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An Oregon State Police trooper was justified in using lethal force in the shooting of a 42-year-old man during a traffic stop in Eugene on June 11, the Lane County district attorney announced ...
SALEM, Ore. — An Oregon jury has found a semitruck driver guilty of manslaughter in a 2023 collision on Interstate 5 that killed seven farmworkers and injured several others in one of the state ...
The conditions were so treacherous the Oregon Department of Transportation closed the highway in both directions between La Grande and Baker City – a stretch of roughly 50 miles between the two ...
The state's largest multiple homicide was the 1887 slaughter of 34 Chinese gold miners at the Hells Canyon Massacre. Other notable multiple homicides include the 2015 Umpqua Community College shooting (ten killed in mass shooting on college campus), the Oregon Museum Tavern shooting (five killed in Ladies' Night shooting), and the 2022 Bend ...
The Oregon State Police began operating on August 1, 1931. The organization was designed by a committee appointed by Governor Julius L. Meier, [5] who made a survey of some of the most successful state law enforcement agencies across North America, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the New Jersey State Police, the Texas Rangers, the Pennsylvania State Police, and others.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Oregon. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 174 law enforcement agencies employing 6,695 sworn police officers, about 177 for each 100,000 residents.
The Oregon State Medical Examiner's Office is still examining the remains. Staggs was last seen on Jan. 29, 2022, at his home in Newport, Oregon, and was reported as a missing person in February 2022.
In 1993, passage of Senate Bill 157 transferred the Emergency Management Division to the Department of State Police, renaming it the "Office of Emergency Management". [9] OEM's authorization and responsibilities are defined in Oregon Revised Statutes, Chapter 401 — Emergency Management and Services. [2] [10]