How not to pick a police commissioner
Marty Walsh bungled the process, choosing Dennis A. White as the cityâs top cop without a search or serious background check. The next mayor shouldnât repeat that mistake.
By The Editorial BoardUpdated February 20, 2021, 4:00 a.m.
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Dennis A. White was Boston s second Black police commissioner. The controversy around his appointment is raising issues of race and equity.Jim Davis/Globe Staff
Mayor Martin J. Walshâs rush to replace Police Commissioner William Gross created a mess that never should have happened. It not only casts a cloud on Walshâs legacy as he leaves for the position of labor secretary in the Biden administration but also unfairly clouds the reputation of Dennis A. White, the commissioner named to replace Gross. It should never happen again, on any mayorâs watch.
Feb 18, 2021
It’s been no secret that the new county commission was interested in keeping an eye on County Manager Alan Ours’s job performance. If the rumors flying around are any indication, it looks like they won’t have to much longer.
While I’d heard some rumblings in recent weeks that there were changes coming to the county offices, no fewer than four sources have blown up my phone this afternoon insisting that the county manager is going to be turning in his resignation at tonight’s commission meeting. While the details vary some have said they want to allow him to do it in executive session so no one will know he’s resigned until after March’s SPLOST vote one aspect of the story is represented in every source’s account and is consistent with other rumblings I’d picked up in the recent past: that the final straw was the hiring of Carl Alexander as Special Advisor to the County Commission on the Glynn County Police Department.
Policing Leaders Praise DOJ Nominee Vanita Gupta. One Group Is Smearing Her Anyway.
Biden s nominee for the No. 3 position at the Justice Department is a progressive civil rights lawyer with a lot of support from GOP and law enforcement leaders.
Illustration:Rebecca Zisser/HuffPost; Photo: Getty Images
President Joe Biden’s nominee for the No. 3 position at the Department of Justice is coming under attack from a right-wing group trying to smear her as anti-law enforcement. But a number of conservatives and law enforcement organizations have enthusiastically endorsed her nomination, and even the nation’s largest police union ― which twice endorsed former President Donald Trump ― praised her as someone they looked forward to working with, saying she could “find common ground even when that seemed impossible.”
Latest bid to complete pot legalization drops fines for minors
TRENTON A cleanup bill meant to address concerns voiced by Gov. Phil Murphy that have held up enactment of legislation legalizing and decriminalizing marijuana is due for votes Tuesday and Thursday – though for now it, too, is still being cleaned up.
Two-thirds of voters in November approved a constitutional amendment legalizing adult-use marijuana, effective Jan. 1, but the accompanying enabling legislation that is required still hasn’t been enacted, though it was passed in December. Murphy wants specific provisions addressing marijuana use by minors.
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The latest version of that plan, S3454, was introduced last week. It would impose $50 civil penalties on people ages 18 to 20 for possession or consumption of marijuana and a tiered system for people under age 18 that includes a written warning, a referral to treatment programs or services and, ultimately, $50 fines.