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PUFF POLICE: CONTRARY TO COMMISSIONER’S CLAIMS, BPD MASTURBATED BY MEDIA

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted November 2, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm

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Boston Police Department Commissioner William Evans made a familiar claim last week. As he’s done before, during one of his regular rap sessions with Jim Braude and Margery Eagan on their WGBH show Boston Public Radio, Evans said the media unfairly focuses on BPD fumbles. “You don’t hear about the good things,” the commissioner argued.

 

Though Jim and Margery are reluctant to call him on it, Evans is completely full of shit. Or he doesn’t have the internet. One or the other. To show the extent to which his department is actually showered with positive press, we plugged “Boston Police Department” into the Google machine, and parsed all of the puffery from just October into four distinct categories.

 

JOB WELL DONE

 

Boston Police subdue man with BB gun

The Boston Globe (Oct 17, 2015)

 

Violent crime in Boston on decline since previous year

Daily Free Press (Oct 15, 2015)

 

Boston Police found a trove of illegal dirt bikes in Dorchester

Boston.com (Oct 24, 2015)

 

Police rescue man who fell off Boston pier early Saturday

The Boston Globe (Oct 26, 2015)

 

Boston Man Charged In Long-Unsolved Slaying Of Tufts Grad

CBS Local (Oct 1, 2015‎)

 

Police impound illegal dirt bikes in Dorchester

My Fox Boston (Oct 24, 2015‎)

 

HISTORIC BPD ACHIEVEMENTS IN COMMUNITY POLICING

 

Boston police officer targets driver just to tell him how great his license plate is

Bizpac Review (Oct 3, 2015)

 

Boston Police pulled this man over for a very heartwarming reason

BDCwire (Oct 2, 2015)

 

Boston Officer Stops Man to Praise His License Plate

KFDX (Oct 2, 2015‎)

 

The amazing reason a local man was pulled over by a Boston Police officer

My Fox Boston (Oct 2, 2015)

 

Walk for Peace:East Boston’s Elected Officials Joined the Boston Police Department’s Top Brass to Show Support for Safe Communities

Eastie Times (Oct 22, 2015)

 

Community walks credited with building rapport

The Boston Globe (Oct 20, 2015)

 

City of Boston Selects 11 Locals for New Artist-in-Residence Program

Boston Magazine (Oct 23, 2015)

 

Murphy school kids meet the ‘Humans Behind the Badges’

Dorchester Reporter (Oct 1, 2015)

 

THAT POLICE DOG SURE IS CUTE

 

Tuco the K9 now in training with Boston Police Department

WHDH-TV (Oct 7, 2015)

 

Boston Police K-9 Finally Grows Into Oversized Vest

CBS Local (Oct 7, 2015)

 

Viral Boston police pup getting ready for duty

Boston.com (Oct 7, 2015)

 

Boston Police K-9 Growing Quickly

NECN (Oct 11, 2015)

 

Puppy Trying On Boston Police Department K-9 Vest Is Criminally Cute

The Huffington Post (Oct 28, 2015)

 

HOW INNOVATIVE!

Boston Police Commissioner Hopes To Test Body Cameras By April

WGBH (Oct 28, 2015)

 

Guns taken off Boston streets are turned into manhole covers

MassLive.com (Oct 12, 2015)

 

Mayor, police commissioner to share policing tactics at DC summit

The Boston Globe (Oct 6, 2015)

 

CHRIS FARAONE

A Queens, NY native who came to New England in 2004 to earn his MA in journalism at Boston University, Chris Faraone is the editor and co-publisher of DigBoston and a co-founder of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. He has published several books including 99 Nights with the 99 Percent, and has written liner notes for hip-hop gods including Cypress Hill, Pete Rock, Nas, and various members of the Wu-Tang Clan.

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