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by Mercury staff
There were "significant gaps in information gathering" after the death of James Chasse Jr. at the hands of Portland police in 2006, according to an independent audit released Friday, July 23. The city auditor took the unprecedented step of commissioning an outside evaluation of the incident, given the case's notoriety: "The immediacy of the public's interest in this case was clear and compelling," says Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade. Now that civil litigations have been settled (with the city paying $1.6 million…
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