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As Boston moves forward with the new Office of Police Accountability and Transparency, while the department is enveloped in yet another major scandal, where are we on police reform in Massachusetts? We take listener calls with Rahsaan Hall, the Director of the Racial Justice Program for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, and Daniel Linskey, former Superintendent-in-Chief of the Boston Police Department and now a managing director in Kroll’s Security Risk Management practice and head of the security firm's Boston office. This segment aired on April 14, 2021.

Boston police officers with batons lined up outside the District B-2 station in Roxbury before a protest on May 31. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Amid calls to defund police, Boston police officers and their advocates have urged for hundreds more cops to be hired. They say that these days they’re stretched thin, forced to work mandatory overtime and facing a more hostile public. Nearly 300 officers in Boston are with the department, but they're not working. And the city is spending millions of dollars each year, to pay both the officer at home — who often earns a paycheck tax-free — and the overti...

I don't know what you make of that, daniel, but that shows you how tough the job is for the cops. >> yeah, exactly, bill. they try to rush in to save lives, to protect the kids who are in the day care across the street, killing range of probably 700-800 yards. they are trying to save people's lives, save their fellow officers lives. they protect the community, and you have community members who are harassing them, making it more dangerous for them. i think it goes directly to the rhetoric we are seeing from people who are not helping, not coming up with solutions, pouring gas on the fire of te...

Commissioner richard ross weighing in on what was going through his mind during that tense standoff. >> i have to admit that i did not think this guy was going to come out alive. we had a more lengthy conversation. some of which ended with his attorney, so it was an unusual circumstance that we took unusual steps. we are about the preservation of life. everyone who was here yesterday played a significant role in bringing this to as positive of our resolution as you can imagine. >> bill: how are you doing, daniel? welcome back. i want to play a little clip of video, responding to how the neighb...

>> bill: "philadelphia shooters should have never been allowed to be on the streets. he had a very long and dangerous record. it looked like he was having a good time after his capture. long sentence. we must be tougher on street crime." >> we have current laws in place. a felony possession of a firearm can have a federal sentence of up to five years plus. we are not seeing those imposed. i also think that we have got to do something, every one of these major mass casualty events has been with an assault rifle. but we have got people who are engaging in violence, and we are not holding them ac...