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Elected officials rebuke Boston police union tweet targeting City Councilor Andrea Campbell By Travis Andersen Globe Staff,Updated May 3, 2021, 11:39 a.m. Email to a Friend City Councilor Andrea Campbell spoke during a press conference outside Boston City Hall.Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe The Boston Police Department’s largest union and City Councilor Andrea Campbell traded barbs on Twitter last week, with the labor group accusing the mayoral candidate of “enabling criminals,â...

Police transparency in Janey’s hands It’s time to release the report on Boston’s police commissioner and decide his fate. By The Editorial BoardUpdated May 3, 2021, 4:03 p.m. Email to a Friend Memo to Acting Mayor Kim Janey: This shouldn’t be that complicated. No one is blaming Janey for the current mess Marty Walsh left behind at the Boston Police Department. The Walsh administration was hardly a paragon of transparency, and it allowed the BPD wide latitude to keep secrets ...

The Globe files suit against the Boston Police for keeping officer misconduct records secret By Elizabeth Koh Globe Staff,Updated April 30, 2021, 2:55 p.m. Email to a Friend The Boston Globe offices at 53 State St. in Boston.Lane Turner/Globe Staff/file The Boston Globe filed a lawsuit against the Boston Police Department on Friday, alleging it is wrongly keeping secret the internal investigative files of officers accused of domestic violence or sexual assault. The lawsuit, filed in Suffolk Sup...

Campbell Calls For US Attorney to Investigate Boston Police In this file photo, District 4 Councilor Andrea J. Campbell makes her initial mayoral bid pitch in Roxbury. Saraya Wintersmith Andrea Campbell, a mayoral candidate and the head of the Boston City Council’s public safety committee, is calling for the U.S Attorney’s Office to investigate how the Boston Police Department handled the case of Patrick M. Rose Sr., a former officer and union head now facing dozens of child sexual as...

"A murderer has been found guilty of his crime. That should not be cause for celebration. The arrival of justice should be expected, not greeted with a sense of palpable relief. And yet, in the case of Derek Chauvin, justice had been delayed or excused in so many other cases that Tuesday’s guilty verdict had to serve as a reminder that no one is above the law — something we should not need to be reminded of. Something that should be expected. The cause now is to make sure that it is...

Editorial Roundup: Florida Recent editorials from Florida newspapers: ___ April 21 The South Florida Sun Sentinel on the guilty verdict against Derek Chauvin in George Floyd’s killing: A murderer has been found guilty of his crime. That should not be cause for celebration. The arrival of justice should be expected, not greeted with a sense of palpable relief. And yet, in the case of Derek Chauvin, justice had been delayed or excused in so many other cases that Tuesday’s guilty verdict had t...

Boston Police Documents Show Then Commissioner Knew Of Sex Charge Against Patrick Rose In 1996 Patrick Rose covers his face during his arraignment at Boston Municipal Court on Aug. 13, 2020. Boston Globe/Boston Globe via Getty Images Share Rose BPD File Update 4/21/21 11:49am : After this story published last night, former Boston Police Commissioner Paul F. Evans and former BPD Superintendent Ann Marie Doherty issued a statement, saying the City Hall release of about a dozen pages of the Patric...

In a Changing Boston, a New Mayor Challenges the Police Three weeks into her tenure as Boston’s acting mayor, Kim Janey has done something her predecessor did not: order the police to release documents about a leader accused of sexual abuse. Kim Janey has moved deliberately to build her political profile, taking her place on the growing list of Black women running major U.S. cities. Credit...Philip Keith for The New York Times April 17, 2021, 3:00 a.m. ET BOSTON — Three weeks after her swea...

(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To This Post) Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what’s goin’ down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin’ gets done, and where the sun comes rising over that little Minnesota town. We begin in the Commonwealth (God save it!), where the Boston Police Department suddenly is revealed to have more in common with the Archdiocese of Boston than employing a lot of its parishioners. From the Janey’s announcement followed a ...

It’s not clear how long the hiatus will be, but federal officials say it could last weeks. Massachusetts was expecting a smaller shipment of the one-shot vaccines already, but yesterday’s announcement upended vaccine appointments all over the state. While Baker has pitched the J&J vaccine as an avenue to vaccinate people more quickly — compared to its two-shot counterparts — this pause could stretch the state’s in-demand vaccine supply even further, as more people try to book their ...