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BPPA-sponsoredcost analysis

study…But why?

BPPA receives donation from PAL


By Jim Carnell, Pax Editor

The Pax has learned through our sources at the StateHouse that anti-police/anti-union critics of police

details are absolutely livid that BPPA-sponsored lan-guage requiring a cost-comparison study of police vs.flagmen was inserted into proposed legislation.

The obvious question is, of course, why would foesof police details, whose arguments for replacing policeofficers with flagmen are based almost totally on allegedcost savings, be opposed to a cost-comparison analy-sis? And the obvious answer is that, as the BPPA hassaid all along, there are no cost savings. Under the pre-vailing wage law, flagmen are already above the ratefor a Boston police officer: a flagger/signaler under Mass.prevailing wage law is currently $37.50 per hour – ex-cluding overtime, night, weekend, specialty add-ons,while a BPD officer is $34.00-$37.00 per hour whichnever changes or increases regardless of time, day, etc.etc.

The anti-police, anti-union big mouths, representedby the likes of the Beacon Hill Institute’s/Suffolk Uni-versity Prof. David Tuerck, Massachusetts TaxpayersFoundation’s Michael Widmer, the Boston Herald’sRachelle Cohen and the hag from Marblehead, Bar-bara Anderson, do not want facts interjected into theirtirades against police details. They continue to perpetu-ate the myth of “$12.00-$15.00 per hour flagmen,” de-spite glaring evidence and published reports that jobs at$15.00-$20.00 per hour aren’t being filled on Cape Codand other resort locations because they simply don’t payenough to survive in this area and this economy.

In fact, it has been reported that Prof. Tuerck and Mr.Widmer were almost apoplectic when they found outabout the requirement for a cost-benefit analysis. Theirintent, as we recently discovered, was to eliminate notonly police details but the entire prevailing wage lawand collective bargaining laws for public employees.Such is the level of hatred that these elitist frauds havefor working people. Quoting our sources: “Why evenbother with this [proposal for police detail reform] ifyou’re not going to eliminate the prevailing wage law,too”!, said the cop-hating “reformers.”

For those unfamiliar with Prof. Tuerck and the Bea-con Hill Institute, which presents itself as some sort ofbenevolent organization that conducts public-intereststudies and surveys, it is instructive to recall an editorial

By James Carnell, Pax Editor

IN YET ANOTHER STUNNINGEXAMPLE of the upside-down,

double-standard world police officersare subjected to, the Massa-chusetts Supreme JudicialCourt recently ruled that liedetector tests, are “OK” forone profession – police offic-ers.

Quoting from the BostonGlobe (5/29/08): “Sayingpublic confidence in law en-forcement must be protected,the state’s highest courtruled… that police officerscan be forced to take lie de-tector tests during internal in-vestigations into possiblecriminal activity. [The court]ruled against Plymouth police officerKevin Furtado, who was forced to takea lie detector test by the Plymouth po-lice department. The demand cameafter he was accused in 1999 of sexu-ally abusing two children, an allega-tion the parents of the boys later saidwere unfounded, according to courtrecords.”

Plymouth Police Chief RobertPomeroy then subjected Furtado to thelie-detector test before allowing himto return to work, apparently eventhough the parents of the boys had al-ready admitted that the charges wereunfounded. (Ed.: Furtado took the testand returned to work in 2000, thensued the Plymouth PD.)“We have littlehesitation (emphasis added) in con-cluding that, when the functions of aPolice Department are disrupted byallegations of criminal conduct bypolice officers (emphasis added) the…decision to subject officers to liedetector tests furthers law enforcementobjectives,” Justice Robert Cordy

SJC: Lie detector tests OK…but only for cops

Inadmissable test OK for terminating police officerswrote for the court….”

As any fair-minded individual canplainly see, this decision opens thedoor for absolute, total and complete

disregard of any rights that police of-ficers may have previously believedthey enjoyed as citizens of the United

States of America. We are expected toassiduously and vigorously protect therights of others, but we apparently havenone of our own. The SJC did not OK

the use of the lie detector test for judgesor lawyers – despite their ballyhooed

That “criminal investigation” rubric now opens thedoor for unbridled and unscientifically-provenuse of the lie detector test by police chiefs on awitch-hunt expedition against their own officers.Or, a suspect could allege that a police officerused “excessive force” during an arrest. A policemanager could now use the excuse of “aninvestigation into an allegation of criminal assaultand battery by a police officer” to justify the use –and misuse – of the lie detector test.

By Jay Broderick, BPPA Secretary

Just this week, the BPPA received a very generous donation from BostonPolice Athletic League Director Gerry Ridge. As many of you know,

Gerry is a former Boston Police Officer and has been the key component forthe PAL program for many years. Boston PAL is an organization that isgeared towards creating and supporting activities for the kids of the city.They have been incredibly successful in their endeavors under Gerry’s guid-ance and direction. Gerry, knowing the BPPA’s commitment to the commu-nity, graciously secured a $25,000 donation for the BPPA to use towardshelping different organizations within the city.

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Thomas J. Nee, Executive DirectorRonald MacGillivray, Vice President

John Broderick, Jr., SecretaryThomas Pratt, Treasurer

BOARD OF EDITORSJames Carnell, Managing Editor

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Joe Miskel • Mark BrunoPatrick Rose • Chuck Kelley

AREA DRich Moriarty • Scott Yanovich

Robert Butler • Greg LynchLou Maderia • Michael McManus

AREA EMichael Harrington • Paul Nee

Lawrence CalderoneGerald Rautenberg • Steve Kelley

Arthur McCarthyChris Morgan • Richard Jordan

AREA FIDENT. UNIT – John Fitzgerald

DRUG UNIT – Paul QuinnYVSF – Timothy Stanton

M.O.P.Richie Kelley

Chris Broderick

RADIO SHOP / P.D.S.John Kundy

P.D.S. – Karen VanDyke

TURRETJohn Conway • Dave Stewart

Richard Brennan

ACADEMY / RANGEEVIDENCE MANAGEMENT

Paul Downey

HARBORJeff Tobin

E.S.U.Hector Cabrera • Francis Deary

HEADQUARTERS

AWARDSBob Butler • J. Broderick • G. Rautenberg

GRIEVANCEBob Butler • Jim Carnell • Brian ReaneyMike Leary • Tom Pratt • Dave Fitzgerald

BUILDINGTom Nee

BARGAININGTom Nee • Ron MacGillivray • Brian Reaney

Tom Pratt • Dave Fitzgerald

LEGISLATIVEJim Barry

MassPULLJim Barry

K-9 / MOUNTEDKevin Ford • Patrick Butler

MASTER AT ARMSRobert Lundbohm • Mike MurphyRheitha Stewart

PUBLIC RELATIONSJim Barry

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BYLAWSTom Nee

HEALTH and SAFETY / LABOR MANAGEMENTJohn KundyELECTIONS

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Summer vacation squads haven’t evenbegun and already the BPPA has been

focusing on its fall work schedule and theNovember 4th election season.

Certainly picking a new President is veryimportant and the greatest nation on theearth will make that decision on that date.But there will also be another crucial deci-sion made on that date by the voting publicof Massachusetts. A decision that could sig-nificantly alter the way we all live and worktoday.

The BPPA leadership has and is deeplyconcerned with the current trends in theeconomy and believes that it could have asignificant impact on the voting public’smindset and thought process in November.

So to our membership I ask, let the con-versation begin here. On the November bal-lot, every citizen in the Commonwealth willbe asked to vote on a ballot proposal thatcomes from the Coalition for Small Gov-ernment, led by one-time Libertarian Partycandidate for Governor, Carla Howell.

The ballot question would phase out thestate income tax by cutting it from 5.3 per-cent to 2.65 percent in 2009 and subse-quently eliminating the income tax alto-gether in the year 2010. The question begsto be asked; should you vote for or againstthe ballot initiative? Should you vote to keepthe Massachusetts Income Tax or end it?You probably want to make an informeddecision.

As the economy continues to go southmore and more people are worried aboutlosing their jobs, their homes. The price ofgas just topped four bucks and foreclosuresare seemingly outpacing the war spending.

The silence from Washington is deafen-ing and the voting public is sick and tiredof the helpless feeling and they want somefeeling of power. They’re sick and tired ofpaying taxes, hell so are we. All you haveto do is look to the many recent overridevotes to understand my point. They are sickof broken promises and they’re looking foranswers, some say they are looking forsomeone to blame.

Back in 2002 we were in a similar situa-tion; the nation was in the grips of a reces-sion in the post 9/11 world. An identicalquestion was proposed in Massachusettsand it got 45 percent of the vote. Duringthat campaign and if I might add during anemotionally different time period, propo-nents of the measure promised as I am surethey will again that if you vote to repeal theincome tax, the average taxpayer (3,000,000of us) will save about $3,600.00 per year.They will promise that it will shrink gov-ernment and Massachusetts will be all thebetter for it. I say that these people havebeen hugging trees to long. This proposalis so bad that even Barbara Anderson isreluctant to support it. If this tax roll back issuccessful it would require the Common-wealth of Massachusetts to operate on thesame level a budget signed into law in 1995(about 17 plus billion). Could you pay your

bills or do your business if you were to lose40 percent of your income? Could you payyour bills and have the same quality of lifethat you have today on the same budget thatyou had in 1995. Of course you couldn’t.Let me give you another visual of what thistax roll back would do to the state revenues.First of all, 14 BILLION dollars will im-mediately disappear from the state revenues.Sam Huff, a private policy consultant whostudies the state budget recently reportedthat if the Commonwealth of Massachusettsrecently reported that if EVERY stateworker were laid off that would represent

Your quality of life andwork opportunities areat stake in thisconversation. VOTE NOon the income taxroll back initiative.Don’t live in themoment, vote yourfuture. The decision isyours and here inMassachusettsit is as important aspicking a President,enough said.

about 5 billion dollars. What do you thinkhappens next, where do you think that theywill find the other 9 billion dollars? Localaid, Quinn bill, pensions, health care, paiddetails; I could go on and on about the thingsthat affect you. How about a page right outof the Kevin White playbook, police, fireand teacher layoffs. Don’t think it won’thappen, there are still plenty of peoplearound and still on the job that experiencedhis political lies and nonsense, just ask themhow serious an impact it had on them andtheir families. Think that it is worth $3,600per year, I don’t. If this initiative is success-ful, we will all be looking at a serious newway of living and frankly not for the better.Do we want to pay fewer taxes, absolutely,but at the expense of every thing else, noway. So please, speak to your family, friendsand loved ones during the couple of months,and have a factual conversation about thisill-conceived initiative.

Your quality of life and work opportuni-ties are at stake in this conversation. VOTENO on the income tax roll back initiative.Don’t live in the moment, vote your future.The decision is yours and here in Massa-chusetts it is as important as picking a Presi-dent, enough said.

In closing and as always, please be safeout there.

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Message from the Vice President: Ronald MacGillivray

Polygraph testThe Massachusetts Supreme Judicial

Court ruled that police officers sus-pected of criminal activity can be subjectto a polygraph test during the administra-tive investigation so long as there is “an al-leged crime in thepicture (not a mereviolation of a De-partment regula-tion).” The Courtsaid it was irrel-evant if criminalprosecution wasimpossible. In thecase before theCourt the officerhad been grantedimmunity.

BPPA attorneysBryan Decker,John Becker andPatrick Bryantfiled a friend-of-the-court brief and pointed out many incon-sistencies in the decision, the obvious be-ing “that the SJC itself has deemed poly-graphs to be inadmissible in court againstcriminals. In addition, Bryan presentedcases from other jurisdictions that havestruck down polygraph statutes as uncon-stitutional where the statute treats policeofficers differently than all other publicemployees.”

Our attorneys made a sound presenta-tion that any neutral, impartial body shouldhave reasoned. The Supreme Court’s con-flicted motivation in singling out our pro-fession is disturbing given the total disre-gard for existing principles in making theirdetermination. Just more of the same…

BankruptcyThe BPPA subscribes to a publication

that keeps us up to date with current eventsboth locally and around the country. Theservice is called Labor Relations Informa-tion System. Recent periodicals have con-sistently made mention of the fiscal insta-bility of cities and states across the country.Like most reporting…you hear about theextremes. Declining revenues have been thecause of layoffs and salary reduction withthe word recession being mentioned in mostaccounts. The City of Boston is in goodshape but will have to deal with level fund-ing and some cutbacks in State aid.

Speaking of extreme…In California, itis reported in the San Francisco Chronicle,that the City of Vallejo’s City Council hasvoted unanimously to declare bankruptcyafter all attempts failed in reconciling theirlarge deficit for fiscal 2009. “The city of117,000 will owe its police, fire and otherunion members $79.4 million in 2008-09,but will have $77.9 million in its generalfund according to the bankruptcy filing.”Odd that the school system is not mentionedbut it must come under a different fundingsource. These numbers did not get like thisovernight because of a weak housing

market…and to no one’s surprise, the cityclaims they can not rebalance the generalfund without restructuring its labor costs.

Former Bankruptcy Judge Lisa Fenningstates there has not been much litigation in

this area…anddoes not knowwhether thejudge will al-low the city torewrite itsunion con-tracts or im-pose terms forsalaries andbenefits. Thiswill be closelywatched afterwhat hap-pened in theprivate sectorto both the air-line and auto

industry’s pensions and benefits.

Defining MedicareParts A, B, C and D

and Section 18Taken from an earlier article…Medicare

is the federal health care system that coversabout 36 million people age 65 and older,plus 7 million disabled. It has 4 parts:

Part A. Covers inpatient hospital careas well as nursing home and hospice care.Most elderly and disabled Americansqualify for Part A coverage which is fi-nanced by a 2.9% payroll tax dividedequally by employers and employees.

Part B. Covers outpatient care, doctor’sservices, durable medical equipment, homehealth visits and preventive care. Part Bcoverage is voluntary…roughly 40 millionpeople are enrolled. Financed by beneficiarypremiums and federal general revenue.Current monthly premiums are $96.40. In2000, premiums were $45.50. Individualswhose taxable income is more than $80,000.will pay a higher premium.

Part C. Medicare Advantage managedhealth care plans provide health care nor-mally provided by Medicare Parts A and B.They may also provide some other benefits,including prescription drugs, not coveredby traditional Medicare. Part C is voluntary;about 7 million beneficiaries are enrolled.Financed by Medicare and beneficiary pre-miums, which vary among plans.

Part D. Medicare prescription drugplans come in 2 types; those that just coverprescription drugs and those that coverdrugs as a broader managed care benefit.Part D is voluntary. The plans are privateand financed by Medicare and beneficiarypremiums, which vary among plans.

Section 18. In the last negotiations, theCity bargained what is referred to as Sec-tion 18 prospectively...though still notimplemented, this legislation shifts Medi-care covered costs from the City to the Fed-eral Medicare program requiring Medicare-

eligible retirees, spouses and dependents(“retirees”) to enroll in a Medicare supple-mental plan. The City recently gave a draftanalysis on how it would arrive at prospec-tive costs for the retirees as compared tothe actives.

Retirees would be covered by MedicareParts A and B, plus a City-sponsored Medi-care supplemental plan. Medicare and theCity-sponsored plan must together offerbenefits that are of “comparable actuarialvalue” to the existing plan as per our agree-ment. The City is targeting no more than a2% to 3% variance from the active plans.The Comparable Actuarial Value will notrequire identical benefits and will look ataverage per person payout, not the impact

on each individual enrollee.The BPPA suggested that the City ask

insurance providers to design supplemen-tal plans for retirees that will provide iden-tical coverage to the active employee plansnegating the need for an actuarialcomparison…use assumptions of actualutilization figures from the City as opposedto the North East…and compare all as op-posed to specific types of service providedin determining the value of the plan(s).

Health insurance is going to be a hugeissue for both the actives and the retirees inthe future. Any definitive information willbe passed along.

Stay vigilant on the details.

Our attorneys made a soundpresentation that any neutral,impartial body should havereasoned. The SupremeCourt’s conflicted motivationin singling out our professionis disturbing given the totaldisregard for existingprinciples in making theirdetermination.Just more of the same…

By Jim Carnell, Pax Editor

MARCH, march, march, march, walk,walk, walk, walk, run, run, run,

run…Yes, it’s “ THE MARCHING SEASON”

again, that wonderful time of year whenhundreds – perhaps thousands – of “goodcauses” decide that God himself came downfrom Heaven and conferred upon their be-nevolent organization the unfettered rightto clog Boston’s streets and cause untoldaggravation, delay and frustration for resi-dents, motorists and the most forgotten ofall… the police.

Yes, it’s never the precocious little chil-dren in duck costumes and their obnoxiousyuppie parents participating in the annualBeacon Hill “Make Way for Ducklings”march who get blamed by fuming motor-ists who have to drive six miles out of theirway to get around the block. And it’s notthe nitwits from Newton or the boobs fromBrookline walking in the annual BostonCommon “Walk against Hunger” who haveto feel the wrath of aggravated residents whosimply want to enjoy a quiet weekend. Nei-ther is it the waddling pig clad in spandexwho occupies the public streets for 3-plushours to complete a five-mile “run” in theannual “Race to Remember” who has toexplain to lost motorists why it’s taken anhour to proceed 100 yards on a Sundaymorning. No, the poor S.O.B. who getsblamed for all of these conundrums is themaligned, beleaguered street-level patrolofficer.

There must be a good reason why theWalk against Flatulence or the March ofMorons can’t be relocated to Route 9 inWellesley, but I haven’t heard it yet. AndI’m still waiting to hear why every year inearly June, on a weekday during high-noonand extending throughout the afternoon andinto the evening rush-hour, those suburbanfroot-loops and “eccentric” (trans.: crazy)Beacon Hill Yankees dressed in revolution-

The Marching Season, part 7Q: Who gets blamed for traffic delays andaggravation for “Good Cause” marches?

A: The cops…ary war costumes who comprise the “An-cient and Honorable Military Company”(“first at the bar, last at the battle”) get tobring traffic to a standstill why they per-form their pansy-girl routine in the middleof Tremont St.

