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Between 1982 and 1983, a group of eight police officers, firefighters and regular civilians set between 163 and 260 fires in the city of Boston, Massachusetts and nine surrounding towns and cities to protest Proposition 2½, hoping to revert the budget cuts that led to hundreds of police officers and firefighters being laid off. Proposition 2½ ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2018 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA), [1] the state had 374 law enforcement agencies employing 19,578 personnel (27,489 personnel, total, including sworn and non-sworn positions), with an average of 284 sworn personnel per 100,000 ...
The BPPA was established in 1965, in response to new collective bargaining laws that allowed municipal employees to unionize (Mass. Gen. L. c. 149, §§ 178G-N). [1] As described by the association's attorney, its founding purposes was "to protect the patrolmen against widespread charges of police brutality and to hear civilian complaints." [2]
According to reporting from Federal News Network, the raise is part of set increases proposed throughout the year. According to the executive order, the 2% increase is an average, as raises for ...
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The White House Office of Personnel Management issued a directive Friday to raise minimum wage to $15 for many civilian government employees. The change went into effect on Sunday, Jan. 30. The...
In 1946, Jordan joined the Boston Police Department as a traffic patrol officer. In 1950 he became a detective. [2] During the 1950s and 60s he was a member of "Slattery's Raiders", a group of officers under the command of Captain John J. Slattery, Jr. that was formed to combat vice and street crime in Boston. [3]
White, Jonathan R. "Violence during the 1919 Boston police strike: An analysis of the crime control myth." Criminal Justice Review 13.2 (1988): 61-68. Zibel, Howard J. "The Role of Calvin Coolidge in the Boston Police Strike of 1919," Industrial and Labor Relations Forum 6, no. 3 (November 1969): 299-318