Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
He pointed to the fact that the number of minority uniformed officers increased from 5 to 15 percent during his tenure as proof that he was not insensitive to minorities. [5] In 1983, the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission charged Jordan and White with using Proposition 2 1/2 "as a cover" to lay off 284 patrolmen in 1981. Jordan disputed ...
The Boston Police Department has approximately 2,015 officers and 808 civilian personnel, with patrol services covering an area of 89.6 mi 2 (232.1 km 2) and a population of 617,594. Like all City of Boston departments, the BPD requires all employed officers hired since 1995 to live within Boston city-limits.
Sworn personnel would increase from 280 per 100,000 state residents to 284 per 100,000 residents (an increase of 4 per 100,000 or 1.4%). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] As of 2022, Massachusetts ranked 26th out of 50 in violent crime rates, ranked ranked 5th-lowest (45th out of 50) in homicide rates, and was the ranked second-lowest (48th out of 50) in property ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
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]
Boston police arrested 27 people in protests surrounding a "Free Speech" rally, Police Commissioner William Evans told reporters on Saturday.
Boston has reached a $2.4 million settlement with a high ranking female police commander who accused the department of gender discrimination, her lawyer said Wednesday. Beth Donovan, the first ...
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.