Soon, there will again appear the “Cor-porate Challenge Road Race,” in whichman-girls from Boston banks and board-rooms dressed in their underwear trying toimpress their bosses with their athleticprowess will expropriate downtown streetsduring rush-hour while harried patrolmentry to explain to angry residents why they’restuck in traffic on their own street. Natu-rally, the organizers of these marches andthe people who issued the permits are neveraround when frustrated motorists are vent-ing their spleens at the officer having themisfortune to be assigned to traffic duty inthe intersection. And of course, each andevery motorist wants- nay, demands- a per-sonalized explanation of what is going on,who is marching, how long it’s going to last,when it’s going to be over, etc. etc. adnauseum.

My all-time favorite remains the annual“March against Hunger,” in which thou-sands of well-meaning, starry-eyed partici-pants adorn themselves with the mantle ofmartyrdom and descend upon our fair cityfor the express purpose of feeling goodabout themselves while deluding them-selves into believing they are helping to feedthe poor and downtrodden. (Of course, atthe end of the day, the vast majority willreturn home to privileged, lily-white sub-urbs where they have moved to get awayfrom the poor and downtrodden.) Busloadsof impressionable school children singing“Michael, row your boat ashore” and gray-ing hippies with anti-war slogans pasted ontheir backpacks gather to raise money tofeed the alleged hungry and starving poorfolk. Of course, about 100 yards away, roll-



Treasury Notes: Thomas Pratt, BPPA Treasurer

Dental plan, deferred compensationand other pertinent matters

To the membership I open up with thecustomary… “I hope you’re all doing

well?” The first order of business that I willtalk about is the dental program. After ne-gotiating with Delta Dental over the lastseveral weeks, our insurance bro-ker, myself and the other membersof the leadership team secured a0% increase in the dental premiumfor the upcoming year. We also se-cured a 5% cap for the followingyear. What does this mean? Itmeans your dental premiums willnot increase this year and the high-est it will go up next year is 5%. Itwas a tough negotiation but DeltaDental valued the BPPA’s business and didnot want to see us leave and go to anotherdental insurer and a common ground wasagreed upon.

The next order of business I would liketo touch upon is the 457 deferred compen-sation plan. The BPPA, after the last roundof contract negotiations secured languagethat will allow our members the ability tohave money taken from their supplementalwages (i.e. detail and overtime pay) andhave it deposited into their deferred com-pensation plan. To do this you have to firstbe enrolled in the deferred compensationprogram. The new carrier for the programis Great West, which replaces ING. Thename of our representative for Great Westis Ali Sackett. She can be reached at tele-phone number 1-781-801-0922. If you arenot enrolled in the program but would liketo be, Ali is the person you do this with.The way to have your supplemental money

deducted and then deposited into your 457plan is easy. If you have a user ID, you candownload an authorization form from theBPPA’s web page. If you do not have ac-cess to a computer, the forms can be ob-

tained at the BPPA. The directions on theform are easy to follow. After you completeit, all you have to do is either fax it or mailit to City Hall. The number and address areon the form. This is a good way of savingfor your retirement without having to com-mit a dollar or percentage of your weeklypay. Remember the money you put into thisaccount is tax deferred until you retire andit does not interfere with other retirementprograms or accounts you may alreadyhave. The next date that Ali Sackett will beat the BPPA Hall is June 25,2008. The hourswill be from 9am to 4pm all appointmentswill be conducted in private.

The next thing on the agenda is a thankyou to Tommy Tinlin, the Commissionerof Traffic and Parking. Tommy helped getthe memorial plaque of Police OfficerJames O’Leary re-hung on the BoylstonStreet Bridge. The plaque was taken downa few years ago when the bridge was being

repaired and then was misplaced. It wasfound by an employee of the Turnpike Au-thority, John O’Connor, who found it inthe basement of the building he worked inand returned it to the BPPA by way of P.O.

Jack Bates (A1 rep). Also on this topic Iwould like to thank Scott Yanovich, AdamMazzolla and Rick Moriarty from District4, for not letting me forget about the sacri-fice Officer O’Leary made in 1963 whileprotecting the citizens of Boston. If anyonehappens to see a damaged or missing me-morial plaque of one our fallen memberslet the BPPA know we will try and have itrestored or repaired. We are now going torepair the memorial plaque of PatrolmanFrancis Johnson who was murdered onMarch 17,1969. His plaque was hung onthe Transportation Building near the inter-section of Kneeland and Stuart Streets andwas vandalized. The plaque for OfficerO’Leary is located at the beginning of theBoylston Street Bridge where Division 16used to be located, next to the stairs adja-cent to the MBTA station.

Remember the media is still out there,criticizing your ability to supplement your

income. Unlike most professions we areregulated on what we can and cannot dofor employment outside of the police de-partment and the amount of hours you canwork. So remember wear your traffic beltsor new bright yellow vest if you have beenissued one, be visible. The person who takesyour picture while you are sipping a colddrink on a hot day does not care that youhave been directing traffic for hours and youare dehydrated. All they care about is theshock and awe value of that particular pho-tograph at that specific time. Also remem-ber to fax your 1.1s and Form 26’s to theBPPA if you get involved in an incidentwhile you are performing a paid detail, thenumber is 617-989-2779, we are keeping arecord of such incidents. The attack on yoursupplemental earnings will never end, it issomething that will always cause debate andsell newspapers when it is a slow news dayor week, remember try not to be that per-son and be cognizant of who is watching you.

I would just like to congratulate newlyordained Deputy Superintendent WilliamGross on his appointment as the Zone Com-mander of Districts 2, 3, 6 and 11. Deputy,good luck in your new position.

Now that the summer months are uponus, you will probably be forced to workovertime and have some of your days offcancelled. So the time you do have off en-joy it with either family or friends. Remem-ber we cannot go back in time and recap-ture it, take a minute and enjoy the fruits ofyour labor. Now in closing be safe, watcheach other’s backs and keep your guard upand remember enjoy your time off, you haveearned it and if anyone has a problem orconcern call me and keep me honest.

The Marching Season(continued from page A3)

ing around on the Boston Common on theirbloated bellies, belching and burping afterhaving consumed breakfast, lunch and asecond-helping helping of vittles fromnearby St. Francis House, are the aforemen-tioned hungry and starving poor folk. Theywill not be walking against hunger, becausethey are too tired to walk. Working peopleoften skip meals and get to eat only once ortwice a day, but the alleged “hungry” peopleget fed three, free meals a day? Americahas starving fat people who could easilyfeed a family of cannibals in Darfur for ayear. Besides, their “disability/ SSI /cuckoochecks” are awaiting pickup once dessertis over, and then the afternoon will be spentdealing drugs on the Common or pesteringmotorists snarled in traffic (because of theWalk against Hunger) shaking coffee cupsin their windows and demanding alms forthe poor so they can get themselves a gal-lon of premium Mohawk-brand vodka.

But of course, (altogether now…) “it’sfor a good cause………”

Now that the summer months are upon us, you willprobably be forced to work overtime and have some ofyour days off cancelled. So the time you do have offenjoy it with either family or friends. Remember wecannot go back in time and recapture it, take a minuteand enjoy the fruits of your labor.


Secretary Spread: Jay Broderick, BPPA Secretary

Sub-contracting opens up adifferent can of worms

written several years ago by the BostonGlobe’s Joan Vennochi. She reported thenthat BHI had produced a “study” which wasopposed to the proposal for wind turbinesin Nantucket Sound. It was then learned thatthe Egan family foundation, a wealthy clanwhich opposed the Cape Wind proposalfrom the start (along with the Kennedy’sand other rich, elitist frauds who own prop-

erty in the area) had paid BHI $100,000.00for the anti-wind farm “study.”

So much for the “benevolent publicwatchdogs.” This proves that, indeed, youdo “get what you pay for,” including thedesired results of your requested “study”(wink-wink, nod-nod). The facts and thetruth, as we have stated all along, are onour side…

Police Detail foes livid about cost analysis study(continued from page A1)

Irecently attended an investigatory hear-ing at the Labor Relations Court concern-

ing the Department’s practice of bringingin outside police agencies during eventswhere larger than normal crowds are ex-pected, such as the World Series and SuperBowl.

The BPPA has filed a number of griev-ances concerning this practice and the casesare pending. This hearing centered on bring-ing in these outside agencies before every-one from this department was ordered towork. The department contends that thereis a special need for the outside agenciesbecause of the training and equipment thatthey possess. That may very well be the casebut that doesn’t mean that they can bringthese agencies into our city without offer-ing and/or ordering our entire departmentto work before these folks come in. I alsorealize that, if we were to win this case, wewill subject our members to being orderedfor some events that they just don’t want towork, but at the end of the day the BPPAmust protect the jobs and work for our mem-bers. The case is about sub-contracting andwe have to toe the line even if it means somemembers may not like the results. TheBPPA has suggested to the department thatthey train all their officers for this duty andequip them accordingly. The Department’sreply is that it will cost too much money.That may be true but what will be next?Will they eliminate the Harbor Unit or theBomb Unit and try to use the State Policeor Coast Guard to do their work? Will theyattempt to create a Central Booking Unitwith the work done by the Suffolk CountySheriff’s Department and do away with theBooking Officer positions? Will they elimi-nate the Tango 55 cars and have that workdone by the Troopers? Sounds farfetchedbut allowing them to continue this practicecan open up an entirely different can ofworms in the future.

As I am writing this, the BPPA haslearned that if the Boston Celtics are in aposition to clinch the World Championship,then all Boston Police Officers will be or-dered into work, even if on a day off. I ap-plaud the department for ensuring that ourmembers work is protected and appreciatetheir attempts to come to reasonable solu-tion to this problem.

A disappointing side is the DBS’leadership’s decision to not force the de-

partment to order their members to worksuch events while allowing other agenciesto come in and do the work. The leadershipof the DBS does not want their membersordered but wants the overtime offered tothem on a voluntary basis. How the DBSthinks that their members are not subject tothe same standards of low man availabilitywhen it comes to overtime is amazing. TheCBA’s of both unions call for overtime to

be distributed and/or ordered on the prin-ciple of low-man availability. In the mostsimple of terms that means if patrolmen(members of the BPPA) are going to be or-dered then detectives (members of the DBS)must be ordered as well. I’m pretty confi-dent that the DBS, rightfully so, would beup in arms if their members were by-passedfor regular overtime in a district or by-passedfor a detail. But when it comes to taking a biteout of the “shit sandwich,” the leadership ofthe DBS takes the easy way out.

Do you think that the InternationalBrotherhood of Teamsters would allow anon-union driver to work because it wasinconvenient for a union member to workor the Laborers Union would let the car-penters work because no laborers wantedto work on a Saturday? Not a chance be-cause eventually they’d concede that workto the other group.

Maybe the solution would be to removethe members of the DBS from the overtime/details list and let them concentrate on in-vestigative work.

In the early 80’s when the detectives leftthe BPPA, legislation was filed saying thatdetectives were “professionals” and shouldnot be part of an organization of “non-pro-fessionals” (I assume that they meant Pa-trolmen and the BPPA). That legislationpassed back then and thus the DBS wasfounded. I’m pretty sure that the DBSdoesn’t mind their members co-minglingwith “non-professionals” on a redline de-

tail or an overtime tour in a rapid car. Toughto have it both ways!

I find the DBS’ response, or lack thereof,ironic in light of the article printed back inDecember of 2007 when DBS PresidentJack Parlon wrote a piece directed at TomNee and Joe Gillespie stating, in part,“…Isay come on home my union brothers! Thelabor movement misses you! And for me,I’m proud to say we have NEVER missed

the call” (The entire article can be read onthe DBS website).

Well Jack, with all due respect, youmissed this one. It’s no secret that the BPPAand the DBS do not always see eye to eyeon every issue. Our primary goal is to pro-tect our members work as is the goal of theDBS. Sometimes each group’s efforts aredetrimental to the other side. It’s not per-sonal, it’s business. If the DBS’ failure tojoin in this fight is because of what theyperceive as the past sins of the BPPA then Ithink that they’re making a huge mistake.Their concerns about their work being doneby BPPA members are understandable butthere are also jobs, which have always beenthe work of BPPA members, which are be-ing done by DBS members. The BPPA hasfiled the appropriate charges and is waitingfor decisions.

My point is that neither group is freefrom allegations of taking the others work.But this isn’t a case of doing each otherswork within the Boston Police Department.This is a case of the BPD bringing in policeofficers and correction officers from othercities and towns to perform work that ourmembers can do and should do. This is thesame point that the DBS raised when theState Police were brought in to investigatehomicides and shootings on State Property.But now, faced with the issue of bringingin outside agencies to perform basic policefunctions in our city, the DBS is silent. Ihave a huge amount of respect for the DBSand their members. They do an outstand-ing job on a daily basis but if this is somesort of “payback” for past issues then so beit. The BPPA will continue to fight for ourmembers’ work and job conditions. It justlooks like we’ll fight this one alone. Some-times being a member of leadership meansmaking the right decision not just the popu-lar one.

At the same time that we are fightingthese cases, the BPPA is working tirelesslyto get legislation passed that will give Bos-

ton Police Officers jurisdiction around theSeaport area of the city. It’s amazing to thinkthat Boston Police Officers have no juris-diction in their own city but that’s the casearound the Seaport. Because the land is con-trolled by Massport, the State Police con-tend that they have exclusive jurisdiction inthe area. They state that they should be do-ing all the police work and that we shouldhave no role. Are you kidding me?

A recent story in the Herald reported thatthere will be 5,000 people moving into thearea in the next few years. There are alsoplans to build a pair of schools in the newneighborhood that would have 2000 stu-dents. The restaurants and bars are licensedby the City of Boston. The residents payproperty and excise taxes to the City ofBoston. If their homes catch fire the Bos-ton Fire Department responds along withBoston EMS. Why doesn’t the Boston Po-lice provide the police service? It’s ourwork. Those people deserve to have thesame level of police service as all the city’sresidents have but if this bill doesn’t pass,they won’t.

This is just one example of why it’s soimportant to protect our work and assurethat we continue to provide the professionalpolicing in our city.

On a lighter note, the BPPA has planneda Family Day on July 20th. The event

will be held at the Brockton Rox and willbegin at 4:00 pm. For those of you whomay not be familiar with the Brockton Rox,they are a minor league baseball teamowned by comedian Bill Murray. Theyplay at Campanelli Stadium next toBrockton High. We have secured exclusiveuse of the picnic area for the game. The kidscan play catch in the outfield from 4:00 pmto 4:30 pm and can run the bases after thegame. There will be an all you can eat cook-out (hot dogs, burgers, chicken, etc) from4:30 pm to 6:00 pm. There is a beer gardenin the picnic area (not that anyone wouldwant to have a beer while watching thegame). The BPPA is picking up half the tabso tickets are just $10 per person and wewill be having t-shirts made for the kids.This is a great chance to spend an afternoonwith friends and family. There is no limiton how many tickets you can purchase butspace is limited (300 people max) so comedown to the BPPA and secure a spot. If youplan on bringing your kids, please get usthe shirt size.

As we did last year, the BPPA has en-tered into an agreement with Six Flags NewEngland and been able to secure discountedtickets at a cost of $25. To get these ticketsjust come down to the BPPA and see AnnMarie or Annie. We also have passes avail-able for the Roger Williams Zoo, Zoo NewEngland, and the Boston Children’s Mu-seum.

Enjoy your summer and stay safe.

The leadership of the DBS does not want theirmembers ordered but wants the overtime offeredto them on a voluntary basis. How the DBS thinksthat their members are not subject to the samestandards of low-man availability when it comes toovertime is amazing.


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pronouncements about the “importance ofprotecting public confidence in law enforce-ment.” Only for police officers, the peoplewho actually do something about crime day-in and day-out.Judges, who are ap-pointed by virtue ofhow much they do-nate to the politicians– Oh, I’m sorry, Imeant to say – “byvirtue of their integ-rity and hard work aslawyers” – their cro-nies and their lawyerfriends will NOT besubject to lie detectortests in order “to pro-tect public confi-dence in law enforce-ment.”

The lie detectortest remains inadmis-sible in criminalcourt for prosecution.But the SJC rulingallows police chiefs,who naturally ap-plauded this decision,to use the inexact andsubjective test for fir-ing officers based ontheir interpretation ofthe results. “Obvi-ously, municipalitieshave a public policyobligation to ensurethat our employees,especially police, are not involved in crime,”said A. Wayne Sampson, executive direc-tor of the Massachusetts Association ofPolice Chiefs.

The guise under which managementcould use this test are obvious and simple-they need only allege that they are “con-ducting an investigation into criminal ac-tivity.” This broad, supercilious umbrellacan, as we all know, be used to justify al-most anything. Under this ruling, if I werea police chief, I could allege that I’m “con-ducting an investigation into a ten-dollar billallegedly missing from the locker room.”That “criminal investigation” rubric nowopens the door for unbridled and unscien-tifically-proven use of the lie detector testby police chiefs on a witch-hunt expeditionagainst their own officers. Or, a suspectcould allege that a police officer used “ex-cessive force” during an arrest. A policemanager could now use the excuse of “aninvestigation into an allegation of criminal

assault and battery by a police officer” tojustify the use – and misuse – of the lie de-tector test. Personally, I won’t be surprisedif officers who are subjected to future lie

detector tests justhappen to be thosewho are among themost outspoken andactive in the policeunions. “PatrickBryant, (a lawyerwith the BPPA’s firmof Sandulli Grace,but representingMASSCOP in thiscase) said the SJChas banned the useof lie detectors in thecourts and thensingled out policeofficers to be tar-geted. “So whywould you subjectpolice officers andonly police officers,to a technology thatis essentially bo-gus?” he asked.

