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Mayoral Candidate Essaibi George Unveils Broad Equity And Inclusion Agenda
The 44-page plan comes with proposals on police reform, housing and economic justice. -
More than 17,000 deaths caused by police have been misclassified since 1980
Deaths involving police have been greatly under-counted in the United States, and African American people die in such encounters at 3.5 times the rate of… -
Violent Crime Drops In Boston, Bucking National Trend
The number of murders continued to rise over the summer nationally — but, in Boston, murders dropped by nearly a third. -
Boston Police Accountability Panel Scraps First Public Meeting, Reschedules It For Next Week
The transparency meeting was never publicized. -
Boston's New Police Transparency Office Has An Important Public Meeting Thursday. But They Didn't Tell The Public.
Jamarhl Crawford and Tanisha Sullivan, raised concerns about the slow pace of police reform during a Wednesday interview on "Boston Public Radio." -
A Deaf Man Who Couldn't Hear Police Commands Was Tased And Spent Four Months In Jail
When Brady Mistic drove into the parking lot of a Colorado laundromat one fall day in 2019, he thought he was about to run a routine errand.But moments… -
Comfort Station Closure Triggers Mass & Cass Flare Up Among Mayoral Candidates
Mayoral competitors decried the lack of action on Mass & Cass after reporting revealed the area’s central services station has been closed. -
Local Families Affected By Police Killings Join D.C. Rally To Press For Cases To Be Reopened
Hundreds of families impacted by police killings gathered in Washington D.C. to urge the reopening of the cases after years and sometimes decades of pushing. -
Lynn Just Allocated Half A Million Dollars Towards A Policing Alternative For Mental Health Crises. Now What?
Lynn Mayor Thomas McGee joined "Boston Public Radio" on Wednesday to talk about the ALERT program, which would be the first of its kind in Massachusetts. -
'Defund The Police': An LBJ-Commissioned Report Had The Same Idea, 53 Years Ago
Having alternate social services that “didn’t require someone with a gun to show up” was a key finding, Cobb said.
