Quarterly Report – Q4 2025

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 substantial compliance.

View documents about the monitoring plan and the Monitor's compliance reports:https://portlandpolicemonitor.com/documents/

Five investigations from 2025 Q4 remain open and under 180 days. One investigation from 2025 Q3 was completed in under 180 days and one was closed after 180 days.

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 2025 Q1. These numbers may change as open investigations are completed.

New Officer-Involved Shootings and In-Custody Deaths

There were no officer-involved shootings or in-custody deaths during the fourth quarter of 2025. The Bureau reported one non-fatal application of deadly force.

On November 5^th, officers located Robert D. Hatley after responding to community member reports of an unclothed man with a handgun. Officers used a police vehicle to strike Hatley after hearing a shot fired and then used a taser to take him into custody.

Updates and Publications

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

View the dashboard: www.portland.gov/ipr/public-data

IPR released an external review of deadly force investigations involving Portland Police Bureau officers. The review was conducted by outside experts from the Office of Independent Review Group (OIR Group) and examines officer-involved shootings and in-custody deaths that occurred between 2019 and 2022.

View this and previous OIR Group reports on IPR's website.