A m a z i n g l y ,Plymouth’s townlawyer, LeonardKesten, said “thecourt set out differ-ent rules for policebecause they haveunique jobs. Youcan’t arrest people,”he said. “We are not

allowed to use deadly force on people; theyare.” Huh? What’s that, Attorney Kesten?The lie detector test, like psychiatry andhypnosis, are subjective, unproven investi-gative tools. So why not use “trial by fire,”“dunk & drown,” or some other medievalmethod to test an officer’s veracity, Attor-ney Kesten? The results would be about thesame. It appears that Attorney Kesten thinksit’s “fun” to arrest people and shoot people,therefore police officers shouldn’t have thesame rights as lawyers and judges. Appar-ently, because of the tremendous responsi-bility placed on our shoulders by virtue ofour jobs, any rights which we previouslythought we had are now gone, courtesy ofthe elitists at your Supreme Judicial Court.What applies to us, does not apply to them.One standard for the blue collar police of-ficer – in order to “protect public confidencein law enforcement,” don’tcha know, andanother for the white collar judges and law-yers. How typically Massachusetts is that?

SJC: Lie detector tests OK… but only for cops(continued from page A1)

Apparently, because ofthe tremendousresponsibility placed onour shoulders by virtueof our jobs, any rightswhich we previouslythought we had arenow gone, courtesy ofthe elitists at yourSupreme Judicial Court.What applies to us, doesnot apply to them. Onestandard for the bluecollar police officer – inorder to “protect publicconfidence in lawenforcement,” don’tchaknow, and another forthe white collar judgesand lawyers. Howtypically Massachusettsis that?

BPPA receives donation from PAL(continued from page A1)

The BPPA has always supported themany community organizations throughoutthe city such as youth sports and neighbor-hood groups. The money that we have do-nated, tens of thousands of dollars, has al-ways come from our general accounts.Thanks to Gerry, this donation will allowthe BPPA to continue to help these deserv-ing groups on an even larger scale.

The leadership and the House of Repre-sentatives of the BPPA, with the help of ourmembers, will continue to identify deserv-ing organizations in need of financial assis-tance.

The BPPA looks forward to workingwith Gerry Ridge and the PAL board incontinuing to have a positive impact in thecommunities that we work.


DISTRICT 4 HOLDS INAUGURALJOHN “BUDMAN” CURLEY BASKETBALL TOURNEY

On Saturday, April 5th, 2007, the men andwomen of District 4 gathered together inthe Cathedral Gymnasium in the South Endfor some good old-fashioned camaraderie,in celebration of one of the great

characters in the history of the Boston PoliceDepartment, John “Budman” Curley. The man of thehour, who is also a recent retiree of the B.P.D., waspresent and participated in a 3 on 3-basketballtournament named in his honor. The tourneyfeatured spirited sportsmanship by all those whoplayed as well as moves not scene since the DVDre-release of the classic sports movie, “Hoosiers.” Thechampionship game proved once and for all that“white men can jump” as the threesome of Hinds,Lenane and O’Donnell left the mouths of thosewatching from the stands agape with their pureathleticism. The Runners up team of Bill Haley, DaranBrown and Jeff Carrio were left picking up thepieces, as well as the tab from the first round oflibations at J.J. Foley’s afterwards. The hours of sweatin the gym followed by the classic tales of JohnCurley in the tavern proved to be a winningcombination for the brothers and sisters of D4 andhave jump-started a pattern for future events.So do stay tuned…

– Jason “Zeke” Ezekiel (Area D-4)

Old School: teammates Brian “The Hammer” Lydon, Arthur“Fletch” Whitkens and “Showtime” Jorge Dias.

Area D4 Legends John “Budman” Curley andJack “Sinatra” Burke sharing stories about the

good old days when “cashies were cashies.”

The Doyle boys (Jojo and Mikey),getting taken to the hole by acouple of D4’s Finest.


Lil’ Ronin Zeke showing theladies his moves at theinaugural “Budman” Tourney.

The Champions of the tourney with theLegend himself, Jack “Vanilla Ice” Hinds,Tim “Hotdog” Lenane andDan “the Worm” O’Donnell.

The Final Four teams in agroup mugshot.

Representing the runner-ups and leftholding the bag was none other than the

soon to be former bachelor and2001 B.P.D. Cadet of the year Bill Haley.


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I remember some time agopeople lined up on both sides of the streetto watch the parade and naturally I wasleading every parade, proudlyWaving in the breeze, when your daddy sawme coming, he immediatelyRemoved his hat and placed it against hisleft shoulder so that the handWas directly over his heart …..remember?

And you, I remember you. Standingthere straight as a soldier. You didn’thave a hat, but you were giving the rightsalute. Remember little sister? Not to beoutdone, she was saluting the same asyou with her right hand over herheart…..remember?

What happened? I’m still the same old flag.Oh, I have a few more Stars since you were a boy.A lot more blood has been shed since thoseparades of long ago.

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First in a Series: “Yellowed News Clippings”

By Anne E. Gallagher, May 6, 2008“I teach only suffering and the transformation of suffering.”

– Gautama Buddha

Iam reflective this time of year, April through May, as Iapproach the anniversary of my dad’s (John J. Gallagher)

death on May 25, 1962.He was shot and killed by Charles Tracy in the basement

of the Shawmut Bank in Boston. Tracy was hiding betweentwo wooden cabinets in a supply room, waiting to shoot who-

The Anniversary

Articles in the series, “Yellowed News Clippings”:The AnniversaryMy introduction to the series of articles with a statement ofmy intentions for my readers.The ScrapbookMy account of my early years of looking for information aboutwhat happened to my dad.The Silent Pain (Adolescence, Young Adulthood)My account of dealing with the loss through high school andyoung adulthood.The Tip of the IcebergMy first realizations that dad’s death had affected me moredeeply over the years than I had acknowledged.The RealizationExplains how getting the details of what happened helped mein my recovery.The Peace, Freedom, and ResolutionWhere I am now as a result of my looking for and finding whatI needed to know.

Boston Police Patrolman John J. Gallagher (1929-1962)

Boston Police Officer John J. Gallagher lies mortallywounded after being shot by Charles Tracy in the basementof the Shawmut Bank in Kenmore Square (exterior shownbelow) on May 25, 1962.

– Photo by Roland Oxton, Boston Record-American

The perpetratorCharles Tracy and the chargeswhich were filed against him.

in at a 90 degree angle. The bullet hit his chest, perforatedthe aorta, and pancreas, and then lodged in his spine. Tracythen stood over my dad and shot once more into his rightthigh. Dad died at Beth Israel Hospital around 6:00 AM.

In memory of my dad and other slain officers, I am writ-ing a series of articles with the hope that it will help familymembers of police officers who were killed in the line ofduty. I am writing too because ours is a unique situation.

It is not unique in the sense of facing death and its after-math. The death of a loved one leaves everyone with the acheof absence at the nightly supper table with the empty chair,and at bedtime without the good night hugs. And, as the yearspass, family members continue to live with the heartfelt ab-sences at the sports games, graduations, and weddings of thechildren, and grandchildren.

Though such an absence makes death, at time un-bearable, for anyone who faces the loss of a loved one,the violent death of a police officer adds another di-mension of pain.

Violence is inexplicable, unpredictable, unjust, in-tense, severe. When a family member leaves for workand does not return because of a sudden, aggressiveexchange with a criminal, this type of loss creates ablack hole. It is pointed and jagged like stucco. Withinits gravitational force, we are pulled back with noescape from the haunting question … “What hap-pened?”

This is the acute pain that is unlike any other. Itis the pain that makes our confrontation with deathunlike anyone else’s.

ever came through the door. That early Friday morning, itwas my dad.

After Tracy and my dad shot at each other, dad fell to thecement floor on his back, gun in hand, and his right leg bent

And so, I am writingthis piece to let you knowthat I understand. You arenot alone. It is possible tometamorphose the shat-tered, jagged pieces, andlive again.

“I know, God,” wroteEtty Hillesum, a Jewishprisoner in a Nazi con-centration camp, “thatyou cannot help us, [wewill not escape], but youcan though, help me tohelp others while we arehere.”

The photos which appear on this page were submitted, approved andrequested by Anne Gallagher, daughter of slain Boston P.O. John Gallagher.


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Veterans’ Corner: Pat Rose, C-11

Boston Police VFW Post #1018 ElectsBrendan McCarthy New Commander

Let’s start this article with congratulationsto the newly-elected Commander of

Boston Police VFW Post #1018, BrendanMcCarthy of the BPD Identification/Pho-tography, Crime Scene Response Unit.Brendan is a 14+ year veteran of the Bos-ton Police Department and a Veteran ofForeign Wars due to his tour of duty in Ko-rea, (which after 55 plus years is still con-sidered a Combat/Hazardous Duty Assign-ment). Outgoing Commander ChristopherColby, who had a very successful two yearsas Commander will take up the reigns ofPost Quartermaster. Congratulations arealso in order for George Murray, (PastCommander), who has been elected as theState of Massachusetts VFW Junior ViceCommander, on the road to running thewhole show, A Job Well Done!

Many of our Police Family brothers andsisters have been activated and have sincereturned over the past seven years, and I’msure many will follow. Unlike some indi-viduals (both civilian and uniformed alike)within the Boston Police Department, whohave actively been researching every pos-sible way to Harass and Screw with Veter-ans in time of War, or deny employment toCombat Veterans!, we, the Veterans repre-senting the Patrol Force of the BPD, con-tinue to pray for the safe return of all. Wecontinue to pledge our allegiance to theseindividuals and will never waiver from ourcommitment and promise to be there for youand your families. I would like to remindall; of the BPPA commitment to provide a$500.00 a month stipend to each and everyunion member activated over a 90 day pe-riod. That stipend will be issued up to 5months per activation and has been verybeneficial to members in the past. The unionhas also agreed to waive all union dues anddental payments for those same membersfor their entire activation. Please forwardany questions concerning your union ben-efits to your respective representatives.Don’t forget that the State of MassachusettsMAP (military assistance program) chair-man Jorge Castro, is a member and formerCommander of Post #1018, Jorge is avail-able through the Post to assist any and all.As always, I am available to any and allVeterans (regardless of rank or position)seeking assistance in righting the currentbias and discrimination being directed atCombat Veterans. Be assured that I am incontact with both State and Federal Veter-ans organizations and Attorneys to developstrategies and if necessary, law suits, to endthe harassment and force the compliancewith current laws. (Shame on those; whowould prey on the defenders of your free-dom and liberty!)

Award Update: The U.S ARMY has re-cently begun issuing an ARMY Sea DutyRibbon. This retroactive award is for sol-diers who log sea duty and now includesNational Guard and ARMY Reserve troops.

The ARMY Sea Duty Ribbon was origi-nally approved in 2006 to include soldierswho have served aboard ARMY vessels,this award is retroactive to August 1st, 1952.TheARMY Transportation Corps recentlyupdated the award’s qualification to in-clude the National Guard and ARMYReserve. To be eligible, active duty sol-diers must complete two years of cumu-lative sea duty on a Class A or Class Bvessel. Guardsmen and reservists musthave two creditable years in a U.S. wa-tercraft unit, which must include at least25 days underway during each year andtwo annual training exercises underwayon a Class A or Class B vessel or a 90day deployment aboard an ARMY vesselunderway. This ARMY Sea Duty Ribbonis the first non-campaign ribbon approvedby the U.S. ARMY in more than twentyyears. If Qualified; send your request to:e-mail: [email protected].

Upcoming Events: We are pleased toonce again host the Annual Boston PolicePatrolman’s Golf Tournament at the post onJuly 18th, if interested in playing this year,please contact the BPPA @ 617-989-2772.Our annual Toys for Tots motorcycle runwill be held on Sunday, September 14th,commencing at 12:00 sharp, $15.00 perperson plus $10.00 per passenger or 2nd

guest, $5.00 for kids, this includes the cook-out and afternoon of festivities. Sign up/lineup for the run will begin at 11:00 that morn-ing. The Military Ball will be hosted onSaturday, September 6th from 7:00 pm –

midnight, I’m sure the food and entertain-ment will be worth the trip to the post.

Recent Events: Recently the BostonPolice VFW Post #1018, sponsored a ‘CarePackage Drive’ to Support Our Troops. ThePolice Post, in conjunction with the J.D.O’Bryant ROTC and the 723rd Transporta-tion Company (U.S. Army Reserve) ofRoslindale, have been collecting items tobuild care packages for our troops servingoverseas. A true community effort culmi-nated with personnel representing these fineorganizations along with members of the‘Boston Football Bandits’ volunteeringthere time in building these ‘Care Packages’. On March 16th, all of these groups got to-gether at the ‘Post’ and made a day of it,collecting items, picking up donations andultimately packaging up the donations andforwarding them to our troops. The troopshave already received them and have beenin contact with the ‘Post’ thanking all fortheir support and caring!

I would like to thank the Boston PoliceHonor Guard for their outstanding dedica-tion and professionalism shown on Memo-rial Day. As always these officers showedup early and ready to perform. Under thedirection of Sgt. James Neal, they assistedin the annual Memorial Day tribute anddedication to our fallen comrades. Whileothers consumed their burgers and dogs,drank cold beer and soda, frolicked at cook-outs and reunions around town, these gentle-man arrived at the Boston Police VFW Post#1018 in uniform and standing tall, the

creases in the uniforms sharp enough toshave with and shined boots & brass thatrequired sunglasses to look at. The BPDHonor Guard, (most of whom are also onthe Post #1018 Honor Guard), assisted inconducting our ceremony with dignity be-fitting the day. With no fanfare, and miss-ing family gatherings and cookouts, someof these same individuals spent the restof their weekend assisting at local cem-eteries in honoring our departed com-rades. I would also like to thank all whoattended.

Honorable mention also for the outstand-ing job done by the BPD Honor Guard rep-resenting the Police Post and the BostonPolice Department at the Annual Massachu-setts VFW Convention. This year’s paradehad a Special Guest ‘LVUS’ aka retiredPolice Officer and Post Adjutant MartyColumbo. Marty not only entertained thepublic and the Troops along the paraderoute, he put on a spectacular show Satur-day night. (You never know what yourgonna get, when Marty shows up!)

Just a reminder that the post hours are:3:00 pm – 2:00 am seven days a week. Duesare only $30.00 per year. Monthly VFWmeetings are held in the upper hall on thethird Monday of each month at 7:30 pm,(only exception is July and August). Theexecutive board meets the third Mondayeach month at 6:00 pm. The annual meet-ing will be conducted in accordance withthe published by-laws on the second Tues-day in July 2008 at 6:00 pm.

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Boston Police Sergeant William F. HealeyKilled in the Line of Duty: October 2, 1946


By Ray Melo

It was a warm Wednesday evening on Oc-tober 2, 1946. America had recently

emerged from World War II with bloodiedknuckles, but was now the global superpower. Thousands of GI’s returned hometo start their new lives to a thankful nationwhile thousands of soldiers did not. Godbless them! The Nuremberg Trials wereunder way and some of the Nazi bastard’swere sentenced to death or imprisoned.America was settling down to heal itswounds and reap the benefits of a globaleconomy and military might.

Sergeant William Healey’s tour of dutystarted at 5:45 P.M. He’s happy tonight ishis short night. He gets off at 12:15 A.M.but has to return tomorrow night at 12:15A.M. and work until 7:45 A.M. He is thePatrol Supervisor, and he drives around inhis squad car checking on the walking beats.Fate had it and he stopped at Tremont andChurch Street to chat with a citizen a littleafter 9:00 P.M.

Fritz Swenson, 23, of Roxbury, is asmall time thug with a taste for criminalactivity. He was recently advised by hisbrother, Russell Swenson, that he movedseveral items of silverware and other valu-ables into a 2-1/2 story apartment buildingat 24 Fayette Street in the South End of Bos-ton. Russell Swenson worked for a movingcompany and took special note of the items.

Fritz Swenson developed a plan to wel-come the new occupants to the neighbor-hood by robbing them of their belongings.Days later Fritz Swenson meets WilliamGouda, 20, of Roxbury in a local club.Swenson asks Gouda if he would like tomake some fast, easy money? Gouda, anaspiring thief himself, says yes. Swensonadds Joseph MacEachern, 39, anotherthug of Roxbury into the mix.

The plan of the assembled blockheadsis that Swenson and Gouda would knockon the apartment door with a fake telegram,barge their way in at gun point and tie theoccupants up. They would grab all the valu-ables and MacEachern would drive up withthe getaway car and then they’ll drive off

into the sunset.It’s about 9:00 P.M. and Swenson’s plan

is set into motion. Gouda and Swenson walkup and knock on the door of 24 Fayettestreet with the fake telegram. No one an-swers the front door so the two armed vil-lains creep into the rear and force their wayinto the back door.

The newly moved-in occupants, collegeroommates Eugene Metz, 24, WalterFulton, 23, and his girlfriend, TheresaZazzos, 23, enjoyed a late dinner at a nearbyrestaurant. After dessert, the threesome ca-sually strolled back to their apartment lo-cated at 24 Fayette Street at about 9:25 P.M.Mr. Metz recalled, “As we walked back toour apartment we observed a Police Officermaking conversation with another man aswe rounded the corner to our apartment.”

It’s dark out and Mr. Metz flicks on thevestibule light. The three lumber up thesqueaking wooden steps to their first floorapartment. Their night is coming to an endand they finish their chuckles and conver-sations for the day as they make their wayinto their apartment. Metz observes his sil-verware and other personal belonging piledon the floor next to a opened suitcase. Thehallway light partially shining into the apart-ment alerts him. He turns into another roomand finds it ransacked with a frighteningsilhouette of a figure standing motionlessin the dark. Metz heads for the light switchand the intruder, Gouda, demands, “Don’tturn on the light!” Metz disregards the warn-ing and then Gouda attacks.

A tussle ensues and Gouda pulls out hispistol and fires one shot wildly into the dark-ness. The darkness is briefly interrupted bythe mussel flash. The fight turns into astruggle for life and another shot rings out.Ms. Zazza screams in horror and she andWalter Fulton race down stairs screamingfor help in the deserted street.

Meanwhile, Swenson, who is on the sec-ond floor ransacking the rooms hears thecommotion. In his haste to escape he breaksthrough a rear window and jumps down ontop of a flimsy shed and falls through theroof. When he crashes to the floor he drops

his fully loaded 32 caliber Colt pistol, nowstrained with his blood. Swenson injureshimself as he made his egress.

