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CURRENT STREET EDITION

DIG 23.02 – 1/28/21

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INBOX: GROUP CALLS FOR BIDEN TO ABOLISH POLICE MILITARIZATION PROGRAM

Written by DIG STAFF Posted February 25, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“The gratuitous militarization of police forces across the United States facilitated by this program has helped to turn these agencies into brutal weapons of repression.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Joe Biden, militarization, Police, racial justice

SPECIAL FEATURE ON THE MASS STATE POLICE: TROOPER WILSON’S WAR

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted February 15, 2021 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

The story of a former Massachusetts statie whose career was “submarined”—told here 20 years later—reflects the struggles progressive and Black cops still face in a corrupt department that eschews reform

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: features, Mass State Police, news, news to us, Police, police reform

DOES THE FORMER BPD COMMISSIONER EVEN LIVE IN BOSTON?

Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Posted January 28, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Gross, rumored as mayoral candidate, didn’t register to vote in Hub until October 2019

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 2021 mayoral race, bospoli, Boston, BPD, news, news to us, Police

BIG NEWS: SJC RULES MASS AGENCIES CAN’T WITHHOLD FEDERAL RECORDS

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted January 6, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“If Massachusetts agencies could skirt the public records law by characterizing the receipt of documents as a loan, that would have been [an] invitation to a substantial amount of mischief.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: news, news to us, Police, public records

VIDEO: COP WHO BRAGGED THAT HE HIT PROTESTERS SHOWS HOW BAD APPLES THRIVE IN BOSTON

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 2, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

The woman later told police that he assaulted her, while “McHale had maintained that any contact between himself and the woman was consensual.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Boston, Boston Police, George Floyd, lawsuits, news, news to us, Police, police body cameras, police brutality, police reform, protests

TRUMP NUTS, COPS, COUNTER-PROTESTERS, POLITICAL PERFORMERS CLASH IN COPLEY

Written by KEIKO HIROMI Posted October 19, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Those who follow conservative media may have already viewed bogus reports from the scene written by people who don’t understand (or care to understand) political theater or satire.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, cops, Police, protests, Trump

PHOTO RECAP: HUNDREDS IN BOSTON MARCH FOR JUSTICE IN BREONNA TAYLOR CASE

Written by DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN Posted September 29, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Breonna Taylor, news, news to us, Police, police violence

NO LEGAL JUSTICE WITHOUT ECONOMIC JUSTICE

Written by BILL SHELTON Posted September 15, 2020 Filed Under: Essay, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Income Inequality. Photo by mSeattle CC-BY-2.0.

Bridging the chasm between law enforcement and justice, part 4

Filed Under: Essay, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: criticism, history, justice, law enforcement, opinion, Police, sociology

THE HISTORICAL PURPOSE OF POLICING

Written by BILL SHELTON Posted August 6, 2020 Filed Under: Essay, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Bridging the chasm between law enforcement and justice, Part 3

Filed Under: Essay, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: criticism, history, justice, law enforcement, opinion, Police, slider, sociology

VIDEO: #BLACKLIVESMATTER BOSTON MARCHES TO #SAYHERNAME

Written by GINO CANELLA Posted July 6, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Image by Gino Canella

In addition to celebrating Black women, BLM Boston was also gathering to demand the city of Boston redirect the $40.1 million that is budgeted for policing into schools and resources that will benefit the community.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Boston, march, Massachusetts, Police, Protest, racism, Say Her Name, slider, Video, violence, Women

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