Our cops are famously, uniquely, and impressively shitty. The best thing you can say about BPD is that they don’t kill civilians as often as cops in other major cities. Instead, they just do things like build a warrantless, evidence-less, criteria-less “gang database” with private information on teenagers, regardless of any demonstrable “gang connections;” and guess which kinda schools they target with that?
There was also that time … oh yeah, this past fall! … when they nominated a new police chief, and then immediately put him on leave because he had a bunch of domestic violence charges in his history, including against his ex-wife, who was still a police officer … and, who also got busted for embezzling millions in an overtime scandal. But of course, this was all brushed under the rug by the head of the Boston Police Union … who has plausibly accused multiple times of child sexual abuse while on duty, which also got brushed under the rug.
More recenty, a bunch of anti-vax Boston cops have been harassing our new mayor (a Chinese-American woman) OUTSIDE OF HER OWN HOME. Cuz they’re definitely not racist, ya know?
Could I be worse, I suppose. The Boston Police could be the Boston FBI.