Gouda throws Metz to the floor and Metzis kicked in the face and is disabled. Goudasays, “If you try to stop me I’ll kill you.”Gouda grabs thestuffed suitcaseand quicklylimps out down-stairs. The limpthat Gouda nowsports is due toa gun shotwound to hisleft foot. Theidiot shootshimself during the scuffle.

Sergeant Healey, standing at Church andTremont Street, a mere 50 yards away hearsthe gunfire and races towards the source.He is met by the roommate, Walter Fulton,who frantically cries out, “Over there, it’s aburglar and he has a gun” Sergeant Healeyintuitively removes his department issuedrevolver and dashes towards the front en-trance of 24 Fayette Street.

Within seconds two different worldly at-titudes will collide with terrifying conse-quences.

Simultaneously, from the top step Goudaburst opens the front door to run with theloot while Sergeant Healey steps onto thefirst bottom step. The coward immediatelyfires two .32 caliber bullets into the sergeantat point blank range. One life-ending bulletpierces the heart of the rescuing officerwhile the other bullet dug into his rightthigh. A numbing pain races through thestricken officer and he stumbles back andfalls to the city sidewalk on his back. Hiscold revolver, hammer back lies beside him.Life immediately starts to leave his injuredbody. Sergeant Healey sees his assailant andhe hears the stolen silverware bounce aboutfrom within the suitcase as the sound andfigure fade into the night.

A neighbor, Mrs. Louisa Graves, fromacross the street quickly dials the emergencynumber for police at D-E-8-1212. She then

runs outside to aid Sergeant Healey. Thethree roommates stand close by shaken andstunned.

At about 9:30 P.M. PatrolmanMaddock, of the Turret, radios PatrolmanStahler and Farrell in radio car 4-R to re-spond for a man shot on the sidewalk infront of 24 Fayette Street. The turret thencalls the Division 4 station and the stationalerts the police call boxes in that area.Route Officer, Patrolman Ball, receives thecall and responds. Patrolmen Mosher,Coffey, McDonald, McGrath, Morgan,and Spitz with Divisions 3 and 4 ambulanceare en route.

Officers find Sergeant Healey bleedingand unconscious. He is raced to Boston CityHospital by an ambulance of Division 3.Upon arrival, Dr. James Jessup pronouncesSergeant Healey deceased. Boston PoliceSergeant William Francis Healey waskilled in the line of duty protecting life andproperty for the citizens of Boston.

Officers from around the city convergeon the crime scene. Officers find the stolensuitcase the murderer was carrying aban-doned in a parking space at Tremont andChurch Street. Officers and detectives wereordered to check rooming houses, hospi-tals, taxis, and buses. “Find any lead youcan!” Police Superintendent EdwardFallon declared, “The entire force is work-ing on this case, and everything possible willbe done to apprehend the murderer.” PoliceCommissioner Thomas Sullivan person-ally questioned witnesses at the Division 4Station.

Mrs. Margaret Healey was attendingan engagement shower with close friendsin Charlestown. A friend and neighbor,Mary Ahern, called the celebrating partyand broke the news that Mr. Healey hadbeen shot by a burglar. Special OfficerDoherty, whose daughter the shower wasfor, was on his way to take Mrs. Healey toBoston City Hospital. Once there she learnsof her husband’s death.

The murderer and his accomplices makeit back to their homes. The next day the triolearn of Sergeant Healey’s death andMacEachern flees the state while Gouda andSwenson elude police. Two days after themurder, Gouda knows he can’t seek pro-fessional medical attention for his woundedfoot, so he decided to go to a friend, GeorgeLarson, living on Vine Street. Larson worksat Boston City Hospital as a medical assis-tant and Gouda tells him what happened andLarson pledges secrecy. Larson cleans anddresses the wound and Gouda returns home.

Boston Police get a big break in the case.George Larson calls the Boston Police soonafter because he is fearful that he would beimplicated in the murder. Officers stormedthe Gouda home at 118 Cedar street inRoxbury and he was arrested. Hours later,police storm Swenson’s residence at 102Winthrop street and he was arrested.

After six hours of interrogation, Gouda


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Killed in the Line of Duty: Boston Police Sergeant William F. Healey(continued from page A27)

confesses that he shot Sergeant Healey.Gouda went on to tell detectives the wholescheme. Soon after the bullet was removedfrom Gouda’s foot and the ballistics unitconfirmed the bullet removed from Gouda’sfoot, and the bullet removed from SergeantHealey were fired from the same pistol.

As the two villains were being processed,the American flag-draped coffin of SergeantHealey sits in front of the alter of SaintTheresa’s Church in West Roxbury like amonument. The draped American flag istestament that Sergeant Healy served hiscountry, and now his coffin is testamentthat Sergeant Healey served the City ofBoston.

The church is crowded leaving no chancefor an echo. White tissue paper throughoutis constantly wiping away tears. It’s diffi-cult to fathom that just a few days ago awonderful husband, father, and friendshared the same air we all breath, but nowdenies it. Sergeant Healey’s two youngdaughters, Barbara, 13, and Patricia, 12,walk out of St. Theresa’s Church ahead oftheir mother. The fatherless girls walk outinto a different world, both beautifullydressed and sobbing. A grief-stricken Mrs.Healey wearing black is escorted out of thechurch while being held by family mem-bers.

Over two thousand police officers standin formation. Dignitaries and well wishersline up for the somber walk to Saint JosephCemetery. An army detachment gives amilitary 21 gun salute and the thunder ech-oes through the cemetery. The bugler playsTaps to a final salute. Flags on all policedepartment buildings were kept at half-mastfor thirty days as a tribute of respect for thefallen officer.

Patricia Healey King recalled, “My fa-ther was very funny! He always made uslaugh. He had a great sense of humor. Myfather was always busy. On his day off hewas always doing something either in thehouse or helping out a neighbor. He was awonderful, loving man. When my fatherwas killed, my mother had to learn how todrive. Dad did all the driving.”

Joseph MacEachern was eventuallycaught in California and extradited back toBoston. On April 26, 1947, William Goudaand Fritz Swenson were found guilty of2nd degree murder and sentenced to life inprison at MCI Walpole, MA. Joseph

I want to thank Mrs. Mary Norton of W. Roxbury for allowing me to get intouch with Mrs. Kathy Libin. Kathy is the daughter of the late Barbara HealeyGorman. Kathy, thank you very much for your time and for allowing me to asksensitive questions. It was a pleasure to talk with you and thank you for allowingme to get in touch with your Aunt Patricia Healey King. Thank you, Mrs. King,for giving me the opportunity to ask you questions about a very sad time in yourlife. Thank you for your candidness and I’m so very sorry to the Healey family thatyou lost your father.

Please send your comments to [email protected]– Ray Melo

MacEachern was found not guilty in themurder of Sergeant Healey, but was heldfor the indictments charging burglary androbbery. In 1972, William Gouda was re-leased from prison. The filthy scumbag onlyserved 25 years for killing a police officer.Didn’t he get a life sentence? It is unknownwhat happen to Swenson.

Boston Police Sergeant William FrancisHealey was shot on October 2, 1946, andwas Killed In The Line Of Duty. SergeantHealey was born October 14, 1897, in Bos-ton, MA. He was appointed July 27, 1928.He worked in Divisions: 1, 8, 2, 19 and 4.In June of 1940, Officer Healey wasawarded the Department Metal of Honorfor help saving nine men during the hurri-cane of 1938. In May of 1945, he was pro-moted to sergeant. Sergeant Healey servedin the U.S. Army as a machine gunner in

the infantry during World War I. He washonorably discharged in 1919. He was sur-vived by his wife, Margaret Healey and twodaughters, Patricia, 12, and Barbara, 13.Sergeant Healey was buried in his uniform

and is laid to rest at St. Joseph Cemetery,West Roxbury, MA. Sergeant WilliamHealey, you may be gone, but you are notforgotten.

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My pipe-dream collegecommencement speech:“WHY YOU’RE HERE”

By Jim Carnell, Pax Centurion Editor(Editor’s note: As I recently attended a college graduation and listened to speakers

drone on ad nauseum about their visions and accomplishments and ideas, etc. etc., mymind drifted to what I’d really like to hearfor a truly inspiring commencement address.Of course, that speech will never be heardor seen except for here on the illustriouspages of the Pax Centurion, but I thoughtI’d give it a shot anyway….)

Dear College graduates,

Congratulations on your accomplishmentin earning a degree. Your parents are

thankful for the photo-op you have giventhem today, although they will undoubtedly remain in indentured servitude to the studentloan companies who will soon be calling to collect the debt which you, college graduates,will be “temporarily unable to pay” because you are either finding yourself or travelingthe world looking for the meaning of life before you succumb to that thing called “work”which your parents will continue to perform long past their planned retirement dates. Andthat concludes my focus on you, college graduates.

Because you are not responsible for your being here. Stop congratulating yourself.Neither are the pointy-headed, overwhelmingly liberal academics sitting behind me. Andneither are your parents, believe it or not, although they are far more deserving of ac-knowledgment than either yourself or these idiot professors.

No, graduates, the people responsible for you being here, for the luxury of attendingcollege and getting drunk and/or educated, were 19 and 20-year old kids who died a longtime ago on a beach named Utah or Omaha in Normandy (that’s in a place called Francewhere people don’t bathe regularly, women have hairy armpits, and they eat cheese thatsmells like feet). Other young adults perished in places called Hue, Okinawa, Guadalcanal,Bastone, Fallujah, Beirut, and a lot of other places that only a few of you would be able tofind on a world map (if you could find a world map, that is).

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Compiled by Patrick Carnell, Canisius College, Buffalo, New YorkPORTLAND, OR – Police officers in Portland, Oregon, are still waiting for an apology from

Barack Obama after campaign staffers of his recent rally in Portland, Oregon, setup porta pottiesdirectly on top of the Portland Police Memorial, which honors the agency’s 25 fallen policeofficers….Officer Thomas Brennan, who was working overtime at the rally, took a picture of theoffending toilets, with the American flag still at half mast because of Police Officers MemorialDay, directly behind them. The local law enforcement memorial service had been held at the siteonly five days earlier.…The Obama campaign has not responded to requests for an apology”

– Policelink.com, 5/30/08

It’s debatable whether Obama or his staffers were aware of this, but the Portland leftists whoorganized the rally? Oh, you can bet they were. Words like “decency” and “good taste” cannever be used in the same sentence as “leftist,” except in an ironic, sarcastic manner.

“Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, appearing for the first time since his capture five years ago, saidhe would welcome becoming a “marytr” after a judge warned Thursday that he faces the deathpenalty for his confessed role as mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.”

– Associated Press, 6/6/08

I, for one, welcome his martyrdom as well. Although according to the rest of the article, for aman so devoted to Allah, Khalid doesn’t actually seem too eager to meet him very soon, exercis-ing every option available – refusing counsel, feigning insanity, fake suicidal impulses – to avoidexecution…which will actually make his inevitable descent into hell all the more satisfying.

“Pakistan will ask the European Union countries to amend laws regarding freedom of expres-sion in order to prevent offensive incidents such as the printing of blasphemous caricatures ofProphet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) and the production of an anti-Islam film by a Dutchlegislator, sources in the Interior Ministry told Daily Times on Saturday.”

– The Daily Times (Pakistan), 6/8/08

Sounds sort of like, “Nice continent you have. Would be a shame if something, you know,happened to it.” It gets better, too:

“...the delegation would also tell the EU that if such acts against Islam are not controlled,more attacks on the EU diplomatic missions abroad could not be ruled out. Sources said that thedelegation would also hold discussions on inter-religious harmony during its meetings with theEU leaders.”

Basically, they’re saying, “Limit your free speech…or else”…followed by discussions of “har-mony,” the word being defined in this case as, “Getting along fine on our unconditional, nonne-gotiable, imposed-by-threat- of-violence terms.”

SKOWHEGAN, Maine - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has sent a proposal tothe Somerset County commissioners to lease their jail for the world’s first Lobster EmpathyCenter. “A prison is the perfect setting to demonstrate how lobsters suffer when they are caughtin traps or confined to cramped, filthy supermarket tanks,” PETA wrote in a June 2 letter to thecommissioners. “The center will teach visitors to have compassion for these interesting, sensi-tive animals while also commemorating the millions of lobsters who are ripped from their homesin the ocean off the coast of Maine each year before being boiled alive.”

– Bangor News, 6/3/08

“Interesting, sensitive animals?” They’re razor-clawed sea-insects that feed on waste andGod-knows what at the bottom of the ocean. They do not feel pain, they do not feel emotions, andthey do think. No lobster that has ever been caught in a net has ever thought to itself as it wasbeing dragged up, “Damn, things were just starting to turn around for me, too.” Oh, and one ofthe stated featured exhibits at this place would be to tightly lock visitors into a small, hot roomfor a certain amount of time, so that they “know what it feels like,” in effect, to be lobsters kept ina tank in a supermarket. PETA people know how to party.

“But Seattle Parks and Recreation might do what even this week’s chilly weather couldn’t —douse the long tradition of beach bonfires at Alki and at Golden Gardens.Park department staffis recommending reducing bonfires at the two beaches this summer and possibly banning themaltogether next year. The park board will hear the recommendation Thursday, and the city plansto run public-service announcements and hand out brochures later this month about the effectsof bonfires on global warming.”

– Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 6/5/08

Another example of environmentalists seeking to stamp out even the slightest bit of fun otherpeople might have to do penance for the horrors we commit against Mother Gaia. They willnever outlaw private Learjets, however…Al Gore needs them to fly around the world to beratecommoners for the crimes against the earth.

News Brieflets…News Brieflets… By Patrick Carnell,Canisius College, Buffalo, NY

On the first Friday of May eachyear, Canisius College students

celebrate “Quad Party,” a campus-wide celebration of the last day ofclasses before finals week.This particular year, Buf-falo mayor Byron Brown,also known as “Urkel,” feltthat Quad Party posed asevere, imminent dangerto Hamlin Park, where theCanisius campus is situ-ated. The mayor nobly an-nounced that it was hisduty to protect the neigh-borhood from the vague,unspecified “reckless,”“out of control” behaviorthat plagued the previousyear’s Quad Party, inwhich a student fell off alow porch, and a scandal-izing seven people wereticketed for open containerlaws…and also that the fact that hehappened to live in the neighborhoodhad absolutely no bearing on hisplans. The local gangbangers andcrack dealers were put on hold for theday – as they have been every daysince Brown took office, feeling thatthe Praetorian Guard of two policecruisers he keeps outside his house 24/7 are adequate protection for the en-tire neighborhood – drunken studentsmight toss empty cans onto his lawn!

And so Byron made good on hispersonal crusade, eh, “promise to thepeople,” and somewhat successfullymanaged to bring 5,000+ college stu-dents under control…at the low, lowcost of $15,000 an hour for 16 hoursfor 50 Buffalo police officers, 30 fromdepartments from surrounding sub-

urbs, the S.W.A.T. team, K-9 Unit,Erie County Sheriff department offic-ers with guns strapped to their thighs,armored CBRNE vehicles, and a mo-bile command post set up outside thefreshman dorms, in addition to thealready present Canisius Public Safety(which also provide free security forByron’s neighborhood) . And al-though not a single arrest was made,or any injuries sustained, let it not besaid that this was “overkill”: the threat

of open containers was effectivelystamped out by the issuing of 17 tick-ets throughout the day! What’s more,the absolutely necessary law enforce-ment presence gave 13 people some-thing to think about when their cars

were ticketed. Never mind the schools,the MS-13 and other gangs, the lackof jobs and dwindling population, orany of the other problems that putBuffalo behind only Detroit as themost directionless city in thecountry…if the mayor’s house is sur-rounded by drunk college students fora day, then the entire city may as wellbe suffering its own 9/11, and everylast taxpayer dollar must be spent tocombat this menace just short of mili-tary action.

Once the threat to the lives of thewomen and children of Buffalo posedby drunk Pre-med students wascrushed, however, the public outcryand drop in his approval ratings forcedByron to explain himself, with weakexcuses about unspecified “past inci-

dents” and the“unacceptability” ofunderage drinking.For one thing, Byronhas no problem withunderage drinking,as he made clear inDecember 2006,when he (literally)begged Canisius’Public Safety not torelease surveillancefootage of his(trashed) 16-year oldson side-swiping fiveparked cars with the

family SUV outside the dorms, afterthe Buffalo Police video was mysteri-ously “misplaced.” Nor does he havea problem with “incidents” occurringin his neighborhood, as evidenced byhis total indifference to crime there(which he expects the school to pro-vide a solution to, among other ser-vices), or at the yearly “Blaine BlockClub Block Party,” which, based onits history, would require the presence

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MAMLEO complains, Pax Editor respondsPax Editor JamesCarnell’s responseAngela M. Williams-Mitchell, PresidentMass. Assoc. of Minority Law EnforcementOfficers61 Columbia Rd.Dorchester, Ma. 02121

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Dear Madame President,I am in receipt of a letter addressed by

you to BPPA President Tom Nee. As ex-pected, your letter avoids the issue, omitsany mention of Mr. Jamarhl Crawford,and attacks the messenger with baseless ac-cusations of racism. Unfortunately, manymembers of the Boston Police Departmenthave been cowed into silence by your ca-sual and frequent use of this scurrilous al-legation. Unfortunately for you, I’m not oneof them.

The issue is simple and straightforward:why did you, Angela Williams-Mitchell,President of MAMLEO, allow an avowedracist and well-known cop-hater namedJamarhl Crawford, National InformationMinister for the New Black Panther Party-to use your facilities under the pretense of a“community meeting”. That is the issue.

Jamarhl’s racist crap can be easily lo-cated on-line at www.newblackpanther.com,where he lists himself as “AKA Nat TurnerDevil Burner” (Guess who “the devils”are?) The website’s accompanying assort-ment of “F— the police” rap songs, racistbooks, articles and newsletters are an ex-tra-special treat, but you probably know thatalready.

