1. Family of James Chasse, Jr.*                         $1,600,000.00          7/28/10           9/17/06          Use of force (leading to death)
   
2. Protestors August 2002&May 2003              $845,000.00          12/1/04          8/22/02          Use of force (pepper spray)
   
3. Family of Damon Lowery                                 $600,000.00          6/25/05          12/5/99          Use of force (leading to death)
   
4. Family of Raymond Gwerder                          $500,000.00          11/14/07          11/4/05          Shooting (died)
   
5. Barbara& Ted Vickers, Estate of Dickie Dow       $380,000.00          3/27/02          10/19/98          Wrongful death/Dickie Dow
   
6. Family of James Jahar Perez*                          $350,359.00           9/3/08           3/28/04          Shooting (died)
   
7. Daniel Thomas**                                             $311,000.00    3/14/08&9/28/04    7/11/03          Use of force
   
8. Bruce Browne                                                  $200,895.00          4/1/03              7/11/01          Shooting (lived)
   
9. Family of Dennis Young*                              $200,000.00           10/8/08           1/4/06          Shooting (died)
   
10. Maria-Janeth Rodriguez-Sanchez                    $177,161.41    12/2/05&8/3/05     4/8/03          Use of force
    
11. Harold Hammick, Ri'Chard Booth & Alex Clay*       $175,000.00 (jury)     9/23/09     3/17/07           Mistreatment (pointing guns and more)
    
12. Family of Peter Gilbaugh*                                $150,000.00          10/1/02          12/31/98          Shooting (died)
    
13. Barbara Weich                                                    $150,000.00          1/2/08             5/29/05          Use of force (broken arm)
    
14. Eunice Crowder                                                  $145,000.00          4/23/04          6/9/03          Use of force (including Taser)
    
15. Chaz Miller                                                       $133,926.06         6/21/06          4/21/03          Use of Force/wrong person arrested
    
16. Gerald Gratton                                                  $118,000.00          4/4/94          7/19/93          Shooting (lived)
    
17. Two women victims of Ofcr John Wood*       $105,000.00           2/25/09           7/21/06          Use of force (broken arm)
    
18. Ivory Spann                                                        $100,056.79              4/7/97          6/6/93          Force/Baton hits
    
19. Family of Duane Anthony Shaw                        $100,000.00          10/25/95          9/14/93          Shooting (died)
    
20. Johnny Senteno                                                   $96,975.23          12/30/94          8/21/93          Use of force/Arm broken by projectile
    
21. Janice M Aichele (deceased)                                 $90,000.00          11/7/96          10/6/94          Off-duty shooting (murder/suicide)
    
22. Heather Bissell                                                    $88,385.83    9/23/05&8/17/05     4/30/03          Use of force/arrest
    
23. Dalebert V Acelar and 3 others                           $87,000.00          6/16/99          10/17/97          Unlawful search/detention
    
24. Shei'Meka Newmann*                                     $82,000.00     4/14/11 (jury)       2/13/09           Use of force, false arrest, malicious prosecution
    
25. Hung Mingh Tran*                                           $81,766.00          1/30/11           11/24/07          Use of force (Taser)
    

     Total                                               $6,867,525.32

This chart should be published regularly by the City to let people know what police misconduct is costing the people of Portland. Sure, they can argue that in cases that were settled out of court they never admitted wrongdoing, but if they felt they had a sure chance to win, they'd defend their officers. The $6.8 million total for just these 25 cases does not include another $2.7 million paid out to over 200 other people from 1993-2011. With an average of at least $500,000 per year, the City could be paying for several civilian investigators to staff an independent police review board. Perhaps with ongoing external monitoring, the frequency of such cases would decline.

As many cases after 2007 have not gone through the courts yet, we can compare the average annual totals for incidents between 1993 and 2001 ($382,000) and from 2002-June 2011 ($636,000)***** and see that the advent or Portland's "Independent" Police Review Division in 2002 has done little to slow the lawsuits or the misconduct that generates them, and in fact it may be that more people are turning to the courts rather than using the civilian complaint system (see PPR #44, May 2008).

--16 of the top 25 are incidents that occurred since 2002, when the IPR began operating; 8 of the top 25 are payments made since January 2008.

--Some of the amounts shown include the City's legal expenses, making them appear higher than the settlements alone. But since this expense comes back to you, the taxpayer, we feel all expenses should be included when known. For example, Heather Bissell's case settled for $50,000 but the figure above includes $38,000+ in city expenses.