Boston crime thread - all posts go here. (Boston: universities, cost)

[P Larsen]

Down, likewise for other violent crime:

https://universalhub.com/yir/2021/murders

[Mayei]

Wu will announce a police commissioner search committee tomorrow.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by Mayei

Wu will announce a police commissioner search committee tomorrow.

Justice Geraldine Hines, a retired member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, will serve as chair of the committee charged with searching for candidates who could potentially lead the nation’s oldest police force, which has effectively lacked a permanent leader for almost a year.

Other members of the panel include former Boston police commissioner Ed Davis; Bishop William E. Dickerson II, senior pastor at the Greater Love Tabernacle Church; Abrigal Forrester, the executive director of Teen Empowerment; and Jasmine Gonzales Rose, a law professor and deputy director of research and policy at Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/01/...ing-committee/

[msRB311]

Wow...BPD leadership surely looks different these days. Good luck to them all. Lots of unhappy people there at the moment.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by msRB311

Wow...BPD leadership surely looks different these days. Good luck to them all. Lots of unhappy people there at the moment.

This committee isn't BPD leadership. It's an outside committee that has 0 BPD staff.

BPD is unhappy because 'grouchy and disagreeable' is kind of the default police attitude even in good times..... add to this a vaccine mandate and they're very upset (as we saw during their protest at the City Council swearing-in on Monday).

[msRB311]

There's a lot going on there.

I will say that I kind of get where people are coming from on the vaccine mandate particularly if you're pregnant. I would probably be angry if leadership told pregnant me- get the vaccine or your fired.

My job told me I had to get the vaccine and the booster...i just got it done because it's not a big deal to me and I actually want to be protected from getting sick as much as possible. Others don't share that sentiment. I do kind of wonder what happened to my body my choice...it applies to many things but not this vaccine.

[Mayei]

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

Justice Geraldine Hines, a retired member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, will serve as chair of the committee charged with searching for candidates who could potentially lead the nation’s oldest police force, which has effectively lacked a permanent leader for almost a year.

Other members of the panel include former Boston police commissioner Ed Davis; Bishop William E. Dickerson II, senior pastor at the Greater Love Tabernacle Church; Abrigal Forrester, the executive director of Teen Empowerment; and Jasmine Gonzales Rose, a law professor and deputy director of research and policy at Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/01/...ing-committee/

Thanks so much for assembling this information! Seems like an interesting array of people with different perspectives.

I have to get one thing off my chest though:

Professor Gonzales Rose currently teaches courses in Evidence, Criminal Law, and Latinxs and the Law.

"Latinxs"...

I I hope they can find someone who is pragmatic, compassionate, and responsible. Ideally I would love if they had a connection to the city. Did they say if there was a timeline for the process?

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by msRB311

There's a lot going on there.

I will say that I kind of get where people are coming from on the vaccine mandate particularly if you're pregnant. I would probably be angry if leadership told pregnant me- get the vaccine or your fired.

My job told me I had to get the vaccine and the booster...i just got it done because it's not a big deal to me and I actually want to be protected from getting sick as much as possible. Others don't share that sentiment. I do kind of wonder what happened to my body my choice...it applies to many things but not this vaccine.

We all get vaccinated with a bunch of things before grade school. We dont let women walk around topless or people generally walk around naked. Its never really been my body my choice. But you do have a choice to live on the fringes of society- you always do.

[JacksonPanther]

[ I do kind of wonder what happened to my body my choice...it applies to many things but not this vaccine.[/quote]

Try to go to any school without proof of MMR vaccine, then tell me if it's ever been "your body, your choice."

I choose to not allow you to shed endless virus particles onto an unwilling public. Your body, my choice.

[Mayei]

Originally Posted by BostonBornMassMade

We all get vaccinated with a bunch of things before grade school. We dont let women walk around topless or people generally walk around naked. Its never really been my body my choice. But you do have a choice to live on the fringes of society- you always do.

Originally Posted by JacksonPanther

[ I do kind of wonder what happened to my body my choice...it applies to many things but not this vaccine.

Try to go to any school without proof of MMR vaccine, then tell me if it's ever been "your body, your choice."
[/quote]

Other vaccines have decades of research behind them. The unvaccinated people I know are primarily concerned about the relative newness of the Covid vaccines.

I choose to not allow you to shed endless virus particles onto an unwilling public. Your body, my choice.

Yikes.