I assume, Angela, since you are Presi-dent of MAMLEO and were present at themeeting organized by the racist Crawford,that you authorized the use of MAMLEO’sfunction hall which provided the all-impor-tant façade of credibility for Jamarhl’s“bash-the-police” freakshow. As I statedin the Pax article, if the Emerald Societyhad allowed David Duke to use their hallin Roslindale Square or if the BPPA hadallowed Aryan Nations skinheads to use ourfacilities, there would be hell to pay, andrightfully so. But you allow this racist cop-hater the use of your hall to host a meeting,and the silence is deafening. What a glar-ing example of the double-standard in ac-tion.

It should concern you, Angela, thatJamarhl is the “National Information Min-ister” for a group which Attorney MorrisDees of the Southern Poverty Law Center(www.splcenter.org) identifies as “an anti-white / anti-Semitic hate group”. Addition-ally, as a police officer, I would certainlyhope you are disgusted by Jamarhl’s overtlyanti-police rantings. As I’m sure you’reaware, Jamarhl makes a point of showingup at high-profile incidents involving ourofficers, such as shootings or car chases,where he attempts to incite anti-police sen-

MAMLEO President Angela M. Williams-Mitchell’sLetter to the PAX


Reprint of the original responseto the Boston Banner article appears on page B9.


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Some of you may have read about re-cent decisions from our state Supreme

Judicial Court involving allegations of ra-cial profiling and selective enforcement oftraffic laws. These cases arose out of StatePolice traffic stops resulting in vehiclesearches which revealed evidence of drugsor other contraband. On May 20, 2008 theSJC published the decisionof Commonwealth vs. Lora,451 Mass. 425, as well astwo companion cases. InLora defense counselclaimed that racial profilingand selective enforcementregarding a traffic stop vio-lated the equal protectionguarantees of the Massachu-setts Declaration of Rights and that the evi-dence seized in the course of that stopshould be suppressed.

According to the opinion the defendantLora, on December 20, 2001, was travel-ing within the speed limit, without swerv-ing or other erratic movements, in the leftlane of Interstate Route 290 in Auburn. AState trooper followed the vehicle operat-ing in that manner for three quarters of amile observing two dark skinned occupants.He stopped the vehicle for traveling in theleft lane while the center and right laneswere unoccupied. The driver had a sus-pended license but Mr. Lora, the owner ofand passenger in the vehicle, had a validlicense and registration. Mr. Lora got outof the vehicle while talking on his cell phoneand then re-entered the vehicle. The trooperapproached the vehicle and observed a smallglassine bag containing white powder whichappeared to be cocaine. Troopers thensearched the trunk finding a substantialamount of cocaine at which time Mr. Loraand the driver were arrested.

Defense counsel contended that the traf-fic stop was a result of racial profiling andthus violated the defendant’s right to equalprotection under the law. Defense counselfiled an affidavit with the Court indicatingthat he had reviewed 256 citations writtenby the same trooper between August 22,2001 and February 18, 2002. That reviewindicated that the trooper had cited the op-erators of 51 vehicles on the same stretchof Route 290 during that period. 31.37 per-cent of those operators were Hispanic and11.76 percent were African- American.Defense counsel then compared the percent-age of citations with the racial compositionof the Town of Auburn which is 97.5 per-cent white, 1 percent Hispanic, and 6/10thsof a percent African-American. Id. at 429.During that same period of time evidenceshowed that the same trooper had cited 89motorists on Interstate 290 as it passedthrough the City of Worcester. 83.15 per-cent of the motorists cited in Worcester werewhite, 7.87 percent Hispanic, and 6.74 per-cent African-American. In the populationof Worcester white residents account for

77.1 percent of the population, Hispanicresidents 15.1 percent, and African-Ameri-can residents 8.0 percent, according to theopinion. Id. at 430. The trooper testified thatthe stop of Lora was motivated solely bythe operator’s failure to keep right.

Each side called an expert during theevidentiary hearing on the motion to sup-

press. The defense called a research scien-tist from the Harvard School of PublicHealth. On cross-examination this expertadmitted that his conclusion that racial pro-filing was a factor in the trooper’s disparatetraffic stop rates was based upon an assump-tion that the demographics of the Town ofAuburn reflected the demographics of mo-torists on Interstate 290. Id. at 433-434.TheCommonwealth’s expert, a Ph.D. in crimi-nal justice from Northeastern University,concluded that the statistical method utilizedby Lora and his expert was “highly likelyto yield misleading and erroneous conclu-sions.” She particularly criticized the as-sumption that the demographic profile ofthe community is identical to the demo-graphic profile of the drivers on the inter-state highway system in that community.She pointed to the fact that 90 percent ofthe motorists cited by the trooper on thatstretch of I-290 were in fact not from thetown of Auburn, “conclusive evidence thata residential or census benchmark comingfrom Auburn is totally inappropriate [as apoint of comparison].” Id. at 434.

The opinion concludes that equal pro-tection principles of the Fourteenth Amend-ment and Articles 1 and 10 of the Massa-chusetts Declaration of Rights prohibit dis-criminatory application of impartial laws.However, because arrest and prosecutionbased on probable cause are “ordinarilycloaked with a presumption of regularity,”the Court held that the defendant bears theburden of demonstrating selective enforce-ment. Id. at 437. In order to sustain thatburden the defendant must present evidenceraising “‘at least a reasonable inference ofimpermissible discrimination,’ includingevidence that ‘a broader class of personsthan those prosecuted had violated the law. . . that failure to prosecute was either con-sistent or deliberate . . . and that the deci-sion not to prosecute was based on an im-permissible classification such as race, re-ligion or sex.’” Id. at 437 and cases cited.The Court held that once the defendant sus-tains that burden then the Commonwealthhas the burden of rebutting that inference.(The defendant Lora did not contend that

he was charged with trafficking in cocainebecause of his race, rather he contended thatthe traffic stop that led to the discovery ofthe cocaine was unconstitutional.) TheCourt held that the application of the ex-clusionary rule, i.e. suppression, to evidenceobtained in violation of the Constitutionalright to equal protection is legally appro-

priate. Id. at 438-439.The Court went on to examine the sta-

tistical evidence presented in the Lora case.In examining this issue the Court comparedthat evidence to the statistical evidence pre-sented in a New Jersey case in which evi-dence was presented of “rigorously pre-pared surveys” which were conducted on astretch of the New Jersey Turnpike in whichboth the racial makeup of motorists simplytraveling on the road as well as the racialmakeup of motorists observed committingtraffic violations were observed. Accordingto that study 13.5 percent of the motoriststraveling on that section of the New JerseyTurnpike were black, while observed vio-lators of traffic laws were approximately 15percent black. The stop data in that caseshowed that 46.2 percent of the stops wereof black motorists. Id. at 441-442. The SJCcited to the “far-ranging effects within NewJersey” of the decision in that case.

The SJC held that “statistical evidencemay be used to meet a defendant’s initialburden of producing evidence to raise a rea-sonable inference of impermissible dis-crimination.” However, the Court said that,“At a minimum, that evidence must estab-lish that the racial composition of motor-ists stopped for motor vehicle violationsvaried significantly from the racial compo-sition of the population of motorists mak-ing use of the relevant roadways, and whotherefore could have encountered the officeror officers whose actions have been calledinto question.” Id. at 442.

The Court then went on to hold that theevidence presented by the defendant in Lorawas insufficient to rebut the presumptionof good faith in the probable cause basedstop. The Court ruled that the use of “cen-sus benchmarking” comparing the “demo-graphics of a small community with cita-tion ratios on a major interstate highway,which happens to pass through it is unreli-able and not accepted in the scientific com-munity.” Id. at 443. When the Court com-bined the citations issued by the trooper inboth Worcester and Auburn and comparedthem to the combined demographics, amuch more balanced picture was presented.

A review of the 140 motorists cited in bothWorcester and Auburn reflect that 72.9 per-cent of the motorists cited were white, 16.4percent Hispanic, and 8.6 percent African-American, a rate very close to the combineddemographics of both Auburn and Worces-ter. While emphasizing its grave concernsabout any practice of racial profiling the

Court concluded that in or-der to present such a case adefendant must produce evi-dence that similarly situatedpersons were treated differ-ently because of their race, aconclusion not supported bythe evidence outlined abovewith regard to this particularstretch of I-290 as contrasted

with the New Jersey statistical data. TheCourt reversed the motion judge’s order sup-pressing the evidence.

In two companion cases decided thesame day, the Court addressed the practicalissues of discovery regarding allegations ofselective enforcement or racial profiling. InCommonwealth vs. Thomas, et al, 451Mass. 451, the Court vacated the order of adistrict court judge which directed the Com-monwealth to produce to the defendantsstatistical data derived by the Common-wealth from uniform motor vehicle citationsissued by a particular State Trooper. TheSupreme Judicial Court held that thedefendant’s discovery motion should havebeen denied as it sought statistical evidencewhich was not in the possession of the“prosecution team” such as the Colonel ofthe State Police and the Registry of MotorVehicles. The defendant had sought all ofthe particular trooper’s citation books, au-dit sheets and “any other information” con-cerning whether the trooper had engagedin “profiling, stereotypical thinking andhunches, or [had] used dubious investiga-tive techniques.” Id. at 453. The SupremeJudicial Court held the motions were de-fective in that they were vague and over-broad and “sought to compel the Common-wealth . . . to engage in legal and judgmen-tal evaluations” to ascertain whether or notthe trooper had engaged in racial profiling.Id. at 455. The Court ruled that the “Com-monwealth cannot be ordered to respondto discovery motions by the defendants toconduct statistical analysis of informationthat is not in its possession, custody, or con-trol or to make legal evaluations about un-specified ‘other information’ that may ormay not be relevant.” Commonwealth vs.Thomas, Id. at 455-456.

In Commonwealth vs. Betances, 451Mass. 457, defense counsel filed a motionfor police reports of all motor vehicle stopsconducted by a particular trooper for a sevenmonth period in 2006. The trial judge or-dered the production of those records. TheSJC vacated the trial court’s order statingthat, “A categorical, and unsupported, re-


Some of you may have read about re-cent decisions from our stateSupreme Judicial Court involving allegations of racial profiling andselective enforcement of traffic laws. These cases arose out of StatePolice traffic stops resulting in vehicle searches which revealedevidence of drugs or other contraband.


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The New Division of Labor RelationsHow are they doing?

Last year, Sandulli Grace, P.C. AttorneyAmy Davidson wrote an article for the

Pax describing a much anticipated, andsorely needed, revolution in the way theMassachusetts Labor Relations Commis-sion handles unfair labor practice cases.Now that the agency has begun implement-ing the requirements of the September 2007legislation, we would like to update you onwhat to expect.

The former “Labor Relations Commis-sion” is now one-third of the “Division ofLabor Relations.” All three state labor agen-cies (the Labor Relations Commission, theBoard of Conciliation and Arbitration, andthe Joint Labor-Management Committee)have been consolidated into one agencyknown as the DLR. The three-member de-cision-making body formerly know as the“Commissioners” of the Labor RelationsCommission is now known as the “Com-monwealth Employee Relations Board,” orthe CERB.

The DLR plays a vital role in the day today business of police unions. When theemployer makes a unilateral change inworking conditions; repeatedly refuses tocomply with your contract; or retaliatesagainst employees for protected activity orspeech, your union’s sole avenue of legalredress is to file a charge at the DLR. If theDLR does not function properly, the em-ployer can effectively violate your rightsunchallenged for years.

For example, the collective bargaininglaw, G.L. c. 150E, would prohibit a city ortown from changing paid detail proceduresunless the city first proposed the policy tothe union at the bargaining table and bar-gained in good faith. For the employer toimplement such a change without bargain-ing would be a clear violation of the law,and subject the employer to penalties. How-ever, under the old rules, the probable causedetermination did not issue until at least sixmonths after the union filed its written sub-mission, and in many cases the delay wasmuch longer than six months — sometimesup to two or three years. If the LRC foundprobable cause and issued a complaint ofprohibited practice, the hearing wouldsometimes take place within a few months,but the decision could take two or threemore years to issue. With such significantdelays, an employer that unilaterallychanged paid detail procedures would havefree rein to impose those changes for yearswhile the union’s unfair labor practicecharge languished at the LRC. In effect, theunfair labor practice would turn into the sta-tus quo. Obviously, the system had to befixed.

New ProbableCause Procedure

A significant cause for delay under theold system was the requirement of lengthylegal briefs and detailed affidavits just toget to the probable cause stage. The newadministration has taken an important steptoward eliminating this delay by implement-ing an in-person investigation procedure.Under this system, the union only has tofile a charge identifying the facts giving riseto the charge, and the DLR will schedulean in-person investigation conference be-fore a single Hearing Officer, who will takethe probable cause process from beginningto end. (Under the old system, a HearingOfficer would review the brief and affida-vits, and summarize them for the threeCommissioners, who would have to delib-erate and vote on whether to issue a com-plaint – a far more cumbersome and time-consuming process.)

At the in-person investigation confer-ence, the Hearing Officer will ask the ques-tions necessary to determine if there is prob-able cause. Each party has one hour to makeits presentation. The parties may submitwritten arguments or exhibits, but are notrequired to do so. Neither affidavits norsworn testimony are required. Again, with-out the required “written submission,” pre-paring for the presentation will be simplerand less time-consuming. Once the Hear-ing Officer has gathered the available evi-dence at the investigation conference, he orshe will make the probable cause determi-nation and either issue a complaint or dis-miss the charge. The DLR has set a goal ofhaving Hearing Officers issue probablecause determinations within two weeks af-ter the close of the investigation.

There have not been many in-person in-vestigation conferences since the new ruleswere implemented, but based on the oneswe have attended so far, we are hopeful thatthe new procedure will have the desired re-sult of streamlining the probable cause pro-cess. An important benefit to the in-personinvestigation is that it brings the parties’ rep-resentatives together for at least one meet-ing so that settlement may be discussed.Often the reason for filing a charge is thatthe union learns of a change in workingconditions, files a demand to bargain or aninformation request, and is ignored. Requir-ing the employer to attend a conference atthe DLR forces the employer to answer forits actions and explain its refusal to respondto the union’s inquiries. In contrast, the old“written submission” procedure allowedemployers to hide behind their legal repre-sentatives’ briefs and affidavits. We are al-ready impressed with the Hearing Officers’efforts to settle cases at the in-person inves-tigation conferences, and we are hopefulthat such efforts will continue.

Hearing OfficerDecisions

Another reason for the old agency’s de-lay in resolving cases was the requirementthat every decision issue straight from thethree-person Commission. A Hearing Of-ficer held the hearing, but the three Com-missioners – none of whom presided overthe hearing – were in charge of decidingevery case. The Commissioners even re-served for themselves the right to rule onsmaller issues, such as motions and subpoe-nas. For obvious reasons, a huge backlogbuilt up over the years.

The new DLR is dealing with this prob-lem by empowering Hearing Officers tomake binding decisions in the first instance.The parties to the dispute will have the rightto appeal the Hearing Officers’ decisions tothe CERB, but if there is no appeal, theHearing Officer’s decision is binding. Thisis a return to the procedure in place prior to1996, when the LRC started requiring ev-ery dispute to be decided by the full three-person Commission. Hearing Officer deci-sions have historically been well-researchedand carefully reasoned, and the HearingOfficers have always made an effort to re-solve the parties’ dispute as completely aspossible. As a result, many Hearing Officerdecisions were not appealed. The DLR’spresent complement of Hearing Officers,some of whom have worked for the DLRfor many years, are experienced andthoughtful labor attorneys. We hope that,like their predecessors, they will continueto issue decisions that answer all of the par-ties’ questions and eliminate the need forappeals to the full CERB.

Board of Conciliationand Mediation

Under the old procedures, only the threeCommissioners were available to help theparties engage in settlement negotiations,and if those negotiations failed, the processcould be slowed even further because themediating Commissioner would then beunable to take part in the decision in thatcase. However, the new labor agency legis-lation combined the LRC with the Boardof Conciliation and Arbitration, a stateagency whose primary purpose has been toassist parties in mediating their disputes. Asa result, seasoned mediators from theBC&A are now available to mediate unfairlabor practice charges without depleting thenumber of DLR Hearing Officers and Com-missioners available to decide the casesshould they not settle.

Staff ShortageOne of the most insurmountable prob-

lems facing the Labor Relations Commis-sion over the years has been chronicunderfunding and, consequently,understaffing. As I mentioned above, theaddition of the BC&A’s mediators shouldhelp. Another attempt at increasing staffingis the reduction from three full-time Com-missioners to one full-time Commissionerand two who work on a per-diem, case-by-case basis, with the Commissioners’ onlyfunction being to decide appeals of Hear-ing Officer decisions. This should free upsome of the Commission’s personnel bud-get to hire more Hearing Officers.

BacklogUnfortunately, there is still a huge back-

log of cases leftover from the prior admin-istrations’ efforts to slow labor relations byclinging to the old time-wasting procedures.The new DLR is saddled with the unenvi-able task of clearing up this backlog withlimited staff. However, some money hasapparently been made available to the DLRto deal with this problem, because the DLRhas hired some new attorneys, on a tempo-rary basis, to review the leftover writtensubmissions and issue probable cause de-terminations.

The DLR appears to be focusing on is-suing probable cause determinations anddecisions in new cases, rather than tryingto clear up the backlog of cases filed underthe old administration. For example, theBPPA filed a charge in 2004 challengingthe City of Boston’s decision to bypass itsown officers in favor of officers inNEMLEC and METROLEC to providesecurity at the 2004 World Series at FenwayPark. Three and one-half years later, wehave not received a probable cause deter-mination in that case. The City committedthe exact same violation at the 2007 WorldSeries, and the BPPA filed a charge chal-lenging that violation as well. The Com-mission has already held an in-person in-vestigation conference on the 2007 charge.

� � � � �In summary, the new version of the La-

bor Relations Commission will have to bean improvement over the old version – itwould be hard for it to get much worse. Thenew procedures appear likely to remedy theold problems. However, you can still ex-pect delays and confusion as this vital stateagency works out the kinks in its new sys-tem. We will keep you informed.


