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LAW ENFORCEMENT LIMBO

Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Posted June 1, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Officers reject inevitable basic reforms, reality, from BPD to DOC to Cape Cod

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: George Floyd, Homeland Security, Police, reform

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS WOULD STRUGGLE UNDER PROPOSED DHS RULES

Written by WENJING DING AND HONGYU LIU Posted December 12, 2020 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Orwellian runaround

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: Boston, DHS, emerson college, Homeland Security, international, Joe Biden, justice, Massachusetts, Protest, student, tufts university, visa

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

BORDER DASH: FEARING DEPORTATION, HAITIANS FLEE THE US FOR CANADA

Written by KAREN HOUPPERT Posted September 12, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Although it has not gotten as much attention as the repeal of DACA, the promised repeal of another protection to immigrants—the Temporary Protected Status, offered by Barack Obama to Haitian immigrants following the 2010 earthquake—has sent LeFranc and more than 5,000 others to seek asylum in Canada since Aug. 1.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: DACA, Donald Trump, French-speaking, Haiti, Hemmingford, Homeland Security, Quebec, US

THE DEFENSE OF OFFENSE: DOCUMENTS REVEAL ‘JUSTIFICATION’ FOR MASS POLICE MILITARIZATION

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted August 12, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The public has a brand new window into excessive defense spending

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACLU, Bill Evans, Black Lives Matter, Boston Police Department, BPD, Chris Faraone, Commissioner William Evans, DHS, DigBoston, Eric Garner, FEMA, Homeland Security, Kade Crockford, Michael Brown

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