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By adamg - 3/18/24 - 10:07 pm

A Boston Police officer wearing a ballistic vest was shot outside 80 Esmond St. around 9:45 p.m., a couple minutes after he arrived with other officers to investigate a report of a man skulking around with a gun. Read more.

By adamg - 3/16/24 - 10:37 am

A federal jury yesterday convicted the one-time head of the Boston Police evidence warehouse in Hyde Park of helping to run a long running overtime scam in which officers would routinely put in for overtime they never worked. Read more.

By adamg - 12/20/23 - 11:28 am
Wu and Joey Bennett hug

Wu and Bennett's nephew, Joey, hug as other Bennett familiy members and Alan Swanson look on.

Mayor Wu and Police Commissioner Michael Cox today apologized to Willie Bennett and Alan Swanson, who were investigated and even arrested for supposedly killing Carol Stuart when, in fact, it was her husband Charles who shot her after they left a childbirth class at Brigham and Women's Hospital on Oct. 23, 1989. Read more.

By adamg - 12/14/23 - 9:46 pm

Police Commissioner Michael Cox has declined to issue the oral reprimand recommended by the Civilian Review Board for a disparaging comment one of his officers left on a Facebook post by the Grafton Police Department honoring one of its own officers during Women's History Month this past March. Read more.

By adamg - 12/13/23 - 1:42 pm
Louijeune speaks against Homeland Security grant

Louijeune explains her votes.

The City Council today rejected an anti-terrorism grant from the federal Department of Homeland Security when it deadlocked, 6-6, on accepting the grant. Read more.

By adamg - 12/10/23 - 12:23 pm
Photos of Fisher via FBI

Three faces of Fisher in DC, one with cap with Pats, Bruins and Celtics logos, via FBI.

A federal judge in Washington has set a Feb. 1 hearing at which Joseph Fisher, a retired Boston Police canine officer, is expected to plead guilty to both felony and misdemeanor charges for bursting into the Capitol on Jan. 6 and using a chair to attack a Capitol Police officer who was pursuing one of Fisher's fellow attempted coup-makers. Read more.

By adamg - 11/17/23 - 12:00 pm

Lawyers for Civil Rights yesterday announced a settlement in an 18-year legal battle over tests or hair that Boston Police used to use to check for drug use that resulted in numerous false positives for Blacks. Read more.

By adamg - 10/4/23 - 3:55 pm
Michael Flaherty

Animated Michael Flaherty moves for grants.

The Boston City Council today approved acceptance of a total of $3.4 million in federal grants for the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, (BRIC) a BPD unit that collects data and video used to fight crime and terrorism - and which maintains a database of Boston residents accused of being members of local gangs. Read more.

By adamg - 9/13/23 - 1:01 pm
Flaherty calls for acceptance of grant

Flaherty calls for acceptance of grant.

Article corrected. The council did not actually reject the grant, but instead rejected voting on it immediately.

By a 7-5 vote, the Boston City Council rejected an attempt by Councilor Michael Flaherty (at large) to immediately approve $2.55 million in federal grants to bolster the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, overseen by BPD - the same grant the council voted to reject in 2021 after police refused to reconsider its gang database and how it shares data with outside law-enforcement agencies. Read more.

By adamg - 9/5/23 - 2:49 pm

Four Bostonians, joined by three gun groups, last week sued Police Commissioner Michael Cox over what they say are excessive delays in processing their license-to-carry applications. Read more.

By adamg - 7/18/23 - 9:41 pm
bpdnews.com in 2006

Screen capture via Wayback Machine.

BPD News, up since at least 2006 with a URL that was splashed on every Boston police cruiser, is no more. The city today switched on police.boston.gov, which is all mobile-friendly and stuff and which de-emphasizes arrest reports, BOLOs and crime stats in favor of a more 21st-century feeling series of pages about the department itself. Don't worry, the old BPDnews news is still there, but you'll have to click to get to it.

By adamg - 6/15/23 - 3:55 pm

The Dorchester Reporter updates us on the council's Wednesday vote.

By adamg - 6/9/23 - 10:33 pm

Stanley Staco and Live Boston report a BPD officer was shot in the back and the foot Cedric Street near Langdon Street around 9:15 p.m. One suspect was taken into custody on the roof of the three-story industrial building there. Read more.

By adamg - 5/23/23 - 9:58 pm

Boston Police report that Lt. John Earley was arrested for OUI and negligent driving in Walpole on Sunday. The BPD Bureau of Professional Standards has started an investigation, police say.

Earley, who lives in Walpole, joined the Boston force in 1998.

Innocent, etc.

By adamg - 5/15/23 - 9:40 pm

The Dig reports the state Attorney General's office has begun looking at possible racial disparities in the way the BPD Youth Violence Strike Force - the gang unit - makes stops and frisks people, including the use of a controversial gang database. Read more.

By adamg - 4/27/23 - 2:38 pm

The Globe reports a federal jury today acquitted four current and former officers at the Boston Police evidence warehouse in Hyde Park on wire-fraud charges related to overtime payments.

The Globe quoted lawyers for the four that there was nothing wrong with what they did because it was long a practice approved by BPD administrators.

By adamg - 4/6/23 - 11:07 am

The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld the use of police body cameras to record voluntary statements of possible crime victims, in a case in which a man who was ordered back to jail on a probation violation in part because of those statements argued they violated the state ban on wiretapping - even though he was not involved in the recording. Read more.

By adamg - 3/30/23 - 2:09 pm
Fisher

Three faces of Fisher in DC, one with cap with Pats, Bruins and Celtics logos, via FBI.

The FBI today arrested a former Boston cop on charges he didn't just bust into the Capitol with fellow coupsters on Jan. 6, he rammed a chair into a police officer running after a pepper-spraying member of Y'all Queda, then began beating the cop, only the cop got the better of him and knocked him to the ground. Read more.

By adamg - 3/30/23 - 11:35 am

The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld the city of Boston's 2021 order requiring municipal workers to get vaccinated against Covid-19, saying public-health needs outweighed the collective-bargaining rights of the police and fire unions that sued over the policy. Read more.

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