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Only the woke need apply to be Boston’s top cop
Boston Herald ^ | 22 Apr 2022 | Howie Carr

Posted on 04/22/2022 8:46:37 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Do you have the right stuff to become Boston’s next police commissioner?

Step one: Pick up the phone and dial area code 202.

That’s Washington, of course. But then you weren’t seriously expecting that anyone from area code 617 was going to be involved in anything … Boston, now were you?

Mayor Michelle Wu, originally from the 312 area code (Chicago), has farmed out the nationwide search for a new PC police commissioner to what appears to be a Washington think tank.

According to the city (of Boston, not Washington or Chicago or San Francisco, where the mayor’s new chief of staff came from), here is what the BPD requires of its next commissioner:

“The passion, skills, and cultural competencies to serve as a ‘bridge-builder.’”

Personally, I think most Bostonians might prefer a “crime stopper” to a “bridge builder.”

“A leader who brings an enthusiasm to meeting this moment to reimagine policing.”

How about reimagining … safe streets? Or the arrests of criminals? How about reimagining … Downtown Crossing without roving bands of teenaged girls assaulting and calling a 20-year-old woman a “white (bleep) with braids”?

How about reimagining a Chinatown where law-abiding Asians aren’t randomly stabbed?

“A willingness to actively center the safety and well-being of LGBTQ+ residents of Boston.”

How about a willingness to protect all citizens — even people who were born here, speak English and aren’t on welfare?

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
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1 posted on 04/22/2022 8:46:37 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Sane people need not apply


2 posted on 04/22/2022 8:50:24 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP))
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To: Rummyfan

We’re not going to make it to November. I see only one solution.


3 posted on 04/22/2022 8:54:19 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commiraspute is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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“We are conducting this search during the continued transformation of policing following the unjust killings of Michael Brown, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and many others — and the ensuing demands for racial and social justice.”

Michael Brown (and Trevon Martin) were killed because they stupidly attacked men with guns.

George Floyd died of a heart failure due to a massive overdose of drugs (per the Coroner's report).

It is a shame that Breonna Taylor died. She was hanging out with very bad actors but I don't see that she deserved to die.

4 posted on 04/22/2022 9:01:21 AM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: HighSierra5

Nah! The 2A has been a big disappointment. Billions of bullets gathering dust.


5 posted on 04/22/2022 9:02:21 AM PDT by entropy12 (Blockade of Cuba by USA was OK by neocons, but Russia must tolerate NATO weapons on its border!)
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To: entropy12

You don’t have to use the guns. Just the fact we have them scares the bejeezus out of these Leftists.


6 posted on 04/22/2022 9:18:22 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commiraspute is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: Rummyfan

Crime will rise accordingly.


7 posted on 04/22/2022 9:19:28 AM PDT by Bloodandgravy (Become passers-by.)
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To: Rummyfan
A leader who brings an enthusiasm to meeting this moment to reimagine policing.

I seem to be seeing the term "reimagine" (or "reimagining") a lot lately. There was a good cartoon in Pookies the other day giving the definition of reimagine: "To screw-up, undermine or outright dismantle and destroy." How true.

8 posted on 04/22/2022 9:26:42 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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To: HighSierra5

That approach is not working. Biden/Kamala are running the roost, woke people in control everywhere, national debt is ballooning, and inflation is at 40 year high.


9 posted on 04/22/2022 10:46:26 AM PDT by entropy12 (Blockade of Cuba by USA was OK by neocons, but Russia must tolerate NATO weapons on its border!)
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To: Rummyfan

Boston Logan International Airport, 9/11 2001.....


10 posted on 04/22/2022 10:48:06 AM PDT by Gaffer
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I am so glad I got out of there. Every day I’m glad.


11 posted on 04/22/2022 11:14:30 AM PDT by AloneInMass (You'd think there would be more similarity between "chain letter" and "chain mail".)
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