
Boston has spent millions on no-bid contracts for analysts they claim couldn’t track racist demonstrators
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Written by DAN ATKINSON Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
Boston has spent millions on no-bid contracts for analysts they claim couldn’t track racist demonstrators
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: A+E, Books, Dear Reader
Without First Amendment crusaders to catch our backs, journalists—along with educators, activists, and anybody else whose career or passion often requires that they take unpopular public positions—would be no more useful than a Putin fan zine published by the Kremlin.
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS
Sadly, appeals to reason don’t stop reactionary media outlets like the Boston Herald from telegraphing the falsehoods being spread by ICE and pals.
Written by OLIVIA DENG Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction
“Increased patrols do not protect anyone ... they are actively harmful to poor and oppressed people who are routinely harassed, brutalized, and surveilled by the police in Boston and across the country."
Written by MIKE CRAWFORD Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, The Tokin' Truth
In the midst of the media blitz about stoned driving, one might think that at least some outlets would note another story from a couple weeks ago, “Massachusetts banned from using [alcohol] Breathalyzer test pending reforms at state police agency.”
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
BPD Commissioner William Gross has had a bad few days. Last week, ACLU Massachusetts sued the city of Boston for using “a system—nicknamed the ‘gang packet’—which awards points for choice of clothes and social media selfies, and [is] used to designate ... read more
Written by DANIEL DEFRAIA Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
For now, the BPD wants to help officers more quickly locate and access footage. However, if the program expands beyond its small introduction—about 13 locations, according to BPD records—it could develop into a centralized surveillance network.
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader
Of course not all cops are bad. But the fact that people feel like they have to begin all condemnations of corrupt police with that preamble is a testament to just how many rotten law enforcement officers there are, and to the way that many of them take out their aggression on those who point out the obvious, all evidence of their atrocities be damned.
Written by EOIN HIGGINS Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction
As the debate over immigration increases in urgency, the Massachusetts sheriff and his department are about to enter into a cooperation agreement with ICE, which would operationalize local forces to assist Trump’s regime in deporting undocumented people on the Cape.
Written by BAYNARD WOODS Filed Under: COLUMNS, Democracy in Crisis, NEWS+OPINIONS
The still-anonymous officer is alleged to have “pushed his finger into” a journalist’s rectum and otherwise assaulted him as the arrests were being processed.