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Police make show of force before halftime at Northeastern

By adamg on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 8:00pm

BPD command post tonight. Photo by BPD.

At 7:14, Max Voelker tweeted:

BPD Motorcycle Police as well as NUPD patrolling campus already.

At 7:50 p.m., Brian D'Amico tweeted:

7 K9s outside my building, numerous SWAT teams, another spec ops cycle unit down the road. And that's just around campus.

S. Ryder shows all the police forces represented at Northeastern:

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By anon on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 8:23pm.

Hehe nice, projection screen and a flat screen for the game.

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By anon² on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 1:32am.

Meanwhile, how many assaults happened in DOT? Any murders, Adam?

God, one would hope not. But really, WTF is wrong with Boston?

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By adamg on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 7:48am.

But not really anything particularly out of the ordinary. BPD kept the neighborhoods at regular staffing levels - the show of force in the boozy districts was with people called in off shift and from out of town, supplemented by college police (and no doubt Transit and State Police as well).

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By anon on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 9:53pm.

Imagine...if this kind of power and resources were applied to protecting people in our city's gang hotspots. Or to protect the people mugged and robbed daily while the police tell us to be good little sheeple. Or the daily evening home robberies. Or the reckless drivers who treat red lights like suggestions, crosswalks like duckhunt games, and bikers like nerdy kids in need of being stuffed into lockers.

Let's stop and think about who instigates trouble after an idiotic sports game. Maybe, just maybe, the same assholes who roam our streets every dau making life annoying for everyone around them.

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By anon on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 11:03pm.

That's exactly what these kinds of resources are used for on a daily basis. There are countless articles on the technology that is utilized daily by the Boston Police & civilian analysts in order to combat daily criminal activity involving the entire city. Check your facts.

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By anon² on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 1:35am.

Orly?

2200 cops on duty? Overtime galore? Sections of the city locked down like some dysfunction, dystopian future?

Please. Enlighten us!

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By anon² on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 1:33am.

WTF Mumbles?

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By Will LaTulippe on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 4:27am.

You're the mayor. You won the election. We like you. Just please stop showing us your (expletive.)

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By Lecil on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 11:06pm.

I was reading reports that had the mass of police clearing out RIGHT
after the game ended. Shouldn't they have given the massed some time to settle up with the establishment of their choice before heading out to riot? Or do they figure that people just stay in and drink until closing when the local teams loses?

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By adamg on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 11:50pm.

But, yeah, pretty soon afterwards. Give BPD credit for determining people were sad, but not in a Vancouver rioty kind of way. They started by relieving all the out-of-town cops but left BPD cops at their posts for a bit longer, just in case.

It was a bit different out in Amherst, where Zoo Mass lived up to its name:

Police say about 1,500 students rioted in the southwest residential quad area, leading to more than a half dozen arrests.

Police used flash bombs, horses, and some sort of non-lethal ammunition to subdue the rowdy students.

Apparently Minutemen now consider rioting a rite of passage in their undergraduate careers there.

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By anon² on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 1:48am.

"awww, we don't get to use our new toys?" ?

:/

Umass grad here. Never had a "riot" until we had a female police chief that needed to prove she had "balls".

Take it as you will, but it's the truth. Students hanging around the common area was a "riot" when the Umass campus police decided to go all Victoria Snelgrove on the students.

Luckily we never had a indecent as bad. Luckily.

It's what lead to the real "riots" in 2003, when police illegally were entering off campus homes and really, really pissed off a lot of drunk assholes. Escalation happened on both sides, which only made things exponentially worse for Amherst and the school.

Way to go Barbara O'Connor!

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By anon² on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 1:51am.

Right here: http://www.umass.edu/chronicle/archives/03/05-09/r...

This was the first year that ever had an issue with the "Hobart Hoedown", aka a off campus spring fling. Police decided it needed to stop and showed up in storm trooper gear. With predictable results.

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By Lecil on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 12:08pm.

Umass grad here. Never had a "riot" until we had a female police chief that needed to prove she had "balls".

I'll take that for the sexist comment it clearly is. As noted in another thread, there were "riots" on campus as far back as 1986, so this is not a new phenomenon. Nor limited to that campus. Female police chiefs have no monopoly on over-reaction.

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