Newly elected Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt introduced a new policy Tuesday that will result in dropping a significant portion of … He also recognizes that the city’s current approach to protests isn’t seeing much progress by any metric.“I do know just from being an observer of what’s happened so far, that it seems that every time force is escalated, the protests get larger and more tumultuous,” Scmidt said, making an observation commonly heard from protesters.Ultimately, he said, he hopes the new policy will be viewed as a de-escalation.Shortly after someone threw a makeshift explosive device at protesters in Southeast Portland early Saturday morning, a man wearing dark clothes and carrying a military style helmet with night-vision goggles was videotaped near the area. Besides the tsunami of Since he can’t initiate an expansive restorative justice program, Schmidt introduced a new policy Tuesday that will result in dropping a significant portion of the more than 500 protester cases brought over the course of the demonstrations.“In a democracy where speech is so important, being the system that’s being criticized and then using that system to shut down speech,” Schmidt said, “I think we have to hold ourselves to an even higher level of tolerance for that speech to take place.”Barring unusual circumstances, prosecutors under Schmidt’s new policy won’t press charges for city ordinance violations that do not involve deliberate property damage, theft, or the use or threat of force against another person. Schmidt ran on a campaign platform of criminal justice reform, which included calling for the release of non-violent prison and jail inmates due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and not pursuing overly long prison sentences like those enforced by "These demands we're hearing from the public right now... this is what I campaigned on," Schmidt said. Kate Brown announced Monday morning that she is appointing Schmidt to start work in August, so he can fill in the gap before his first term officially starts.In June, Underhill told his staff he was resigning because it would be "shortsighted of me and unfair to the office and our community" for him to begin overhauling the county's justice system, only to have a change of leadership in six months. Carrière.

That would include charges such as interference with a police officer or disorderly conduct.“The presumption on a lot of these cases that are listed out there is that we won’t prosecute,” Schmidt said. While the DA laid out a plan to drop charges against a significant number of protesters, observers say local law enforcement officers are making more arrests for what appear to be arbitrary reasons. In this role, Mike oversees a $90 million budget and spearheads community-based efforts to reform our state’s approach to criminal justice. After the legislative session, Mike was hired by the Criminal Justice Commission to implement the new Justice Reinvestment program statewide. The state medical examiner's office said Scott died of a gunshot wound and ruled his death a homicide. In this role, Mike oversees a $90 million budget and spearheads community-based efforts to reform our state’s approach to criminal justice. Kate Brown appointed him to the job this summer so he could complete the term of our prior district attorney, Rod Underhill, who retired July 31. “But at the same time, they have their job and their duties, and that means that they will make an arrest when they see that the law’s been broken. Schmidt was expected to start in January, when current District Attorney Rod Underhill's term expired. "Shrinking the criminal justice system, giving power back to judges from prosecutors, holding police accountable. “And maybe even more community involvement in the resolution of these cases ... to kind of honor the fact that they were there protesting and wanting to be heard. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — There’s a new district attorney in Multnomah County.Mike Schmidt, who won the May primary, officially took over as the DA on Saturday, the day after outgoing DA Rod Underhill retired.The 39-year-old said, “We have let racial disparities become commonplace and that is not OK,” adding he would listen to what the community says and “then use my authority in my office to put those changes into practice.”“During my campaign I promised that I would bring major reform to Multnomah County and that starts now,” he said.Schmidt, who said he was “excited and humbled” to be leading the DA’s office, promised his office “will deconstruct what is not working to then build a stronger, smarter, safer and more compassionate criminal justice system for all.”“The system,” he said, “turned a blind eye to the suffering of marginalized community and that ends now.”Underhill, who had been with the DA’s office for 32 years, announced in 2019 he would retire at the end of 2020. District Attorney Mike Schmidt Will Drop Most Charges Against Portland Protesters After reviewing 550 cases, the DA’s office now plans to prosecute 47, all of which are felony cases. Mike Schmidt has been a resident of Southeast Portland since 2005, when he moved to the city where he met his wife, Clare, a Portland native. He was also elected to the board of the National Association of Sentencing Commissions. But last month, Gov.

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