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Letter to the Editor: “Police body cam rollout hits a snag” (12/9/19)
In “Police body cam rollout hits a snag” (12/9/19), the Boston Globe seriously misrepresented both the Boston Police Department’s body camera program and the role of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association in its implementation. The addition of body worn cameras is the biggest change in policing in the last 30 years. The Union was initially …
2019 Scholarships
Scholarship letters and forms are available for both the Patrolmen’s Division here and the EMS Division here.
Letter To US Representative Ayanna Pressley
Dear Representative Pressley: I am writing on behalf of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association to strongly protest your decision to urge your constituents to contribute to a bail fund for protesters arrested this weekend during the Straight Pride rally in downtown Boston. The Police are assigned to work at these kind of events in order …
Letter to Senator Elizabeth Warren
Dear Senator Warren: I am writing on behalf of the hard-working police officers of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, who are tired of being targeted as murderers and racists by you and other candidates for higher office. This has got to stop. You and others who carelessly use terms like “murder” are contributing to a …
BPPA Music City/Nashville Raffle
We regret to announce the passing of former BPPA Chairman Chet Broderick
Just received word that former BPPA Chairman Chet Broderick passed away. More information will follow RIP. Chet came on in 1957 and was assigned to Station 6. Like most of us at the time we saw how the “system” worked against us. After the BPPA got its charger to negotiate working conditions and wages, Chet …
72 Philadelphia cops pulled off the street amid probe into racist Facebook posts
The Philadelphia Police Department has placed 72 officers on desk duty, and some are likely to be fired, the police commissioner said Wednesday, amid an investigation into racist or otherwise offensive Facebook posts by the city’s officers.
Dental Insurance/Vision Insurance Open Enrollment
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Police investigating after several memorial monuments vandalized at Mattapan cemetery
BOSTON (WHDH) – The Boston Police Department is turning to the public for help in tracking down the person responsible for vandalizing several memorial monuments at Mount Hope Cemetery in Mattapan. Officers responding to the cemetery at 355 Walk Hill St. found five memorials that had been vandalized, including one which is dedicated to fallen …
