Homegrown Ducks take ight Local talent for 2015 UO season — SEE SPORTS, B10 PortlandTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2015 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BEST NONDAILY PAPERTribune • PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND THURSDAY Oregon economy expected to stay on stable course CAUGHT ON CAMERA TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO Slower growth in China will have an impact on Oregon exports, state economists say. University of But ripple effect from China downturn Cincinnati ■ Body cams are coming, and police offi cer could put damper on manufacturing Ray Tensing has been charged By PETER WONG take the wind out of our man- Portland policing will never be the same with murder The Tribune ufacturing sector.” after his body Lehner said in the past 18 By PETER KORN beat me up,” Borg says. camera China’s recent economic months, the dollar has gained The Tribune But the video police shoot recorded him problems will affect Ore- 20 percent relative to other could show something that would shooting gon’s economy, but state currencies. It’s midnight, and you hear a interest, say, a burglar, smart Samuel DuBose economists say they will Still, Lehner says Oregon knock at the front door. enough to make a public records during a routine have less effect than the manufacturing is at a strong A police offi cer explains that a request that could provide him traffi c stop. strengthening dollar. annual growth rate of 4 per- dangerous fugitive is believed to with the video. PHOTO Oregon, and particularly its cent, comparable to what it be hiding in your neighborhood. “The body camera isn’t really COURTESY: manufacturing sector, is more was in the 1990s and the mid- He’s going to search your home going to do anything for me,” HAMILTON dependent than other states 2000s. — and doesn’t need a warrant. Borg says. COUNTY DA on exports — and China is Or- “It really has not slowed He points to a body camera on Portland and Oregon still have egon’s largest trading part- down as of yet,” he says. his chest and asks if he can turn to work out their rules on who ner. But both he and State Econ- it on while he searches. gets access to police video. But if Senior Economist Josh omist Mark McMullen said How you answer that question, you live in Seattle, there’s a fair Lehner told lawmakers that China’s problems — a slowing and the more complicated follow- chance it will show up on You- the status of the dollar is key, economy and a fledgling and up questions, prepares you for Tube. Seattle police decided to especially with other Asian fluctuating stock market — the upcoming debate over how post a blurred version of all their TRIB nations such as Malaysia — will have some effect on Ore- Portland is going to use police police body-cam videos online in also among Oregon’s top five gon’s economy. body cams. an attempt to expand the bound- SERIES trading partners — and Viet- Lehner said China has had Dana Haynes, spokesman for aries of police transparency. nam. three economic bubbles dur- Mayor Charlie Hales, says that Charles McGee most decidedly FIRST OF “It is making our products ing the past decade in local Portland police will be outfi tted COURTESY: WOFLCOM wants that offi cer’s camera TWO PARTS more expensive in the global government spending, hous- “soon.” Money already has been Police body cameras are intended to turned on. market, and making products ing and now stock trading, set aside for the cameras, but the protect minorities, but some experts “As a black man, I have ex- made abroad less expensive during which middle-class in- cost of retaining video records is think they might make the poor and treme anxiety as pertains to po- to American buyers,” Lehner vestors have lost a lot. going to require a request for ad- minorities afraid to be around police. lice offi cers, and as pertains to said last week in the state’s “Typically these bubbles do ditional funds. people with guns. And truthfully, latest quarterly economic and not end well,” Lehner said. Lane Borg knows what he’d er the camera stayed off. as it pertains to white folks with revenue forecast. “We’re go- “So the concern is that we say to the offi cer at his door. The “As an upper-middle-class guns,” says the founder of ing to see more imports and executive director of Metropoli- white guy, I’m not worried that less exports, and that could See ECONOMY / Page 3 tan Public Defenders would rath- the cops are going to come in and See CAMERAS / Page 2 Kengo Kuma kicks off cultural center Architect’s rst U.S. job will combine anese Garden will combine Dignitaries dig in at gardens with learning — not the groundbreaking Japanese garden with center for learning, arts something normally done