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Don’s View from the Street

Don DuPay

Politics, law enforcement, Social Justice, and writing

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Deppe, aged 22 after graduating from Brigham Young University, 1970.

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A Changing Lexicon, or a Shortcut to What’s Up!

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Is Defunding the Police the Right Thing to Do?

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Is Defunding the Police the Right Thing to Do?

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    Behind the Badge in River City, 2015. The Tainted Rose: Stories from a Portland Detective, 2023, & Simon's Place: Stories of the Benson Hotel, 2025. I worked with PPB from 1961-1978 as a street cop & homicide detective.

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