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Opinion: Failed American Dream

Written by JYOTI SINHA AND GOWRI VIJAYAKUMAR Posted March 8, 2023 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Photo courtesy of the South Asian Workers' Center

South Asian Workers’ Center activists call for “a different way of imagining justice” in the wake of CPD killing of Sayed Arif Faisal

Seven years ago, Sayed Arif Faisal immigrated to Somerville from Chittagong in Bangladesh. While he studied computer science at UMass Boston, he worked at CVS. His mother worked at Dunkin Donuts, and his father traveled back and forth to Bangladesh for his job.

On Jan 4, 2023, Arif was in ...  read more

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Bangladeshi community, Cambridge, Cambridge Police Department, criticism, Massachusetts, opinion, police violence, South Asian Workers' Center

CAMBRIDGE POLS, POLICE COMMISSIONER MELT DOWN OVER BLM DEBATE

Written by MARC LEVY Posted June 12, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Police commissioner Branville G. Bard Jr. takes the dais Sunday at a Black Lives Matter protest on Cambridge Common. Photo by Marc Levy, Cambridge Day.

Motion over redirecting $4.1M in police funding causes council to explode in anger, accusations

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Branville G. Bard Jr., Cambridge, Cambridge Police Department, City Council, Debate, defund the police, E. Denise Simmons, Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, Massachusetts, news, Politics, Protest, Quinton Zondervan, slider, Sumbul Siddiqui

CROCK SPOTTER: SURVEILLANCE WITHOUT OVERSIGHT IN CAMBRIDGE

Written by SAUL TANNENBAUM Posted October 16, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Rather than performing its own evaluation, perhaps using its highly regarded Crime Analysis Unit, Cambridge Police met with the Department of Homeland Security’s Urban Areas Security Initiative, the granting agency, and ShotSpotter to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the ShotSpotter.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Cambridge, Cambridge Police Department, CPD, Crime Analysis Unit, Homeland Security, ShotSpotter, surveillance, Urban Areas Initiative

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