Portland police oversight official stepping down

Mary-Beth Baptista, who has served as director of Portland's Independent Police Review Division, is leaving the job in mid-June. Baptista has led the division, the intake center for complaints against Portland police.  Baptista was involved in helping craft changes to the Independent Police Review Division in 2010 that increased the division's police oversight powers. Recently, Baptista was outspoken in her criticism of Police Chief Mike Reese's decision to demote Todd Wyatt, instead of firing him for his inappropriate touching of women employees and escalation of an off-duty road rage encounter