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Re: Boston Banner article,“Police Safe Homes Plan leads to heated debate”

Dear Boston Banner Editor Howard Manly,As editor of the Boston Police

Patrolmen’s Association’s Pax Centurionnewspaper, I often read local newspapersto keep abreast of matters of relevant inter-est to my members. But I must say I wasshocked and outraged while reading yourpage-one headline (Feb. 28, 2008) in theBoston Banner entitled “Police Safe Homesplan leads to heated debate.” The story con-tains the following information: “…themeeting was held… at the Dorchester of-fices of the Massachusetts Association ofMinority Law Enforcement Officials(MAMLEO) organized by JamarhlCrawford, a member of the New BlackPanther Party and editor of the websitewww.blackstonian.com

Mr. Manly, a quick, publicly-availablesearch of the internet reveals the followingmissive taken verbatim from the winter,2008 edition of The New Black PantherParty’s newsletter, of which “JamarhlCrawford” is listed as “National Informa-tion Minister and Boston Chapter Chair-man” (page 14 - “Who polices the police?”

by “The honorable Dr. Khalid AbdulMuhammad”)

“…The white man is not a devil but THEdevil. He’s the number one murderer, thenumber one robber, the number one raper,the number one lyncher, the number oneenslaver, the number one colonizer. …hisvery existence is owed to the shedding ofblood of the Black man and the Blackwoman. There would be no white race if itwere not for the genetic engineering, thegrafting, the birth control, and the specialprocess by which the white man came intoexistence…”.

That is but a small sample of the gross,disgusting racism espoused in the newslet-ter printed by “National Information Min-ister Jamarhl Crawford” who “organized”the meeting which was reportedly attendedby yourself, State Senator DianneWilkerson, City Councilor ChuckTurner, MAMLEO President AngelaWilliams-Mitchell, ACLU Attorney Sa-rah Wunsch, and a host of other dignitar-ies. As you must surely be aware, the South-ern Poverty Law Center lists the “New

Black Panther Party” as a hate group andidentifies it as a “separatist group…whichadvocates an anti-Semitic/anti-white phi-losophy.” Mr. Manly, if I were ever in at-tendance at a meeting organized by, for ex-ample, David Duke of the KKK or Rich-ard Butler of Aryan Nations/Church of theNew World Order, I would and should becondemned, and I am fairly sure that theBoston Police Department would want toknow what I was doing in the presence ofsuch despicable, overtly racist individuals.And if my union, the Boston PolicePatrolmen’s Association, were ever to al-low our facilities to be used by detestablehate groups such as the aforementioned, Iimagine that the local media would a havefront-page field day, as well they should.

But New Black Panther Party NationalInformation Minister Jamarhl Crawfordhosts and organizes a “bash-the-police”meeting at the offices of MAMLEO and thesilence is deafening. Why any person wouldallow themselves to be in close companywith a virulent racist such as Crawford isquite simply astounding and disturbing. Avile individual such as Crawford who es-pouses racist claptrap should be condemnedand banished from the midst of all decentcitizens. But clearly, the typical liberaldouble-standard is at play here. As I spoke

with the ACLU’s Sarah Wunsch, I got thedistinct impression that she felt Mr.Crawford had made a “significantcontribution…despite his group’s affilia-tion” (her words, not mine) to the commu-nity by organizing the meeting. Employingthe same logic, one could say the Ku KluxKlan contributes to the community by pro-viding illumination and warmth at theircross burnings.

I sincerely hope, Mr. Manly, that you andothers present at the meeting would makean effort to publicly condemn Mr. JamarhlCrawford and his racist philosophy, evenas he uses the façade of MAMLEO to holdhis “community meeting.” This glaring ex-ample of duplicitous standards does noth-ing towards building trust between the com-munity and the police. As the communitymust trust the police, so must the police trustthe community. The presence of a vile rac-ist such as Jamarhl Crawford as an orga-nizing force behind the meeting destroysany good intentions it might have had. Rac-ism, in any form and espoused by anyone,is still racism. I hope you feel the same, andtrust that you are as repelled by Crawford’ssick and demented rantings as I am.

Sincerely,James W. Carnell

Editor, Pax Centurion

Pax Editor James Carnell’s response toMAMLEO charges(continued from page B3)

timent and hurl inflammatory accusations,which places our members in jeopardy.

I surmise that your boiler-plate excusefor associating with this racist/cop-hatermight be “Crawford is still a member of thecommunity” and/or “He has a right to hisopinion.” You accuse me of “hiding behindthe first amendment” and attempt to silenceme with your cavalier accusations of rac-ism, but I assume you’d quickly jump tothe defense of Mr. Crawford’s right to ex-press his opinion. You speak of engaging in“objective and open-minded discussions”.How does somebody do that when you’reassociating with an out-and-out racist cop-hater? We represent one color here at theBPPA: blue. Our job is to protect policeofficers, without regard to race, color orcreed. You, unfortunately, separate every-thing into issues of black and white. JamarhlCrawford specializes in undermining po-lice-community relations with his inflam-matory rhetoric. Personally, I wouldn’t bewithin a mile of Crawford or his racist ilk,but that’s for you to explain, not me. In myexperience, those who most often point thefickle finger of racism at others are usually

closet practitioners themselves.In closing, Angela, it might interest you

to know that the Pax is not “financially sup-ported by the contributions of the entiremembership,” as you allege. The Pax is self-sustaining through advertising revenue, isfree of charge to our entire membership, andprovides the $40,000.00 in scholarshipmoney which is distributed to our member’schildren each year, by random drawing andwithout concern for any member’s race,ethnicity or religion. Please write againwhen you decide to repudiate your asso-ciation with the racist, cop-hating JamarhlCrawford. Per your request, I will gladlyprint your letter of May 2, along with thisreply, in the upcoming May/June issue ofPax Centurion. The original article, ad-dressed to Boston Banner Editor HowardManly (“Police Safe Homes plan leads toheated debates”) will also be reprinted inthe May-June 2008 Pax Centurion for thosewho may have missed it.

Sincerely,James W. Carnell

Editor, Pax Centurion

April 28, 2008

Chairman George AlexanderNew York State Division of ParoleWoodbourne Correctional FacilityWoodbourne, NY 12788

Re: People vs. John Mackenzie

Dear Chairman Alexander,We are writing on behalf of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association. The BPPA

represents the almost 1.600 men and women who serve as Police Officers in the cityof Boston, Massachusetts.

The Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association urges the New York Division of Pa-role to reject any consideration of parole for John Mackenzie.

As you know, Mackenzie was convicted of the murder of Nassua County PoliceOfficer Matthew Giglio. Though every murder is senseless and impacts many, nomurder does as much to erode the fabric of society as does the cold blooded murderof a Police Officer who is performing his duties for the community that he serves.Granting parole, to an individual such as Mackenzie, will only send a message to thecitizens of New York that they are not safe and remove any fear that a criminal mayhave when confronted by law enforcement. If John Mackenzie was convicted of thiscrime today, the possibility of parole would not be an issue.

The Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association urges you to reject the privilege ofparole to John Mackenzie and send a message to those individuals, who bring vio-lence to our neighborhoods, that society will not stand for it.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Respectfully,

Thomas J. Nee Ronald T. MacGillivrayPresident Vice President

John D. Broderick Jr. Thomas N. PrattSecretary Treasurer

Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, Inc.

BPPA urges rejection ofparole to a still-dangerous

prisoner in New York The above article, reprinted from thePax Centurion, March/April, 2008 issue

led to the MAMLEO reaction and the responseby Pax Editor James Carnell on page B3.


Dad’s medals

By James Barry,BPPA Legislative Agent

Iwas amazed to find that police details war-ranted a front page story in Sunday’s Bos-

ton Globe. The headline, “Officials punt onpolice details.” A slap at the legislature andthe Governor for not outright killing of po-lice details.

Do we take the hit on details... of coursewe do. The outright lies of David Tuerckof Suffolk University, Michael Widmer ofMass. Taxpayers, Steve Silveira, a con-nected Republican lobbyist, JohnPorbouix of Construction Industries ofMassachusetts, (close friend of Big DigFiasco leader Jim Kerasiotes and somelow flying politicos... keep on a chant thatnever stops. They appear to have friendsin both the newsroom and editorial boardof the Globe. No big surprise there either.The Globe has always leaped at thechance to whack a cop.

In accordance to the law that passed re-garding the use of police details; the Secre-taries of Transportation and Public Safetyare now in the midst of promogating rulesand regulations for the use of police detailson Mass. Highway projects. Fact: There wasno law against using flaggers before thiseffort began.

The agendas of all the above men wasevident when they all showed up during thefirst public hearing held at the transporta-tion building where the regulations are be-ing developed. David Tuerck of SuffolkUniversity was angered that “the law didn’tgo far enough” and stated that “this was alla waste of time.” Michael Widmer echoedthe very same statement. This is before anyother testimony, evidence or exhibits wereoffered. Neither man is willing to even hearany facts contrary to their own opinion. Yetneither Michael Widmer or David Tueckhold any credentials, have any background

Do we take a hit on details?… Of course we do!

By James Moccia

Irecently lost my father, George, and would first like to express my appreciation toall for their condolences and prayers. My Dad was a WWII vet, and as part of my

legacy, I inherited his medals. They were prominently displayed in his home in Florida,and will take a place of honor in my home. My own sons asked what they were for,and for some of them I was at a loss. I could easily explain the significance of hisPurple Heart and Combat Infantry Badge, but had to do a little research on the others.Like so many of his peers, my father didn’t tell many “war stories,” for whateverreasons.

It turns out many were just for showing up, such as the Soldier’s medal, Army ofOccupation, and Volunteer (he entered the Service in September of 1941). Now, Idon’t mean this in a disrespectful way, because it got me thinking; “where would webe if these guys didn’t just show up?” No doubt many of us would be prisoners orlampshades. We certainly wouldn’t be enjoying these freedoms so many of us takefor granted. They were just regular guys, like us, who showed up, although somemay have done a little more, and some made the ultimate sacrifice, all for us.

Now looking at these medals, I realize just how important showing up can be.Maybe our society would be in better shape if more guys showed up, to be a father, orcoach, or teacher, or voter. We know about showing up, nights, weekends, holidays,parades, playoffs, Super bowl, and the rest. Sacrificing time with our families andfriends, but I digress.

My point is this; many of us (cops, EMS, et al) have been awarded medals duringour careers. Some of them were issued for showing up (DNC, 20 years) and somewere for showing up and doing something (Hannah, Schroeder). We have co-work-ers who EARNED the medals, and what do we do? We bust their chops;” Hey is thatthe Legend starter kit?” or “What’s that one for, a hot dog eating contest?” There area million wisecracks we’ve all heard. Instead of ridiculing each other, we shouldcelebrate our accomplishments. We should display these medals on our uniformswith the honor and dignity they deserve. Maybe next time a defense attorney, pro-tester or bookworm decides you need a dressing down, they may pause and recon-sider. So, go to property and get them, wear them, and be proud of them. YOU earnedthem. Happy Father’s Day to all.

or have even plausible working knowledgeof traffic mangement, workzone design orpublic safety.

Both Tuerck and Widmer have such highopinions of themselves to believe that theyand they alone have the right the answerfor the use of police details. Steve Silveirais carrying water for some client or potencialclient down the road and John Porbouixof CIM has been wanting to increase prof-its for his companies since Big Fiasco JimKerasiotes was in power. The Globe’s ownbias against police details has lead to thisfront page demagoguery. Both Tueck,

Widmer and Porbouix have used the falseclaims of huge savings by the use of flaggersand some have called for repeal of the pre-vailing wage laws and undercutting of thecollective bargaining laws in order to do so.This is their real agenda.

The facts are straight forward; there isno law in Massachusetts preventing the useof flaggers, there is little to no cost savingsfor replacing a police officer with a civilianflagger and the public’s safety is lessenedby the use of a civilian flagger versus a uni-formed police officer on road constructionprojects.

Re: Boston Heraldarticle, “Officials punt

on police details”Dear Editor,

Once again, in your thoroughly biased,front-page article entitled “Officials punt onpolice details”, (Boston Herald, May 25th)you ignore facts related to the use of civil-ian flagmen and simply regurgitate the anti-police rhetoric of the Beacon Hill Institute’sDavid Tuerck and Michael Widmer of theMassachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. Thefact is that under Massachusetts’ prevailingwage law, the rate for a flagman /signaler is$37.50 per hour, not including even higherrates when factoring in overtime, night,

Letter from the Pax Editor

weekend or other specialty rates. The ratefor a Boston Police Officer is $34 or $37,depending on location, and does not changeregardless of any other factor. So much forthe alleged “cost savings.”

But still, the myth of the minimum-wageflagman persists, mainly because the anti-police lobby wants to perpetuate it. Neverlet the truth get in the way of a good story….

– James W. CarnellBoston Police Patrolmen’s Association

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The BPPA has received a request from Sgt. Bill Heard of the LAPD. Sgt. Heardis an Army Medic who is about to deploy back to Iraq for his third tour.

Sgt. Heard is looking for used police equipment that he can give to Iraq PoliceOfficers. He is specifically looking for used body armor, collapsible batons, hand-cuffs and keys, and rechargeable flashlights. He is also in need of classroom typeitems for training these Police Officers.

If you want to donate any items, Sgt Heard can be reached at:SFC Bill HeardC/O B Company 1-185th Combined Arms Battalion2501 Fairmount B1Riverside, CA 92501or at… [email protected]

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Dear Union Brothers and Sisters:I am writing to pledge my full support to the police officers of the Commonwealth by

stating my wholehearted opposition to the proposal put forth by the Governor and thelegislative leadership of both the House and Senate to reassign the supervision of publicconstruction work sites in Massachusetts.

This proposal, as well intentioned as it may be, will jeopardize the safety of the work-ers and put the general public at great risk on a daily basis. To propose that civilian flag-wavers are a solution to the financial shortcomings of the Massachusetts transportationsystem is to minimize the value and importance of having a well-trained police officer on-site. Public construction sites are dangerous. The machinery used on these sites, even onsmall projects, is dangerous. At a moment’s notice a tragedy can strike. The police offic-ers on duty at public construction sites are trained and prepared to act immediately insituations of life and death when literally seconds matter most.

As State Representative and as President of Laborers Local 223, I would not want tohave to explain to the family of one of my members or my constituents that their lovedone could have been saved or helped but the Commonwealth couldn’t find the money andinstead decided to have a civilian flag waver present instead of a trained public safetyprofessional.

I would implore that the Governor, Senate President, and Speaker of the House lookahead to the potential dangers that await workers and the public if this proposal is put intoplace.

Sincerely,MARTIN J. WALSH, State Representative

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Re: Hub coughs upbig bucks in sick time

Ifound the article “Hub coughs up bigbucks in sick time” (Boston Herald, May

28) both appalling and insulting to the thou-sands of dedicated Boston employees whoserve the public on a daily basis.

I have worked for the city for nearly 20years in one of its three public safety enti-ties and, like so many others, learned earlyon in my career that 911 responses nevertake a holiday. Serving the public in ourgreat city requires a 24/7 commitment year-round, which we all have willingly accepted.

Sick time is precious and is accrued on amonthly basis in accordance with eachentity’s collective bargaining agreements.There are thousands of employees whothroughout their double-digit careers havemade that extra effort to come to work.These are the people who repair a brokenwater main at 3 a.m. in subzero tempera-tures or the firefighter who climbs an icy

ladder to reach the outstretched arms of atrapped person. These include the policeofficer who without hesitation becomes in-volved in a foot pursuit down a darkenedalley or our EMTs and paramedics who treatand comfort the sick and injured regardlessof where and when.

Yes these are the same people who atthe end of long dedicated careers end upwith hundreds and sometimes thousands ofunused earned sick time hours which thecity will only buy back a portion of. For mepersonally it’s 35 percent of nearly 2,200hours, which means that I will be forcedto forfeit nearly 65 percent of a year’s pay.I wonder how the bureaucratic beancounters who never work beyond 5 p.m.or on weekends and holidays would feelif they were forced to forfeit 65 percentof their money.

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For you see, college graduates and anti-war idiots who know everything, freedomis not free. Oh, I know, it sounds cliché, butit’s true. Your freedom to do and say as youwant does not come from your idiot col-lege professors …. who were until nowseated behind me but have now left thestage. And it does not come from lawyersor politicians or activists or from your stu-pid, self-aggrandizing protest marches in thequad. Freedom and liberty and democracyand justice and all of the other marvelousideals which you college students frequentlydemand and pay lip service to are derivedfrom the armed might, the bravery and thecourage of the soldiers, sailors and airmenwho currently serve and previously servedin our armed forces, many of whom nevercame home and never attended college.Whether you want to believe it or not, thereare people in North Korea, in Iran, in Syriaand a lot of other places who absolutely,positively hate you. They want to kill you,because you are an American and they areintensely, violently jealous of what you haveand the opportunities that are before you.Trapped in a religion that would propel usback to the twelfth century or adhering toan ideology that glorifies death over life,they don’t care about your commitment topeace and equality and justice and jobs andhealth care for all and puppies and trees andeco-friendly policies which embrace theKyoto accord and all of that other crap. TheyHATE YOU. And they want to KILL YOU.Do you understand that, Muffy, Biff, Chip-per? Can you wrap your mind around thatone?

My pipe-dream college graduation speech:“Why you’re here”(continued from page B1)

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Joe the Boss returnsHi everyone, I’m back after a little hia-

tus. First of all I’d like to report on theannual Florida trip. Almost all of the usualsuspects showed up except the big guy (BigMike). He had family health issues that hecould not leave behind.

Over on the Gulfstream track side wedid the usual things, going to the track, hav-ing a few brewskies, making a few wagers,which translates into increasing the bankroll (ha ha), and playing a little golf. In mycase I did three of the four. I’ll let you fig-ure out which one I skipped. All in all thatpart turned out okay.

