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January 28, 2020 By OLIVIA DENG

FLAW PATROL

“Increased patrols do not protect anyone … they are actively harmful to poor and oppressed people who are routinely harassed, brutalized, and surveilled by the police in Boston and across the country.”

Filed Under: Features, Immigration, Reporting, Reports Tagged With: ACLU, Alex Marthews, ANSWER Coalition, Boston Police Department, Boston Research Intelligence Center, BPD, BRIC, criminal justice, criminal justice reform, details, Digital Fourth, fusion centers, immigration, Iran, law enforcement, Muslims, overtime, police accountability, racial profiling, see something say something, surveillance

November 26, 2019 By SARA SELEVITCH

THE QUIET ONE

40 years ago this month, Fred Clay was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit. After 38 years behind bars, he’s telling his story and writing another chapter.

Filed Under: Features, Reporting, Reports Tagged With: Boston, Boston Police, Boston Police Department, BPD, corrections, criminal justice, Dan Conley, doc, Fred Clay, hypnosis, incarceration, jail, Jon Kater, law enforcement, lawyers, LWOP, Mass DOC, parole, police, prison, prosecutorial corruption, Sean Ellis, Suffolk County District Attorney

August 9, 2018 By JONATHAN RILEY

CRIPPLED EPISTEMOLOGY

Boston researchers have spent years helping government agencies plan and simulate operations to troll potential terrorists. Despite controversial practices and lackluster results, the covert operations continue.

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Boston, Boston Police Department, BPD, BRIC, Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, conspiracy, conspiracy theories, DARPA, DHS, Donald Trump, Facebook, feature, features, Glenn Greenwald, Guardian, history, ISIS, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Lone Wolf, MKULTRA, NSA, Persona, Pokemon, Robert Popp, Russian trolls, Sunstein, technology, terrorism, throwback, US Army Special Operations Command, Usaamah Rahim, World War II

March 21, 2018 By DANIEL DEFRAIA

CAUGHT ON CAM-SHARE

BPD seeks access to private security cameras, experiments with new surveillance network The Boston Police Department wants to deputize your surveillance system. After a crime, police canvass for private security cameras. Sometimes, they obtain a warrant for the tapes or data, or simply ask for the owner’s consent to access footage. But since last November, […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: ACLU, Big Brother, Boston, Boston Police Department, BPD, cameras, deputizing cameras, Dorchester, Dorchester Reporter, spying, surveillance

August 22, 2017 By JASON PRAMAS

THAT ‘FREE SPEECH’ THING

Photo by Kori Feener Mayor Walsh and various police agencies were no friends of civil liberties at Boston’s monster protests against the ultra right August 22, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Despite the “mission accomplished” happy talk in most of the news media, Saturday’s 40,000-strong Boston protests against extremism — and the tiny ultra-right rally that sparked them — were only wins for […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: Boston Police Department, BPD Commissioner Evans, civil liberties, democracy, free speech, government, left wing, Mass State Police, mayor Marty Walsh, police brutality, protest, right wing, riot cops, shitposter, social justice, ultra right

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