Ed Davis
'No specific threat to the city of Boston' but keep an eye out
By adamg - 5/2/11 - 4:56 pmPolice Commissioner Ed Davis:
Boston cop who sent racist, misogynist Gates e-mail fired
By adamg - 2/5/10 - 4:19 pmBoston Police announced today that Commissioner Ed Davis has fired Justin Barrett, a police officer who sent out a mass e-mail referring to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates as "a jungle monkey."
In a statement, Davis said:
Is Ed Davis running for office or something?
By adamg - 1/29/10 - 8:05 amCheck out this video, released this week by BPD. I pose the question because normally, the only people to stride purposefully through neighborhoods in slow motion as they listen concernedly to local residents while inspirational music plays are candidates, right?
Ed Repeat Davis: Lying REALLY a fireable offense this time
By Brett - 1/21/10 - 4:01 pmAdam posted earlier about Ed Davis swearing that lying will get you "fired". It may sound familiar.
Circa July 2009:
The words an officer writes down in a police incident report, the statements an officer makes to Internal Affairs investigators, the sworn testimony an officer gives to a grand jury or in court - it has to be truthful or else, Davis says. “The penalty will be termination, no matter the officer’s reputation. First one - and you’re out.’’
Circa today:
Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis will fire any officer convicted of perjury or shown to have lied during internal department investigations
Inquiring minds would like to know what happened to Patrick Wood, author of Jamaica Plain Babies Pushed Into My Cruiser. Also, what happened to Rance Cooley, author of Criminals I Recognize?
Lying now a firing offense at BPD
By adamg - 1/21/10 - 8:49 amAt least when it comes to internal-affairs investigations, Commissioner Ed Davis tells the Globe. Relates to investigations into disgraced cop Kiko Pulido.
Cop who authored racist letter files civil-rights lawsuit against city
By adamg - 8/4/09 - 7:19 amJustin Barrett, who re-ignited controversy over Gatesgate with racist e-mail about Gates, filed a federal lawsuit against the city yesterday. He's demanding unspecified damages for his pain and suffering - and an end to efforts by Police Commissioner Ed Davis and Mayor Tom Menino to bounce him from the force, at least without a hearing.
Boston police commissioner calls Gates to apologize for cop's e-mail
By adamg - 7/30/09 - 1:25 pmTranscript of Police Commissioner Ed Davis's statement at a news conference today on Justin Barrett's e-mail to Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham:
The Boston Police Department is committed to a standard of excellence. Our community rightly has high expectations for us. It is a standard that the community deserves and we are required to meet. Officer Barrett's actions do not comply with those expectations.
Barrett's email was racist and inflammatory. These racist opinions and feelings have no place in this department or in our society and will not be tolerated.
Barrett's comments were directed at Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates. I regret the direct insult toward Professor Gates and have personally reached out to him to apologize for this offense and inform him of the Department's immediate efforts to make this officer accountable. ...
Ed Davis not up for a federal position
By adamg - 3/19/09 - 2:29 pmThe commissioner denies the rumor in a memo to Boston Police:
... This rumor is false. I am personally proud to have the opportunity to lead this extraordinary organization and I look forward to our future successes.
Ed Davis should get his spine back
By adamg - 2/28/09 - 7:02 pmBobby Constantino read the Globe story yesterday that reported Police Commissioner Ed Davis is putting more cops back into plain clothes because underlings felt uniforms hindered their ability to get people to cooperate with them. Constantino replies that a) Davis should remember who's in charge at BPD and b) It's not the uniforms:
... Every officer in the City of Boston knows that people in urban neighborhoods will not talk to them whether they are in uniforms, plainclothes or Halloween costumes. The lack of trust and cooperation has nothing to do with what police are wearing and anyone that tells you so is not being honest. Residents know why police officers don't want to wear uniforms, walk around in their neighborhoods and build relationships. They sense it. They see it. They feel it. And the transparent excuses why reinforce rather than repair feelings of mistrust.
Libertarians make a federal case out of Boston tour-boat ban
By adamg - 2/19/09 - 2:23 pmHere is the complaint filed this week in federal district court against Boston and Police Commissioner Ed Davis by would-be better-than-a-Duck-Boat operator Erroll Tyler of Medford.
In it, Tyler recounts years of struggle with Cambridge and the state Department of Conservation and Recreation (he originally wanted to launch his boats by the Museum of Science; both city and state, he claims, fought him) and, now, the city of Boston, which he says is acting to protect Boston-based tour operators, who essentially have expensive cab-medallion-like license deals, against outsiders.
Tyler's lawyers are from The Institute for Justice, which describes itself as "our nation's only libertarian public interest law firm."
