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Quarterly Report – Q3 2025

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Investigation Timeliness

The Settlement Agreement with the United States Department of Justice requires investigations into police misconduct be completed in 180 days. IPR has smaller goals within the 180 days for each stage of an investigation.

The group that previously evaluated compliance with the Settlement Agreement deemed the City in substantial compliance with the timeliness requirement in their report on the third quarter of 2023.

View past evaluations of the City's compliance with the Settlement Agreement:https://www.portlandcocl.com/reports

In 2024, the City and the Department of Justice jointly requested the appointment of an Independent Monitor. The Independent Monitor team, MPS & Associates, is now responsible for monitoring compliance with the Settlement Agreement. The City moved into a self-monitoring phase for the timeliness requirement after a period of substantial compliance. The Monitor's most recent report deems the City's self-monitoring plan in partial compliance. View documents about the monitoring plan and the Monitor's compliance reports:https://portlandpolicemonitor.com/documents/

Two investigations from 2025 Q3 remain open and under 180 days. Two investigations from 2025 Q2 were completed in under 180 days and two were closed after 180 days.

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Each stage of an investigation has its own timeliness goal. IPR is responsible for the intake investigation (14 day goal) and retains some cases for full investigation (70 day goal). The graph showing intake medians includes expanded intake stages for cases that required additional time to complete. The median days taken to complete an intake investigation slightly exceeded 14 in 2025 Q2. The median days taken to complete a full investigation slightly exceeded 70 days in 2024 Q1 and 2025 Q1. These numbers may change as open investigations are completed. 

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New Officer-Involved Shootings and In-Custody Deaths

There was one officer-involved shooting during the third quarter of 2025.

Bryan Velasco-Ruelas was shot on September 20th, 2025 during an exchange of gunfire with officers during a traffic stop.

Updates and Publications

IPR published an interactive dashboard that shows complaints, allegations, findings, and officer-involved shooting data.

View the dashboard:

www.portland.gov/ipr/public-data

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