I think everyone at Occupywhatever should have their faces on Facebook.  That way if anything they do harms us in any way we can hunt them down and hold them accountable. 

You do want accountability, right?

There is some precedent to police departments posting mugshots on a police department website, but the fact that it’s Facebook just feels weird.

I get what you mean, but it is an official Portland Police Bureau website. Officially sanctioned by the City of Portland ‘n’ everything. Otherwise it wouldn’t exist.

So if you find this disturbing, probably your best option is to bitch to the guy who (allegedly) runs the Portland Police Bureau, and that would be Sam Adams.

Seems like you have to be a bit of a sadist in order to be a cop. I’m sure there’s more than a few cops who thought of the impact on the future employment prospects of the people whose pictures they posted, and chuckled.

(By the way, in case there’s any confusion, the jail in downtown Portland is run by the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, aka the cops in the green uniforms, not the Portland Police, aka the cops in the blue uniforms. So when you search for the mug shots of people booked into jail in Portland, you’re not going to a web site run by Portland Police.)

Yes yes that’s idealism speaking and realisticly what HR department will care why just that your face shows up on an arrest sheet. Still, let me indulge in the silly notion you might get hired BECAUSE you were part of the #Occupytogether movement.

Facebook mugshots… the new town stocks?

1. The county site is taxpayer supported and on budget. Facebook is a private corporation with terms of service. Portland Police is expending additional resources to maintain a Facebook site. Taxpayers / citizens have little visibility into the reasons behind this Facebook page or how much it is costing to maintain.

2. Portland Police are selecting which mugshots they post to Facebook and which ones they don’t. How they choose is not openly published.

I’d consider it a badge of honour if my photo were up there in this hall of fame. Any future employer who wouldn’t hire me because I was expressing my first amendment rights in peaceful assembly is an asshole that doesn’t deserve my skills anyway.

There may come a day when making smoothies at the health food store isn’t fulfilling your career ambitions anymore.

As to your “If you don’t want people to know you’ve been arrested, don’t get arrested.” response:
That’s exactly what the PD is trying to instill in everyone. Don’t want to get arrested? Don’t do anything we don’t want you to do, little puppets.

Something like, “The following police officers were on-duty at $LOCATION arresting OWS protestors:  John Doe [pic] [link], James Roe [pic] [link], etc., etc.”  would be perfectly fine.

Something like “These douchebags were the ones doing this crap, man! Someone should find out where they live, knowhutImean? ….”  that crosses the line to inciting harassment, etc.

If I were to start posting pictures of the cops that are arresting peaceful protestors, I wonder how the police would react?And would you agree that I should be able to do do that, and it wouldn’t be considered harassing?  Since it’s public record, and all.

Again, as has been mentioned, oh, a million times:  Just because something CAN be done, does not mean it SHOULD be done, nor does it mean it’s right.You have a hard time with that concept, don’t you?

I won’t pretend to know what their motivations might be, but as I said earlier – the Occupy protestors aren’t dangerous criminals running amok in the City Of Roses.