After a week I wandered a little north toPalm Beach with a couple of buddies. Wewere on a little mission. We cruised the in-tercoastal to make sure very thing was okay.After all Tiger and some of the other bigtime golfers were off some place hitting thatlittle ball on the ground that doesn’t move,

so somebody had to make sure all the bigboats and properties were okay. Hey butwhat are friends for.

Then it was off tto Fort Myers. Theweather was great and we relaxed on thebeach. A few times we got very relaxed.There was one thing missing. The Big Guywasn’t around to kind of stir up the action,if you know what I mean. Hopefully nexttime around things will be different.

Then it was time to come home. Shortlythereafter the Triple Crown of horseracingwas upon us. This is a great time of year forhorseracing fans. They have the so calledKentucky Derby trials to see who is goingto qualify to get in “the race” on the firstSaturday in May.

As it turned out twenty horses werepicked to start in the Derby. Then the postpositions were drawn a few days before therace. A horse by the name of Big Brown

drew the 20 hole, the last of the post posi-tions. Big Brown went off as the favorite. Iwas a little skeptical of his chances. Herewas a lightly-raced horse (3 races), althoughhe won them convincingly and also draw-ing the most-outside post position. For thoseof you who watched the race you remem-bered how easily he won the race. Then theraves started to pour in. The next superhorse, the savior of racing and soon.

The next leg of the Triple Crown wasthe Preakness. He was again a huge favor-ite and once again did not disappoint. Thenmore accolades started to pour in. Horsepeople, owners, trainers, jockey and fansstarted to call him “super horse”, a lock forthe Triple Crown, the first Triple Crownwinner in 30 years.

His trainer compared him to the greatSecretariat who in 1973 won the Belmontby 31 lengths. The trainer also said if it washis last race he would tell his jockey, KentDesormeaux, to open him up and he thinkshe would come very close to the 31 lengthvictory. After listening to everybody I waseven convinced of this greatness.

On Saturday myself and a few friendswent to Suffolk Downs to watch the coro-nation. But alas it did not happen. Peoplewere rooting for him even if they didn’twager on him. The Belmont is a grueling

1-1/2 mile race. Everything has to go rightto win at this demanding distance. Whilethe race was unfolding Big Brown was in agood position and on his cruise control butwhen it was time to call on him for more hecame up empty and wisely KentDesormeaux eased him. Prior to the racehe developed a quarter inch crack in hishoof. The trainer, owners, and medicalpeople assured everyone that he was fine. Ithink he was okay or they wouldn’t risk in-juring him or worse because they riskedlosing a lucrative breeder. The run for theTriple Crown is a demanding 3 race sched-ule in five weeks maybe that was all it tookto do him in. We’ll see down the line whenhe takes to the track again. Well as the RedSox used to say wait till next year. That’sall for now.

Thanks,Joe “The Boss”

P.S. While poking around the BPPAunion hall I came upon some old Pax’s andin them where articles that almost every sta-tion used to submit. They were mostly aboutarrests but they could be about anything.Perhaps each station could submit an articleand let the rest of the city in on “what’sgoing on.” Sounds like a song title. Just athought. I think only Station 11 does onepresently.

Legal Thoughts(continued from page B5)

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“demonstrating a reasonable basis to inferthat profiling, and not a traffic violationalone, may have been the basis for the ve-hicle stop. It is not sufficient, as is the casehere, to aver speculation that profiling maybe occurring . . .” Id. at 462.

On one hand the above outlined deci-sions recognize the legal validity of statisti-cal analysis as a basis for equal protectionbased contentions regarding traffic stops.On the other hand the Court seemed to set avery high and rigorous legal and factual barwhich would have to be reached before ra-cial profiling might serve as a basis for sup-pression. Discovery was likewise somewhatrestricted. The only thing that seems cer-tain is that the controversy will continue.

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I would like to change a few of the current Anti-War stickers to read; “Attack myWallet – NO’’ and “Get out of my Pocket NOW” to show how I feel.

Gas is now about $4 a gallon and the Global Warming folks are worried about thePolar Bears. Guess what, when they’ve taken your gun away and your car runs out ofgas, you will become that bear’s snack. Let’s save the Polar Bears by feeding themthese wackos, it is all organic after all.

Have you ever been giving someone directions and in the middle of it they starttelling you how to get there. Here are a few zingers you can try…

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PAXCENTURION Section CPAXCENTURION Section C

Flip card triage: The dumbing down of dispatch

EMS DivisionEMS DivisionUnity & StrengthUnity & Strength

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In MemoriamErwin F. Hirsch MD, FACS 8/1/35-5/23/08

By Gregory Bond, Paramedic 216

T o begin with, this article is not directedtowards those members who may work

in dispatch operations.I, like most people, fully understand that

the problems which exist in the turret are notthe doing of the rank-and-file who are forcedto work under certain conditions, but those whomay impose such conditions onto them.

Many years ago, all 9-1-1 calls cominginto our system were answered by EMT’swho, not unlike today, were fully trained inthe ability to triage and provide over-the-phone instructions to those citizens in need.

Based on their extensive experience andknowledge base, dispatch personnel wereextremely adept at handling the large vol-ume of calls coupled with finite resourcesto enable the system to run as smoothly asit did.

Unfortunately, as it is with any system(including the current one), a number ofmistakes were inevitably made leading tosome high profile deaths as a result. In theaftermath, one of the more notable changesinstituted was the implementation of a new“standardized” version of dispatch proto-cols.

In the years since the switchover therehave been a number of small revisions butthe basic premise has remained the same.

Instead of utilizing the skill and exper-

tise of the call takers, members were forcedto strictly adhere to a series of flip-cardswhen answering a 9-1-1 call. Regardless ofthe nature or extenuating circumstances ofa given situation. If a minimum basic crite-ria is met then it must be triaged and en-tered into the system as a specific type code,thereby generating a response based on thattype code.

This has led to inappropriate triage andtype coding of calls on a wide scale, andinevitably placing increased and unduestrain on a system that is already stretchedto the limit.

The ironic thing is that the “flip-card tri-age” system was developed through certainnational standards as set forth by the NFPAand other similar organizations. For start-ers, these are fire department-based com-mittees who have failed to account for anumber of factors. The first are resources,which as we all know has never been a prob-lem for fire services in any major metro-politan areas. For EMS providers, scarceresources are generally the norm, thus re-quiring a different approach towards utili-zation of those precious few.

If you have trucks and personnel com-ing out of your ears then there probably islittle harm in “over sending” resources tocalls. However, if you are like us, juggling300 plus calls a day between 20 ambulances,

then it is better for all if you are more dis-criminating in how you use those ambu-lances.

The definition of the French word “tri-age” means to do “the most good for themost people.” The basic premise behind itrecognizes that prioritizing medical patientsfor treatment is essential in order to save asmany as is humanly possible. It also real-izes that not all can be saved and inevitablythat lives will be lost as a result.

Triaging is a common and broadly ac-cepted practice that is used in all medicalfacilities, hospitals, and 9-1-1 call takingcenters around the country and the world.

When faced with “flip-card” dispatchhowever, the concepts of appropriate triageand dispatch have been the first casualties,and have contributed to the further break-ing down of our system.

Because of our limited resources andhigh call volume, the system is usuallystretched thin in short order, thereby quicklydegenerating into a system more akin to“first come-first served” ambulance service.Based on the time of day and place whereyou may calling from, it is quite probablethat you will not receive the appropriatelevel of response and care based on the na-ture of your emergency. This is not the faultof the call-takers or dispatchers, it is the re-sult of the conditions under which they are

forced to work.Unfortunately, it has become quite ap-

parent that the focus of this system is basedsolely on quantitative measures as opposedto actual quality control. Members are con-stantly under watch and receive ongoingperformance review surrounding the timein which they enter a call and send it out tothe trucks. This of course is the easiestmethod of tracking, as everything is timestamped and logged into the computer sys-tem. Other factors, such as the accuracy oftriage and diagnoses of the problems are harderto perform and as a result, just not done.

It is a sad state of affairs when my part-

By Gregory Bond,Paramedic 216

When I first started writing this ar-ticle it was with the intention of

discussing the poor state of monthlytraining sessions and then hopefully de-veloping a strategy of improving them.

Having only the knowledge of an out-sider who has no real insight into the in-ner workings of the fourth floor I decidedto interview others who knew more aboutthe subject than I.

What I did find out is that the subjectof RTQI is a very complicated and deli-cate topic indeed. While I won’t bore youwith all of the intricacies and details ofmy research, I will tell you some of thebasic conclusions that I was able to reach.

To begin with, no matter who I talkedto we were all in agreement that trainingis truly broken. The idea of fixing it how-ever, revealed many differing opinionswhen one takes into account all of thefactors at play. As one of my esteemedcoworkers put it, this was a “Pandora’sBox” that frankly I should probably notbe opening.

The more I thought of it, the more Irealized that this particular problem, likeso many others in life, had but a simplesolution.

Burn the box down. Abolish trainingaltogether. It’s relatively apparent to methat nobody possesses the leadership or

Training?!?We don’t need

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ner and I, sitting in the front seat of our truck,can recognize a call with greater accuracythan the priority to which it has been as-signed by the system.

When quality is sacrificed over quantity,regardless of what it may be, then some-thing is definitely wrong.

The other problemlies in the fact that theadministration be-lieves, truly or not,that all calls, regard-less of their nature,must be dispatched towithin a five minute period of their beingreceived.

When you apply this approach to a sys-tem with limited resources, then inherentproblems become very apparent. Within ashort period of time, all available ambu-lances are exhausted and all incoming 9-1-1 calls are forced to wait as a result of thefact that there are simply no more ambu-lances left to send. The result, as you mayimagine, is the fact that people are nowforced to wait for help until trucks can clearup from their previous calls or have ex-tended responses from the fact that theyhave to drive halfway across the city.

Instead of improving the system, it hasmade it much worse. Citizens are waitingsometimes for upwards of an hour for anambulance because there is nobody to send.People are still dying or suffering unneces-sarily due to extended responses. However,

the big difference now is that whenever thisoccurs, probably more than anyone wouldcare to admit, is that now the administra-tion can defend itself by pointing to the “na-tional standards” which they have modeledthe system upon. These same “standards”also call for general response times for 9-1-

1 calls, none of whichwe even come closetoo, but that’s anotherarticle for another time.

The reality is that noone system is perfect.Even in the best of cir-

cumstances, when you work in the life-and-death business, eventually mistakes are go-ing to be made and people will die as a re-sult. That is just a fact of life, whether youwant to admit it or not.

Instead of trying to adhere to a nationalsystem that does not apply to us at all, weshould instead focus our efforts on creatingand/or customizing our own set of standardswhich revisits the tried-and-true method of“doing the most good for the most people.”

The only benefit I see under the currentsystem is enjoyed by the administrationwho, when the proverbial shit eventuallydoes hit the fan, have the ability to defendtheir negligence by pointing to a nationalstandard and washing their hands of respon-sibility; a kind of CYA clause. At least weknow that when things go bad the politi-cians will be covered, and thank god for that.

Let the dispatchers do their jobs.

even the motivation to rectify this long-standing issue. So why not get rid of it?

As it stands now, you have any numberof different factions working in separate inthe same office anyway, let’s just call it whatit is and be done with it.

The captains can still provide recertifi-cation training as is required by the state.The doctors and their ilk will still do re-search and statistics. There’s no effectivequality assurance and sure as hell no im-provement mechanisms in place now so atthe very least we can stop pretending thatthere is. And the academy staff and FTO’swill still continue to precept potential re-cruits on the BLS/ALS levels.

We could do away with the increasinglyinane monthly assignment days which no-body cares for and provides no educationalvalue or challenges whatsoever.

Instead we leave the burden of responsi-bility on the individuals themselves to keepup with their own licensure and minimumbasic requirements. Anything beyond that,those motivated souls who feel compelledto enhance their education will be forced todo so on their own time, much as it is now.

If the department feels obligated to as-sist those in search of higher education, they

might be able to provide some financial aidin order to attend outside conferences andseminars.

When new equipment and/or medicalprocedures are implemented, it again willbe the sole responsibility of the individualto acquire that knowledge.

If those basic requirements are not met,then one cannot perform their job. It’s nodifferent than my failing to submit paper-work to OEMS as is required by the state.

The big difference here is that instead ofrequiring certain training, you merely offerit.

Those who would prefer to work downto the lowest possible level are happy, andthe money you save on monthly trainingdays could be used to help send people offto further their own training as they see fit.

Forget about rounds, case review, qual-ity, etc. Everyone here is an adult, if only inyears, and should be capable of maintain-ing their proficiency and livelihood. Every-one still has a job. Nobody is forced to doanything that they don’t want to, and thosewho want to learn may actually benefit fromthe increased opportunities afforded tothem.

Everyone’s happy.

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By Kevin Doogan

If you had to point a finger at one personand give credit or thanks for Boston’s

comparatively low murder rate, the smartpointers would be aimed at Dr. ErwinHirsch. Tragically, with Dr. Hirsch’s recentaccidental drowning, the citizens and po-lice of Boston have suffered a tremendous

loss. Dr. Hirsch was always a good friendto police and a savoir to his patients. If therewas a breath left in your body, no matterhow bleak, with Dr. Hirsch on the job youalways had a fighting chance and the oddswere in your favor. Dr. Hirsch has taughthundreds of interns and they have done himproud but with the loss of “the ole master”,

Boston Medical Center will be left with anirreplaceable void. We extend our deepestsympathies and condolences to Dr. Hirsch’sfamily and to his trauma staff at BostonMedical Center; rest assured we feel andmourn your loss as does all of Boston.

Never a big fan, to say the least, butfinally, I agree entirely with somethingSenator Ted Kennedy did. When thenews of his illness was made public, therewas an outpouring of sympathy andspeculation. Of course, being human,many of us thought out loud how wewould react if faced with such devastat-ing news. Ted Kennedy, some would say,displayed the class and grace befitting hisstation in life. Once released from thehospital there were no big speeches, verylittle fanfare and he retreated to the Capeto regroup and assess his options. Thevery next video of Ted showed him sur-rounded by family and friends strolling to-wards his yacht. With his wife on his armand family aboard Ted struck the main sailand it was out to sea he went. I can onlyhope he’s got a healthy stock pile of ChivasRegal onboard. Sail on Ted and enjoy.

Now switching gears, can someone ex-plain why at the height of the informationage we remain uninformed? Why is it thatBoston Police Incident reports, the BRICand booking information is readily avail-able to outside police departments likeQuincy, Transit and the State Police but weare either denied or spoon fed reciprocal

information? Why is there a rumor that theBoston Police are planning to share sensi-tive intelligence about targets and locationswith the Feds when they wouldn’t tell youif your coat was on fire? Are individuals inour leadership greasing the skids for theirnext political appointment? Haven’t welearned anything from the Whitey debacle?Why is it that civilian clerks on this depart-ment have more information and resourcesat their finger tips than those sworn person-nel assigned to solve these crimes? Are ourleaders that short- sighted or are people justprotecting and securing their soft-touchpositions? Why isn’t it that every data-en-try point on a computer booking form orincident report is not searchable? Why can’twe search phone numbers called or given?In today’s society with women giving birthto numerous children by different fatherswhy can’t we search by parents names toget a handle on a family unit? What the hellis a “fuzzy search” and why haven’t we beentaught how to make one? Why is it that any-thing this department buys comes from thelowest bidder, so when your life is on theline you can rest easy knowing that the low-est bidder supplied you? Why do they pullinvestigators away from investigations tohave incessant meetings about the status ofinvestigations?

The short answer is that the investiga-tion was put on hold so we can write re-ports about the status of the investigations.What’s next, a game of “Mother may I?”

By Mark A. Bruno

The recent spike in gas prices has everyone unsettled. By the Fourth of July wewill see prices as high as four dollars a gallon. Most everything we buy in-

volves the price of oil and gas. If you have been listening to some of the leadingeconomists, they have been saying this country is in a mini recession. How do youstop these runaway pricesthat have hit families hard?As police officers who earna modest income even weare feeling the pinch. It iscosting some of us wellover one-hundred-dollars aweek in gas to get back andforth to work. Whateverlittle pocket money wemanaged to sock away fora rainy day seems to havebeen in vain. I’ve seen someof our officers at the bankfeeding the coin machine.Usually I wait till the endof the year to cash in mychange, but like my fellowofficers I have had to dip into this cash coin reservoir.

The gas prices are making me as well as other officers decide where to do adetail. The shortest distance to a detail and back usually works for me. I went to gasup in the morning near my home and had to wait because I needed to cash a checkfirst. The price was $3.68 a gallon in the morning. By the time I made it back in theafternoon it had jumped up a nickel to $3.73. Can someone tell me why the greatestcountry in the world is paying outrageous prices for gas? In Saudi Arabia the priceof gas is about sixty-four-cents a gallon. Why are the greatest protectors in theworld being held literally over a barrel? We are spending billions of dollars over-seas to protect the rights of those who cannot protect themselves. We are spreadingdemocracy and paying a heavy price, the heaviest being the almost now five-thou-sand soldiers who have died in Iraq.

Planning a vacation is a joke. Booking an airline flight is like playing the stockmarket, if you wait too long to book the price goes up. For some families thesevacations are back-breakers on the budget. Families will be less inclined to travelfar given the high cost of gas. I imagine New Hampshire or Cape Cod will be thedestination for many during the upcoming summer months. Weekend trips intoBoston may be all people can afford to do. Whatever little funds people have, theywill not be able to afford tickets for the Red Sox or any other event. Trips to the mallare becoming less as people are feeling the pinch at the pump. People are lessinclined to go out to dinner. Maybe you can buy one of those virtual reality headsetsand go on a virtual vacation to the Bahamas?

This is a very serious problem all around. Budgets for every department will beaffected as a result of services delivered via automobile, vans and school buses. Thespike in fuel and oil prices are eating up municipal budgets. Snow removal nextwinter will really put a crimp in local budgets. If you have oil delivered to yourhome, an additional charge is being tacked on for fuel being used to deliver theproduct. It appears this bubble is not going to burst anytime soon. Economists arepredicting oil may reach two-hundred-dollars a barrel by the year 2011. Gas couldgo up as high as seven plus dollars a gallon. The price of building a home has goneup, unless you buy one already built that is about to be foreclosed on as a result ofthe mortgage crisis.

