The City Council Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice, chaired by Councilor Andrea Campbell, held a hearing on March 2 regarding the implementation of recommendations of the Boston Police Reform Task Force.
Several councilors expressed their dissatisfaction with the fact that no representatives from the Boston Police Department (BPD) or the administration were present at the hearing to provide information or answer questions.
Campbell said that “late in the day” on March 1, the administration told the City Council that no one from the administration would attend the hearing, and provided a letter that included “general updates” regarding the implementation of the police reform bill.
Council Holds Hearing on Implementation of Police Reform Task Force Recommendations
The City Council Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice, chaired by Councilor Andrea Campbell, held a hearing on March 2 regarding the implementation of recommendations of the Boston Police Reform Task Force.
Several councilors expressed their dissatisfaction with the fact that no representatives from the Boston Police Department (BPD) or the administration were present at the hearing to provide information or answer questions.
Campbell said that “late in the day” on March 1, the administration told the City Council that no one from the administration would attend the hearing, and provided a letter that included “general updates” regarding the implementation of the police reform bill.
Ashlee Rezin Garcia / Sun-Times
After the first wave of protests and vandalism that paralyzed downtown Chicago last summer, a top mayoral aide and the police superintendent congratulated each other for how the city’s officers did their jobs.
“Thank you for all your incredible work last night you made Chicago proud,” the aide told police Supt. David Brown, who responded, “officers made the city of Chicago and the police profession proud!!!”
Their email exchange came on May 30, the day after the unrest began on a Friday.
Over the rest of that weekend, though, Brown and his staff were caught off guard by growing civil disturbances downtown and in the city’s neighborhoods, according to a 124-page report released Thursday by the city’s inspector general, Joe Ferguson.
‘Not enough’: Worcester officials vowed to implement changes within its police department; Here’s what the city has done
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Officials in Worcester congregated with hundreds in the community last June to protest police brutality following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Mayor Joseph Petty, City Manager Edward Augustus and Police Chief Steve Sargent participated in the demonstration. They marched to the District Courthouse downtown. They took a knee as a sign of solidarity.
As the calendar now flips to 2021, those actions outside City Hall last June remain highlights of what the city has done in the wake of calls for police reform across the country.
Ald. Anthony Beale’s sketchy plan to convert a vacant house into a community policing center leaves many questions unanswered, but the concept is said to have worked elsewhere.