PAX Centurion - September / October 2014

Page 22 • PAX CENTURION • September/October 2014 617-989-BPPA (2772) Life Insurance Tax-Free Retirement Wealth Building Estate Planning Inheritance Strategy New Business Foundations Investments College Funding Maximizing Social Security Strategies ... and more! “I wish somebody had shown me all this before, this is incredible!” “I never knew this could be done. You should teach a class at the Academy!” FREE PERSONALIZED FINANCIAL PLANNING KEVIN J. PISHKIN Former Police Officer in Boston Retired On Injury Financial Consultant New York Life Boston General Office 781-223-3791 “The job is hard enough as it is, let’s make sure you retire wealthy!” Declaration of Homestead Protect your residence! If you own a home, call us today to find out how you can protect your property up to $500,000.00 Don Green Law Office of Donald E. Green (A full service law firm) 2235 Washington Street Roxbury, MA 02119 (617) 442-0050 toll free (877) DON-GREEN As we have over the past 30 years, we offer a discounted fee to police officers Don Green Annette Hill Green F ormer ( Editor’s note: thankfully!) Boston Police Commis- sioner Ed Davis, who was hired at some unknown, taxpayer- funded fee to produce a 65-page “report” about the drunken UMass Amherst students who rioted and threw bottles at cops at the “Barney-blowout”/pre-St. Patrick’s Day party, has issued his find- ings: the cops overreacted. I would have charged the state nothing and been able to tell you in one page what the problem was at UMass, but, of course, I’m not politically connected. Bureaucrats, phonies, frauds and retired police commissioners (I’m being redundant, aren’t I?) need to “study” issues for extended periods of time at an enormous cost to the taxpayers to tell the rest of us what we already know: drunken college kids are idiots and morons who are likely to cause trouble, especially around St. Patrick’s Day when they all think they’re Irish but know nothing of Irish history or culture. End of study…. could have saved the state a lot of money…. As he his wont to do, Davis’ report used politically-correct terms such as “stakeholders” to describe the idiot drunken students who threw bottles and trash at the UMass andAmherst cops. (Ahmmm- Ed… one of my children went to UMass Amherst. I am the stake- holder, at least as far as the student loan companies are concerned. According to Davis’ report, the cops “did not heed warnings from social media.”What was that, Ed; that stupid college kids were drink- ing before St. Patrick’s day on a college campus located in the middle of Western Mass. nowhere?And, we’ll blame the cops for that one? He also cited a “disconnect” between the police and the security staff, because there were more than 7,000 registered guests on campus that weekend (and God knows how many unregistered guests???). And what, pray tell, Mr. Davis, were the police supposed to do about that??? Remove them, and then be accused of all sorts of other civil- rights violations? The report also recommends “a more comprehensive model of community policing.” Ed, please shut up and go away.You have a nice gig giving “expert opinions” on police issues on one of the local TV stations. (Ha!- tell them about the lawsuit for false arrest you were involved in up Lowell years ago. Remember? I do!) “Communi- ty policing” and “interaction with student government” is not going to have any influence on drunken idiot college kids celebrating diversity on St. Patrick’s Day weekend at UMass Amherst or any other college campus. College students are, by their very nature, stupid. I know. I was one. (Northeastern University, 1977…) “Communicating” with student leaders sounds marvelous at a candlelight vigil or a feel-good community meeting; but when cops are having bottles and rocks thrown at them by drunken-idiot college kids, it’s different: like the saying goes, when you’re surrounded by alligators, it’s a little bit difficult to remember that your original job was to drain the swamp. Former Commissioner Davis: do you remember the little ditty on the radio encouraging tourists to come to your home City of Lowell (God only knows why: “There’s a lot to like about Lowell…”) If you promise to go back, I’ll promise to never visit. What a deal…. Former Commissioner Davis renders report on UMass riots Ed: How can we miss you, when you won’t go away? By James W. Carnell, Pax Editor