Massachusetts Police Data Points to Racial Disparities in Arrests Records gathered from local police suggest in some communities, people who are Black or African American were arrested at disproportionately high rates, relative to their overall share of the population, according to a new analysis by NBC10 and students from Boston University’s Justice Media Computational Journalism co-lab. By Melissa Ellin, Kate McGowan and Bzu Shiferaw
Published April 1, 2021 •
Updated on April 1, 2021 at 10:40 pm By Melissa Ellin, Kate McGowan and Bzu Shiferaw
Published April 1, 2021 •
Updated on April 1, 2021 at 10:40 pm
When former Newton resident Tim Duncan and his wife were walking to the grocery store in May, they expected a leisurely stroll. Instead, Duncan, a Black man, found himself staring at a gun.
If there was any time to get by with a little help from friends or therapists it’s during the COVID-19 pandemic.
That was the message of Wednesday night’s virtual town hall, co-hosted by the Cape Cod COVID-19 Response Task Force, titled “Season of Change, Coping During COVID.”
“We need to be physically distant,” said Larry Berkowitz, director of the Riverside Trauma Center. “The last thing we need is to be socially distanced. We have to find ways to support each other.”
He added: “Now’s the time to call that cousin you haven’t talked to in a long time, and call them again next week.”
Harvard cancels class exploring C3 policing methods employed by Springfield police after student outcry
Updated Jan 26, 2021;
Posted Jan 26, 2021
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A course at Harvard University set to examine the effectiveness of the Counter Criminal Continuum (C3) Unit of the Springfield Police Department has been canceled following a student petition.
“Over the last few days, several concerns have been expressed online about a new course – ENG-SCI 298R: Data Fusion in Complex Systems: A Case Study,” wrote Francis J. Doyle III dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences (SEAS). “I am writing to let you know that this course will not be offered this semester.”