Ex-Portland Cop: Stress led to sex crimes

KENNEWICK — A former Portland, Ore., police officer says stress from an on-duty shooting prompted him to start committing sex crimes.

Ryan Graichen served as a Portland Officer from 1998 to 2006. In 2000, a 71-year-old lawyer suffering from dementia pointed a shotgun at him, and his partner shot the man dead.

The Tri-City Herald reports that in a 49-page, handwritten letter to the Washington state Department of Corrections, Graichen said he couldn’t get the shooting out of his mind, and he became addicted to pornography as he tried to deal with the stress. He wrote that the shooting was the “root cause” of his legal problems. More here.

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