A month into his new job as Portland's police chief, Mike Reese said Tuesday he wants to transform training from a "fear-based model" -- where officers are taught to think a motorist reaching toward a floorboard is going for a gun -- to one founded on "competency and confidence" -- where a mentally ill man isn't treated like a bank robber.
"That's a mind shift and a culture shift we have to make in the Portland Police Bureau," Reese said Tuesday, speaking to The Oregonian's editorial board after three deadly police shootings this year.