in for the New Japanese Japan. garden cultural By JOSEPH GALLIVAN his fi rst public commission in “(The Portland Japanese center. From left, The Tribune the USA. garden will) combine aesthet- Mike Abatte, Portland Kuma is known for his star- ics and culture together. Even Parks director; At Portland Japanese Gar- tling buildings which combine in Japan, that combination, Hiroshi Furusawa, den’s groundbreaking for its traditional and modern ele- garden and village, does not Cultural Crossing expansion ments. They use layers or exist.” Consul General of project, six Shinto priests screens of leaves, bamboo “This is a big, big honor, be- Japan to Portland; fl own in from Japan blessed poles, steel and glass, and cause it’s a good step for cul- Dorie Vollum, the site with branches, danc- which disrupt conventional tural exchange between two Co-Chair of Japanese es and prayers. boxy shapes of postwar Japa- cultures.” Garden Cultural Local philanthropist Jordan nese design. He was the fi rst Priests from the Tsurugaoka Crossing Campaign; Schnitzer received the end roof choice for ambitious Stephen Hachimangu shrine from Ka- Jordan Schnitzer, tile of the garden house (basi- Bloom, CEO of Portland Japa- makura, Japan were aided in President of the cally a garage) which he helped nese Garden. the blessing of the site by con- Jordan Schnitzer get built and which was torn More than just an expanded struction workers in flash Family Foundation; down to make way for the com- gift shop and café, the new vests. Kuma loves working on Cathy Rudd, PJG ing cultural center. buildings will be a complete steep mountain sites. Japanese Board of Trustees But star of the show was cultural center. Kuma told the consider buildings on President. Kengo Kuma, the renowned Tribune he is excited to be in- TRIBUNE PHOTO: Japanese architect taking on volved because Portland’s Jap- See GARDEN / Page 3 JOSEPH GALLIVAN “Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to Portland Tribune deliver balanced news that re ects CUBA LIBRE! the stories of our communities. Thank — SEE LIFE, PAGE B1 you for reading our newspapers.” Inside — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN JR. OWNER & NEIGHBOR BILTWELL SOFA SALE Choose your size, your seating comfort, your fabric. All locally made. All on sale Now! 516618.090315 KUHNHAUSEN’S Tuesday-Friday 10-6 • Saturday 10-5 FURNITURE SHOWCASE 2640 East Burnside Street, Portland, OR Family Owned & Operated Since 1919 www.kuhnhausensfurniture.com • (503) 234-6638 A2 NEWS The Portland Tribune Thursday, September 3, 2015 Cameras: Protect citizens or empower police? ■ following guidelines, and ask a From page 1 judge to dismiss the case. When an officer interviews Portland’s Black Parent Initia- a woman who has been sexual- tive. “Because of that fear, I’m ly assaulted, the body cam willing to give up my privacy.” should be turned off, Scruggs According to Multnomah says. But that presents officers County Deputy District Attor- with the start of a slippery ney Ryan Lufkin, the more in- slope. Should it be turned off teresting question, and the one when officers interview the he and other public officials families of murder victims? are beginning to wrestle with, Distraught drivers who have is whether Portland is going to just T-boned other cars in authorize that police officer to which people were seriously record regardless of what the injured? The victims? homeowner says. Beyond that, Body cams on police are in- if the city adopts a policy tended to increase public trust where the officer can’t record in police by taking away from in your home, the district at- officers the ability to misrepre- torney’s office must decide sent the narrative of contro- what special circumstances versial incidents. But the way would be considered excep- things are looking now, Scrug- tions. gs says, body cams are going to increase police officers’ dis- Philosophical questions cretion much of the time. Let’s say the officer at your Still, Scruggs says officers door suspects domestic vio- will benefit. “It’s going to make lence is occurring inside. police officers better,” he says. Which might mean one part- Katie McCarthy is not so ner wants the officer recording sure. A recent Harvard Law and the other doesn’t. If the of- School graduate who published ficer suspects child abuse, and an extensive look at police body the parents are the suspects, cams for the Harvard Law Re- should he turn on his video as view, McCarthy is convinced he comes inside or not? that what body cams are more Lufkin, the DA’s lead on likely to do is make police offi- body cam policy, has spent a to some practical realities, in On the other hand, Lufkin cers more efficient, and that lot of time trying to anticipate Lufkin’s view.