Make no mistake, the next couple of years are going to drive many families intobankruptcy and ruin. I’m not sure the government has a quick fix answer to thisproblem. Our mutual funds are beginning to dwindle down. Paying off collegetuition and weddings will keep some of us working past our targeted retirementage. An optimist will tell you the tank is half-full, but unfortunately filling eitherhalf has become a pain in the ga$.

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* The Boston Herald apologizes (front page05-14-08) to the New England Patriotsfor their “mistake” about the walkthroughof the Rams practice prior to their firstSuper Bowl victory, but would NEVERsay they maliciously printed hundreds ofstories to hurt the reputations of many finepeople? Or what about the gruesome pic-tures the editors love to splatter all overtheir pages? Pictures of people who havebeen killed in tragic accidents or killings?The editors were forced to say “sorry”back in 1989 when Charles Stuart killedhis pregnant wife and they thought itwould make a nice front page picture.They never did say anything about theirlack of sensitivity to the families of twoState Troopers and two workers who werekilled when the State Police helicoptercrashed many years ago. They had noproblem lowering themselves by publish-ing a front page picture of these dead mennext to the crumpled aircraft. Nothing butfrauds!

* Commuter trains travel so fast throughthe center of some cities and towns? Alittle boy is dead because of it.

* A 300 lb. inmate is allowed to sue theState of Arkansas because he doesn’t likethe menu? In a recent AP story in the Bos-ton Herald, Broderick Lloyd, who isserving time for murder, complained that

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?the state does not provide the inmates withenough food thus causing him to losemore than 100 pounds. “On several oc-casions I have started to do some exer-cising and my vision went blurry and Ifelt like I was going to pass out.” …Stop,stop, stop right there Lloyd. Exercising?Enough said.

* A “rally” was held on the Boston Com-mon protesting the immigration raids thatround up “ILLEGAL IMMI-GRANTS?” Says Dorotea Manuela ofDorchester, “We won’t allow anotherNew Bedford to happen.” This is in ref-erence to the federal raid on a factory inthat city in which 361 people were de-tained because they were illegal. I agreewith you Dorotea… we, the law abidingcitizens of this state, WON’T let moreillegals into our state so they can commitcrimes and cost us more money!

* Judge Edward Redd feels the need totell off-duty police officers how to spend

their time? Recently he questioned whyso many Boston Police Officers were incourt to watch the proceedings involvingscumbag Thomas Shay. Shay was themaggot that conspired to kill his own fa-ther with a remote controlled bomb. Thatbomb killed BPD Bomb TechnicianJeremiah Hurley in 1991 and injured hispartner Frank Foley. But Redd took is-sue with the heavy police presence in“HIS” courtroom. “I would prefer to haveyou out on the street so you can do yourwork for the community,” Redd stated.Really Judge Redd? I would prefer youstart putting the criminals in jail insteadof playing Mr. Rogers. And by the wayJudge, it’s not your courtroom… or anyother Judges. The citizens bought andpaid for it.

* Former Deputy Bob Hayden takes sucha cheap shot at the Boston Police Acad-emy and the men and women who workthere? Speaking with a reporter from

Boston Magazine (April 2008) about cor-ruption on the police department Haydenstates, “Traditionally, police departmentsdo not train their people about the temp-tations… people are trying to give themalcohol, money, drugs. There are somewomen who are cop groupies, who willbe attracted to them because of the badge.But they don’t talk about that at the acad-emy. Add that to the stress of police work,the highs and lows of adrenaline rushesand long dull shifts, and you have an at-mosphere that makes young cops ripe tobe corrupted, ready to be corrupted. Bynot preparing them in the academy, wealmost create the situation where corrup-tion can fester.” With all due respect toformer Deputy Hayden and his career inlaw enforcement, it’s a shame he didn’tpick up the phone, call the academy, andask what is taught here. We do teach eth-ics here. We do talk about “cop group-ies” and the many temptations young of-ficers will be faced with. We talk aboutmany things that you don’t know about.It’s bad enough the BPD gets treatedbadly by the media… it’s worse thatsomeone who once walked in our shoestramples all over our reputations andblames us for the situation.

* The Boston Herald continues to demeanpolice officers even when they thinkthey’re showing us support? In an edito-rial on May 16, 2008 titled “Judge’s Poor



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Society’s selfish indifference to life

Judgement,” the Herald criticizes JudgeRedd and his foolish comments. OK, weappreciate the support. But the last para-graph in part states, “Yes, occasionallythe cops can get a bit carried away withthe ‘all for one’ routine.” Oh really? Car-ried away how? When we all gather in ahospital lobby when one of our friends isshot in the line of duty and we don’t knowif they will survive? Or what about when

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we seek a new contract after going yearswithout one? Or maybe when we dressup in white gloves and put black bandson our badges and salute as a friend isplaced in the ground after being shot? Isthat it? Is that how we get carried awaywith that ‘all for one’ routine? I hope wedon’t have to do that routine anytimesoon.

Stay Safe.

By Kevin Doogan

Working in law enforcement, no mat-ter the position, it’s hard not to get

jaded. Morning, noon and night we bearwitness to the extreme lengths of savageryone alleged human being can inflict uponanother. But here I stand to exclaim, sometwenty-two years into a career, just whenyou think you’ve seen it all, a group of inci-dents occur that leaves you almost speech-less.

Most officers have become accustomedto the blood, the gore, the chaos and car-nage but society, to some level or another,had always seemed to be on our side. Neigh-borhoods, no matter the income level or eth-nic makeup, would stick together and neigh-

bors looked out for one another. But at analarming speed, society has apparently be-come so indifferent to any lives except theirown, that victims of vicious, violent crimesare abandoned by their neighbors and leftto live or die on a whim. The reluctance todial 911 and save a life has reached epicproportions.

It has become so difficult to police intoday’s society that government officials areforced to install an elaborate “echo-cam”(“shot-spotter”) system to pin-point gunfire.When did it become acceptable for hood-lums and savages to victimize the publicunchallenged? How can anyone justifyhearing gunshots or screams for help andnot call the police? When did it become tol-

erable to allow a murdered victim to lay facedown in a yard for days because peopledon’t want to get involved?

Victim’s bodies are being treated as ifthey are litter, hoping someone else will callthem in or pick them up.

Recently a college student is executed,gunned-down in an apartment building andno one calls. This victim’s life, her screamsand chances for survival were ignored anddismissed. Victims bleeding, being beatenand butchered routinely before the public,yet people can’t be bothered to make asimple 911 call. This behavior is intolerable!

Sure there will be marches and speeches,news flashes, meetings and calls to arms,but in reality nothing of substance will hap-

pen. After a day or two, society will havemoved on.

People crow about freedom and keep-ing the government out of our day-to-daylives but we are on a fast-track to a policestate.

Maybe it’s high time the governmentstarts taking Europe’s lead and has videosurveillance mandatory for businesses andnew construction. Maybe an eye in the skyor cameras positioned on every fourth tele-phone pole will help.

If the public refuses to help their neigh-bors and themselves by calling police, atleast through video the police may have achance to enact justice for a victim aban-doned by their neighbors.

GOD is BusyIf you don’t know GOD, don’t make stupid remarks!!!!!!!

A United States Marine was attending some college courses between assign-ments. He had completed missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the courses hada professor who was an avowed atheist and a member of the ACLU.

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to theceiling and flatly stated, ‘God, if you are real, then I want you to knock me off thisplatform. I’ll give you exactly 15 minutes.’ The lecture room fell silent. You couldhear a pin drop.

Ten minutes went by and the professor proclaimed, ‘Here I am God. I’m stillwaiting.’It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of hischair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him; knocking him off the plat-form. The professor was out cold.

The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other students wereshocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence. The professor eventuallycame to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Marine and asked, ‘What the heck is thematter with you? Why did you do that?’ The Marine calmly replied, ‘God was toobusy today protecting America’s soldiers who are protecting your right to say stu-pid stuff and act like an idiot. So, He sent me.’

Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez, 23,and Enrico Garza, 26, probably be-

lieved they would easily overpower home-alone 11-year-old Patricia Harrington af-ter her father had left their two-story home.

It seems the two crooks never learned

two things: they were in Montana andPatricia had been a clay shooting championsince she was nine.

Patricia was in her upstairs roo m whenthe two men broke through the front doorof the house. She quickly ran to her father’s

room and grabbed his 12-gauge Mossberg500 shotgun.

Resindez was the first to get up to thesecond floor only to be the first to catch anear point blank blast of buckshot from the11-year-old’s knee crouch aim. He sufferedfatal wounds to his abdomen.

When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs,he took a blast to the left shoulder and stag-gered out into the street where he bled todeath before medical help could arrive.

It was found out later that Resindez wasarmed with a stolen .45 caliber handgun hetook from another home invasion robbery.

That victim, 50-year-old David Burien,was not so lucky. He died from stab woundsto the chest.

Ever wonder why good stuff nevermakes NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN,or ABC News… an 11-year-old girl, prop-erly trained, defended her home, and her-self… against two murderous, illegal im-migrants… and she wins, she is still alive.

Now that is Gun Control!Thought for the day:

Calling an illegal alien an ‘undocu-mented immigrant’ is like calling a drugdealer an ‘unlicensed pharmacist’

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal SkullA Review by James F. Lydon, Jr.

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Life is busy. Especially for blue-collar,middle class people like police officers

and EMTs. When you finally manage to goout with your family, and you want to sitthrough a good movie and relax, you shouldnot have to waste your time. Or your money.Hopefully, this review will help you makeyour decision wisely.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of theCrystal Skull is the fourth installment in theIndiana Jones movies series. This series,which started back in 1981 with Raiders ofthe Lost Ark, has been a fan favorite for overa quarter of a century. The series, which hasspawned a television show, fiction, comicbooks, video games, and many copycat sto-ries, revolves around a history and archae-ology professor named Indiana Jones whotravels the world and gets involved in hair-raising adventures. Indiana Jones was thecreation of director and writer GeorgeLucas, who made the character in hom-age to the pulp heroes of the 1920s and1930s.

Raiders of the Lost Ark has always beenconsidered the best of the Indiana Jonesseries, with most people agreeing that thethird movie, Indiana Jones and the LastCrusade, was a close second, followed bythe second movie, Indiana Jones and theTemple of Doom.All three movies containedthe same elements that made the original asuccess: great casting, great humor, greatstunts, great music, and references to a greattime in history.

Harrison Ford has played the lead rolesince the beginning, and he has done a stel-lar job. He has brought humanity to a roleinvolving superhuman acts of heroism. Asthe straight man to the quips of fate,Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones makes uslaugh as the most horrible things happen tohim while he is trying to do the right thing.

The stunts were so amazing in all themovies that there have been amusementtheme park attractions and shows styled offof them. The music, a series of legendaryscores by the master of the epic film com-position, John Williams, is stirring and un-forgettable. And the history involves erasthat were both simpler and much more dif-ficult, in many different ways.

But the question is this: Does IndianaJones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skullstand up to its predecessors?

I believe that it does.I greatly respected the decision by

George Lucas to place the film in 1957,almost twenty years after Indiana Jones andthe Last Crusade was set. This decisionshowed confidence in an already createdwork that goes against the current trend inHollywood of “restarting” all the old movieseries. (See the new James Bond movies.)The 50s was an era that America heavilyinfluenced culture, and George Lucasshows that in this film by including suchthings as atomic bomb testing,McCarthyism, soda fountains, and greas-ers versus college jocks. He also introducesthe Soviets as the replacements for the com-

mon IndianaJones bad guys,the Nazis. Thehead Soviet sol-dier, Colonel-Doctor IrinaSpalko, isplayed wonder-fully by Acad-emy Award-winning actressCate Blanchett.The time periodand the new vil-lains workedwell, supplyingthe requiredamount of his-tory and oppos-ing evil for thestory.

The movieintroduces sev-eral new charac-ters, includingthe spirited MuttW i l l i a m s ,played by Shia LaBeouf. Mutt brings fresh-ness to the movie as soon as he appears oncamera. His character, a greaser who ridesa motorcycle and uses a switchblade, im-mediately draws the viewer’s memory backto a young Marlon Brando in TheWild Ones(1953). Mutt brings humor with him due tothe constant ribbing he gives the much olderIndiana Jones. At one point, Mutt compli-ments Indy on his fighting skills: “Youknow, for an old man you ain’t bad in a fight.What are you, like 80?” Harrison Ford will,in fact, be 66 this July.

Should you spend your hard-earned cashon Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of theCrystal Skull? I think so. It is fun. It is funny.It is exciting. It brings back memories ofthe old Indiana Jones movies without ruin-ing them.

Is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of theCrystal Skull a kids’ movie? Not sure, but Iwill say that this movie earned its PG-13rating due to the violence and the frighten-ing images. Many people get killed, on andoff camera. This is not a “soft” PG-13. Let’sput it this way: several people get eaten byarmy ants … and director Steven Spielbergdoes not skimp on the horror.

Is it a date movie? Sure. But make surethat your date is a fan of the Indiana Jonesmovies, or it may be very quiet in the seatnext to you. There is nothing embarrassingabout this movie, so new dates will not beuncomfortable. There are a lot of laughs,so it might actually be good to break theice.

What about the sci-fi spin? It was ru-mored that George Lucas was bent onstuffing this movie full of good old 1950ssci-fi, including Martians and flying sau-cers. Well, someone, possibly Spielberg,must have pulled the reins a little tight,because the sci-fi element, while there,does not ruin the movie. It is rather sub-dued for perhaps 90 minutes of this 124minute movie. And when the sci-fi does

arrive, it does so in a way that does notruin your Indiana Jones experience.

Treat yourself to an old fashioned ad-venture movie. Go see Indiana Jones and

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Sports Trivia: Bill Carroll?

How Much Do YouKnow About Your Country?

United States Trivia: Bill Carroll?

1. In what state do the elk, deer, and antelope populationsoutnumber human beings?

2. In what state was the American Federation of Labor(AFL) organized?

3. What is the only state whose east and west borders areformed by 100% water?

4. What two states are bordered by the most states?5. What state has the most toxic waste dumps?

1. Late in the 1975 season, what team was the first to have four pitchers combine on ano-hitter?

2. What Major League expansion team finished first or second 14 times in its first twentyseasons?

3. What was the last National League team toscore in every inning of a nine inning game?

4. What shortstop won the Most Valuable PlayerAward in consecutive seasons?

5. What team had to forfeit its last home gamebefore moving to another city with two outs inthe ninth inning because the fans stormed thefield?

6. Who is the only pitcher to have won the Rookie of the Year, Cy Young, and MVPawards in his career?

7. Who are the only brothers to win the League Championship Series Most Valuableaward?

8. What shortstop won thirteen consecutive Gold Glove Awards?9. Who set an unbreakable record with four saves in the 1996 World Series?10. What team was the first wild-card team to reach the League Championship Series?

(see answers on page C19)

(see answers on page C19)

the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.I give this movie a rating of 10 out of 13

crystal skulls (you’ll get it when you watchthe movie.)


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Sports(see questions on page C15)

1.Late in the 1975 season the Oakland Athletics had four pitchers combine on a no-hitter.

2.The Kansas City Royals who joined the American League in 1969 finished first orsecond in their division fourteen times in their first twenty seasons of play.

3.The last National League team to score a run in every inning of a nine inning gamewas the Colorado Rockies in 1999.

4.Cubs shortstop Ernie Banks won back to back MVP Awards during the 1950’s.5.The 1971 Washington Senators had to forfeit their last home game before moving to

Texas because the fans stormed the field with two outs in the top of the ninth inning.The Senators were leading 7-5 at the time but the final score was 9-0.

6.The only pitcher to win the Rookie of the Year, Cy Young, and Most Valuable Playerawards during his career was Dodgers right-hander Don Newcombe.

7.The only brothers to win the League Championship Series MVP award are right-handers Livian and Orlando Hernandez.

8.Cardinals Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith won thirteen consecutive Gold Glovesduring his playing career.

9.Yankees closer John Wetteland earned a save in all four of his teams World Serieswins in 1996, which is a record that can be matched but never broken.

10.The first wild-card team to reach the League Championship Series was the 1996Orioles.

1.The state of Montana has a larger population of elk, deer, and antelope than people.2.The American Federation of Labor was organized in Terre Haute Indiana in 1881.3.The state of Iowa has east and west borders made up of 100% water, with their eastern

border being the Mississippi River and their western border being the Missouri River.4.Both Missouri and Tennessee are bordered by eight other states, Missouri: Iowa, Ar-

kansas, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Tennessee. Tennessee:Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Virginia North Carolina and Mis-sissippi.

5.The state of New Jersey has the most toxic waste dumps with 108.


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When Cops/Military RetireWhen a good cop leaves the “job” and

retires to a better life, many are jeal-ous, some are pleased and yet others, whomay have already retired, wonder. We won-der if he knows what they are leaving be-hind, because we already know. We know,for example, that after a lifetime of cama-raderie that few experience, it will remainas a longing for those past times. We know

in the law enforcement life there is a fel-lowship which lasts long after the uniformsare hung up in the back of the closet. Weknow even if he throws them away, theywill be on him with every step and breaththat remains in his life. We also know howthe very bearing of the man speaks of whathe was and in his heart still is.

These are the burdens of the job. You will

still look at people suspiciously, still seewhat others do not see or choose to ignoreand always will look at the rest of the lawenforcement world with a respect for whatthey do; only grown in a lifetime of know-ing. Never think for one moment you areescaping from that life. You are only escap-ing the “job” and we are merely allowingyou to leave “active” duty.

So what I wish for you is that wheneveryou ease into retirement, in your heart younever forget for one moment that “Blessedare the Peacemakers for they shall be calledchildren of God,” and you are still a mem-ber of the greatest fraternity the world hasever known.

LOTS of truth here in this.

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