaron. Many of you gave me encouragement on this project, and helped me talk through these threads in my head, and then put them on to paper. Some of you are also an inspiration in your research and writing, and I really should thank you more often, as I do so appreciate it! I think Carol, Art, Stan and Bernice would have been quite proud. Finally. ii Table of Contents Astrat ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….i Akoledgeets…………………………………………………………………………………………….………….ii List of figures………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……..i Prefae…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..v Chapter 1 – Itrodutio……………………………………………………………………………………………….. Chapter 2 – Portland, the Police and Rae…………………………………………………………………… Chapter 3 – The Rise of Charles Moose within the Portlad Polie Bureau………………….. Chapter 4 – Becoming Chief of Police Charles Moose………………………………………………….. Chapter 5 - Moig to Northeast Portlad……………………………………………………………………8 Chapter 6 – Birthday Parties and Bean Bags…………………………………………………….………… Chapter 7 – The Binns Report, the NOBLE Conferee, ad Departure……….……………… Chapter 8 – Colusio……………………………………………………………………………….…………….. Biliograph………………………………………………………………………………….…………….…………….. iii List of Figures Fig 1 Chief Charles Moose…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Fig 2 Black Lives Matter March, Portland, November 27, 2015…………………………………………………… Fig 3 City of Portland Ordinance 852 from September of 1870……………………………………….………… Fig 4 The Burger Barn in December, 2015 - 3962 NE Marti Luther Kig Jr Bld…………………..…… Fig 5 SE 31st and Pine……………………………………………………………………………………………………….……… Fig 6 Historic Images of Iris Court……………………………………………………………….………………….…………50 Fig 7 "Lt. Charles Moose hands out job and education information at Iris Court Open House." 52 Fig 8 March 1975, Police Academy Class…………………………………………………………………………………… Fig Charles Moose ad To Potter……………………………………………………………………………………….. Fig 10 Chief Moose in in 1997…………………………………………………………………………………………………… Fig 11 Mayor Katz, Chief Moose and Attorney General Reno walk through the King Neighborhood………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Fig 12 Charles and Sandy Moose's House Today - 422 NE Going……………………………..……………… Fig 13 Police at Home Map……………………………………………………………………………………..……………… Fig 14 Daniel Binns…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Fig Bis Birthda Bash poster………………………………………………………………………………………….. Fig 16 Chief Charles Moose…………………………………….……………………………………………………………… Fig 17 A tryptic of Moose………………………………………………………………………………………………………. iv Preface Figure 1 Chief Charles Moose. Courtesy of Oregon Historical Society, Image bb013831. But at any point in its history that area [Oregon] is not known to be highly populated with people of color.1 -Charles Moose, September 9, 2012 1 Brie R. Willias, Iterieer. Oral Histor Iterie, Charles A. Moose, //. Natioal La Enforcement Museum. v Chapter 1 - Introduction Marches, protests and die-ins across the nation demonstrate that our fellow Americans have seen enough white police officers killing young black men and women. While itig this pape, Blak Lies Matte is a allig ad Feguso, Dallas, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, and Treyvon Martin are names heard in daily conversation – not just people and places relegated to history Figure 2 Black Lives Matter March, Portland, November 27, 2015. Photo by author. 1 ooks. Couities aoss this out ae loudl disussig the alidit of lak lies and how their largely white police organizations, many times staffed with white leaders, police the people of color they serve.2 Portland, Oregon is finding this discussion carried out on her fair streets as well. In July of 2016, just about a week after his swearing in as the Chief of the Potlad Polie Bueau, Mike Masha said, This is a tie hee the members of the community, as well as the members of the Portland Police, have lost faith i its leades.3 Portland is, and always has been, a very white city. But Portland had a very unique opportunity to address how its black communities were policed in the 1980s and 1990s. Charles Moose as Potlads fist lak hief of police, and through his innovative techniques of community policing, developed over decades on the streets and in the classrooms of this city, he attempted to have the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) become a leadig ogaizatio i tasfoig the lies of Potlads lak esidets. This thesis will demonstrate that Charles Moose championed the theory and strategies of community policing, but Portlanders were never able to look past his demeanor and his race, and thus lost an opportunity to make community policing an integral component of local law and order. 2 Aout the Blak Lies Matte etok, Blak Lies Matte website, accessed 3/31/2016 http://blacklivesmatter.com/about/ 3 Statement from Chief Mike Marshman Regarding 2006 Investigation, Portland police Bureau statement, 7/5/2016, accessed http://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=7396&ec=1&ch=twitter 2 Many books and academic journals have covered the subject of policing, and police chiefs specifically, over the decades. In addition, policing in the Pacific Northwest, and Portland in particular, has drawn the attention of historians, authors, and publishers. This next section will point out highlights of that argosy, and hopefully be a resource for researchers interested in this specific topic. In 1941, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology covered an interesting development in Flint, Michigan, which was conducting a nation-wide, competitive search for a new police chief. The journal editorialized that this is a eouagig sig.
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