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OH, CRUEL WORLD!
As a Boston Resident, I factor a certain amount of money into my budget for parking tickets each year. But having a coffee in Brighton Center watching a fat Boston Police officer illegally park his...
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GALLERY: ASSAULT ON THE SECOND ENCAMPMENT
Citing the need for more space, members of the #OccupyBoston movement began setting up a new encampment, adjacent to the original in Dewey Square. On the night of Monday, Oct. 10, police gave the...
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OCCUPY BOSTON ROUNDTABLE
Last Wednesday, Suffolk Law School hosted a roundtable (rectangular-table, actually) event called “Policing the Occupy Protests: How Well Did the Cities Respond?” Suffolk’s Rappaport Center For Law and...
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BEAN COUNTER: VOLUME 14, ISSUE 30
BPD officers have received over 400 hours of overtime pay for court appearances never requested by prosecutors, according to a Globe analysis. Worse, officers refused to even try to look busy when...
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#OCCUPYBOSTON NOW!
Feature image by Michael Nusbaum. Take Back Boston: Cover Photo by Shawn Musgrave Fotobom: Take Back Boston VIDEO: Boston Police Attack Veterans for Peace by @haveyoumetter for @DigBoston...
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SOAP BOX: THROUGH A LENS DAHHHKLY
Donnie Wahlberg is taking a break from playing a cop in Blue Bloods and producing a new series called Boston’s Finest, a non-scripted docudrama that follows various divisions within the Boston Police...
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THREE DEAD IN A BASEMENT: HOW THE CAMPBELL BROTHERS KILLED THE CIVIL RIGHTS...
The following is an excerpt from Gangsters of Boston by George Hassett, available now from Strategic Media Books. NOVEMBER 13, 1968. 370 BLUE HILL AVENUE. OFFICE OF N.E.G.R.O. (NEW ENGLAND GRASS ROOTS...
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FEEDBACK: VOLUME 15, ISSUE 22
Let’s chat. So, you hear from us a lot. Like, every week in print, every 20 minutes on DigBoston.com, every 15 minutes on our Facebook page, and every … millisecond in the Twitter-sphere. Our dearest...
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THE DIG’S 2013 STUDENT GUIDE: BOSTON COPS
5-0. The fuzz. The po-po. Although the police have a lot of fun nicknames, having to talk to them never is. Whether it’s because you’ve got 100 people raging in your apartment or because that red light...
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NEWS TO US: NO STOPPING BOSTON FREEDOM RALLY
Photo credit: Al Conant The MassCann/NORML Boston Freedom Rally for the first time in history went down for two days on Sept. 14 and 15, but not without some City of Boston permitting and court drama....
View ArticleBOSTON COP BEATS UBER DRIVER, STEALS CAR
An off-duty Boston Police Department officer appears to have had a doozy of a ride home from the North End this morning.
View ArticleTHE I-93 SHUTDOWN CHANGED A LOT, BUT NOT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT...
The last few days have been a coming out party for closeted Archie Bunkers.
View ArticleMY FRIEND WAS DETAINED AS A SUSPECT IN THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING MANHUNT....
“Out of nowhere, then . . . they flipped me over and . . . they’re cuffing me and giving me a full search down.”
View ArticleBOSTON COP BEATS UBER DRIVER, STEALS CAR
An off-duty Boston Police Department officer appears to have had a doozy of a ride home from the North End this morning.
View ArticleTHE I-93 SHUTDOWN CHANGED A LOT, BUT NOT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT...
The last few days have been a coming out party for closeted Archie Bunkers.
View ArticleMY FRIEND WAS DETAINED AS A SUSPECT IN THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING MANHUNT....
“Out of nowhere, then . . . they flipped me over and . . . they’re cuffing me and giving me a full search down.”
View ArticleCOPBLOCK’D: THE FIGHT AGAINST POLICE MISCONDUCT IN BOSTON CONTINUES
Stats suggest, activists, and outside experts agree: There will never be accountability for BPD so long as cops police themselves
View ArticleBUT ARE WE SAFER? A BOSTON MARATHON SECURITY CHECK
As I prepared for my second warrantless search of the afternoon ...
View ArticleBOSTON COP BEATS UBER DRIVER, STEALS CAR
An off-duty Boston Police Department officer appears to have had a doozy of a ride home from the North End this morning.
View ArticleTHE I-93 SHUTDOWN CHANGED A LOT, BUT NOT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT...
The last few days have been a coming out party for closeted Archie Bunkers.
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