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Four city councilors seeking a state of emergency declaration in the Mass and Cass zone were incensed when the Wu administration blew off a Tuesday City Council hearing on the matter.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said new leadership at the city’s police department and efforts to clear names that were no longer relevant from its gang database caused her to change her earlier view, and support funding for BPD’s investigative arm.
The Wu administration may not support a state of emergency declaration request for Mass and Cass from the City Council this week, given the Board of Health’s decision against taking such action earlier this month, the Herald has learned.
A highly-publicized overdose death that occurred in a public housing unit with four children present didn’t really cause much of a stir at the Boston Housing Authority, where management says unresponsive person reports are “pretty common.”
Tasking police with tracking firearms sales in a bid to keep our communities safe - a worthy ask. But isn't this the same city council that passed an operating budget in June that would have cut roughly $31 million from the police department?