Boston Police Unions Demand Long Guns, Other Equipment
Boston police unions are demanding long guns, larger ammunition magazines, helmets and other equipment, citing the killings of officers worldwide.
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Boston police unions are demanding long guns, larger ammunition magazines, helmets and other equipment, citing the killings of officers worldwide.
The community weighed in at the first public meeting about police body cameras in Boston.
A public hearing will be held Thursday night on a pilot program that would put body cameras on some Boston Police officers.
It will be used as part of "Operation Hoodsie Cup," a community policing initiative that has distributed roughly 120,000 free ice cream cups since 2010.
A City Council committee is holding a hearing Thursday evening at the Mildred Community Center to review the police department's plan to pilot the cameras.
A Boston Police sergeant is being praised for showing restraint in taking down a suspect who charged him with a knife while screaming that he would kill him.
Boston Police provided an update on the death of 7-year-old Kyzr Willis, who was found dead off Carson Beach while under the supervision of a city camp.
In the wake of the shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that left three officers dead and three wounded, the Boston Police Department said Sunday that all patrols by their officers would be done in two-person units.
More than 1,000 people organized by Mass Action Against Police Brutality marched from Boston Police Headquarters in response to the deaths of black men and women involving police.
Mayor Marty Walsh and Boston Police Commissioner William Evans announced Tuesday the city has come to an agreement with the patrolmen's association to launch a six-month body camera program.
Boston city councilor Andrea Campbell, chair of the committee on public safety and criminal justice, thought Boston Police would start their body camera pilot program by now.
Patrols in Boston will be completed in two-officer units a day after 12 officers were shot in Dallas.
One person was killed and another injured Thursday morning in a Dorchester shooting.
A male suffered life-threatening injuries after being assaulted Saturday in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood.
Boston Police have reunited a young boy with his family nearly 24 hours after he was found wandering barefoot at a Mattapan playground.
A corrections officer from the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department was arraigned Thursday on charges that he had improper contact with an inmate at the South Bay House of Corrections.
Boston Police are warning that a small blue pill being sold on the street illegally as Oxycodone has actually been found to be the deadly drug Fentanyl.
Boston Police posted a photo to their Facebook page Tuesday of an officer who stopped to make a child's day last weekend.
Police say the assault happened around 10 a.m. Monday in the downtown area of Beacon and Bowdoin streets.
A person suffered life-threatening injuries in a double shooting late Saturday night in Mattapan, Boston EMS says.
Police have identified the 19-year-old woman who construction workers found dead in an East Boston garage.
Boston Police Commissioner Bill Evans said his department is offering help and security to nightclubs in Boston in the wake of the largest mass shooting in U.S. history, which killed 50 people at an Orlando gay club early Sunday.
Fenway Park played host Sunday to a multi-agency counterterrorism exercise that included simulated explosions and gunfire.
A Boston Police sergeant helped deliver a baby girl in Jamaica Plain on Friday.
Sergeant Rene Sanchez, a 20-year veteran of the Boston Police Department, was working with other officers on a traffic stop when a man ran over to him and told him that his wife was in labor.
