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New Documents Reveal Extent, Cost Of BPD’s Secret Surveillance Strategy

Written by DAN ATKINSON Posted July 11, 2022 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

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACLU, Boston Police, BPD, BRIC, Centra, demonstration, DHS, features, natsec, news, news to us, Protest, surveillance

ME + YOU + THE ACLU

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted February 25, 2020 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.

Filed Under: A+E, Books, Dear Reader Tagged With: ACLU, books, Civil Rights, David Cole, Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases, First Amendment, Michael Chabon, Neil Gaiman, social justice, Trump, Ulysses

EDITORIAL: RESIST ICE & BORDER PATROL IMMIGRATION RAIDS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted February 17, 2020 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.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACLU, Border Patrol, Boston Somerville, DigBoston, editorial, ice, immigration, Jason Pramas, Marian Ryan, Rachael Rollins, sanctuary cities, SWAT, Trump

FLAW PATROL: HOW LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT USES OVERSEAS THREATS TO MILK OVERTIME

Written by OLIVIA DENG Posted January 29, 2020 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."

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: ACLU, Alex Marthews, Boston Police Department, Boston Research Intelligence Center, BPD, BRIC, details, Digital Fourth, fusion centers, immigration, iran, Muslims, overtime, police accountability, racial profiling, see something say something, surveillance

IMPAIRED LAWMAKING: BAKER, DELEO, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT LOBBY FOR NEW CANNABIS OUI LAWS

Written by MIKE CRAWFORD Posted January 29, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, The Tokin' Truth

Jesse Sugarmann, We Build Excitement (stills), 2013 digital video. Part of the Museum of Capitalism exhibition.

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.”

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, The Tokin' Truth Tagged With: #mapoli, ACLU, cannabis, Cannabis Control Commission, CCC, courts, driving, dui, lawsuits, Marijuana, Mass, Massachusetts, NHTSA, OUI

GROSS POINTS BLANK: BOSTON’S TOP COP SHOULD THINK TWICE BEFORE BASHING THE ACLU

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 27, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Mayor Walsh announcing William Gross as new police commissioner from July 2018 via City of Boston

 

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

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACLU, Apparent Horizon, BPD, Column, cops, database, gang, Jason Pramas, news, Police, Politics, racial profiling, report

CAUGHT ON CAM-SHARE: BPD SEEKS ACCESS TO PRIVATE SECURITY CAMERAS, EXPERIMENTS WITH NEW SURVEILLANCE NETWORK

Written by DANIEL DEFRAIA Posted March 21, 2018 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.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACLU, Big Brother, Boston, Boston Police Department, BPD, cameras, deputizing cameras, Dorchester, Dorchester Reporter, spying, surveillance

WHAT PEOPLE (DON’T) TALK ABOUT WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT POLICE IN BOSTON

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted March 8, 2018 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.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader Tagged With: ACLU, Boston, BPD, Police, stop and frisk

CAPE FEAR: SHERIFF SIDES WITH TRUMP AND ICE, AGAINST CONSTITUENTS AND IMMIGRANTS

Written by EOIN HIGGINS Posted February 6, 2018 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.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: 287(g), ACLU, Barnstable, Cape Cod, cooperation, deportation, ice, immigration, jails, Massachusetts, raids, Sheriff James Cummings, Trump

THEY PEPPER-SPRAYED A 10-YR-OLD

Written by BAYNARD WOODS Posted January 8, 2018 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.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Democracy in Crisis, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 2018, ACLU, Democracy in Crisis, Donald Trump, Impeachment, Impeachment March, J20, people s march, Protest, Trump, Washington

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