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Media, pols, police critics, receivelessons in real life at BPD Academy

By Jim Carnell, Pax Editor

Many of us may have missed the Globe and Herald editions dated Jan. 23rd abouta rather unique and interesting exhibition by the staff of the Boston Police

Academy designed for local politicians, media, and community activists. (“In de-fense of the proper use of force”, Boston Herald, Peter Gelzinis, 1-23-11, and “Po-lice give lessons in how they use force”, Boston Globe, Maria Cramer, 1-23-11).The exhibition was designed after much criticism was heaped upon the departmentfollowing a “You-tube” video which appeared on-line after the arrest of a youngscumbag who resisted arrest at Roxbury Community College last fall.

From the articles, and from interviews with BPD academy staff, it appears that atleast a scintilla of real-life police work may have gotten through to at least a few ofthose who attended. Of the reported five city councilors who attended the exhibition,one was Councilor Michael Ross of Beacon Hill, who wasted no time in condemn-ing the officers after the RCC incident for their alleged use of “excessive force”.Ironically (or is it “hypocritically”?) Councilor Ross had “reserved judgment” on hisfellow City Councilor Chuck Turner, who had been indicted and then convicted ofaccepting bribes from the FBI. Unfortunately, according to the comments attributedto him by the Globe, Ross still doesn’t get it, at least not until he has to fight off acriminal himself. (But then again, most elitist frauds who reside on la-de-da BeaconHill don’t-and never will- “get it”; so why should he be different?)

The Youtube video, which showed a juvenile escapee wanted on several chargesresisting arrest, was touted by the high holy hypocrites in the major media and bypoliticians seeking to curry favor with specific voters needed to ensure their own self-perpetuation as another example of police brutality. In fact, the video shows nothingmore than police officers using the minimum amount of force on a suspect violentlyresisting arrest and handcuffing. The exhibition by the BPD academy staff was de-signed to explain to these critics the rules and regulations of the BPD regarding theuse of force, the training we receive, and the practical difficulties of handcuffing andsubduing somebody who, quite simply, does not want to be handcuffed and arrested.In the video, the officers employed simple pain-compliance techniques to force theresisting juvenile thug, who was wildly swinging one handcuff in the air at the offic-ers attempting to arrest him, to stop resisting and comply. Of course, the intellectu-ally-bereft dolt filming the incident with her cell-phone thought she had another RodneyKing-style expose and narrated the video for distribution to other like-minded nitwits,who think the police are supposed to put up with this crap and do nothing to protectourselves.

Peter Gelzinis of the Herald, for one, appeared to “get it”. As he reported in hisarticle, “Four scenarios, carried out on a padded floor in the Hyde Park Academy’sbasement gym, encompassed everything from a suspect offering no resistance, to asituation where two officers were barely able to subdue a perp even after he’d beenwrestled to the ground. We were provided a rare opportunity to see the world from apolice officer’s eyes. It is a place where boredom can morph into chaos in the space of

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City, BPPA continuebargaining talks

Parity with firefighters, health insuranceare major issues



With a police contract expired for al-most eight months (as of this Pax

writing), the BPPA and the City’s bargain-ing committees continue to meet during aperiod of difficult economic times and un-der the threat of continued cuts in state aid.The outlook at the present time is not opti-mistic, to say the least.

Major issues on the table are, as mosteveryone is aware, proposed changes tohealth insurance (forcing everyone into ei-ther a state or city version of the GIC – pro-posed health coverage) and the issue of par-ity with Boston’s firefighters. After Gover-nor Deval Patrick arbitrarily cut the Quinnbill payments the state makes to the citiesand towns, the average Boston police of-ficer is left earning about $13,000-$15,000below that of a similarly situated (seniority,etc.) Boston firefighter. Many – if not most– police officers have refrained from seek-ing higher education of any kind, since it isno longer financially beneficial to pay tu-ition costs, attend college, earn a degree andsubsequently receive so little in return forthe effort. (The Quinn bill matter is beinglitigated and will hopefully be heard by theMass SJC in late spring or early summer,but there are no guarantees of that

timeframe, nor of how long the SJC mighttake to decide the matter and ultimatelywhat the decision may be.)

A number of BPPA members have ex-pressed their ideas and their frustrations toshift reps and bargaining committee mem-bers. The important thing is to be realisticabout the economic and political situationin which we now find ourselves. Unfortu-nately, because of the biased media and cer-tain politicians, the ire of the public has beenturned against police, EMT’s, firefightersand teachers, even though we are actuallythe front-line troops who provide vital, ba-sic government services every day. In per-centage terms of the state or municipal bud-get, we represent but a small portion, whencompared with entitlement programs, so-cial services, free housing, free medicalcare, etc. etc. But because we are most vis-ible, while most state and city services andoffices are behind closed doors, the public’sfickle finger of blame is most easily pointedtoward us.

Case in point? I and another officer re-cently received an alarm call to 250 Wash-ington St. in downtown Boston. A securityguard stated that an unauthorized man hadentered the building and may have been on


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Bargaining updateAs I talk to officers around the city, the

two most frequently asked questionsare “What’s happening with our (expiredJuly, 2010) contract” and “what’s happen-ing with the Quinn bill lawsuit”. First of all…bargaining…

I don’t have to explain to any of ourmembers the exceedingly difficult eco-nomic and political conditions that surroundus. We all know what’s happening. Peoplehave lost their jobs, pay scales have beencut, homes have been lost to foreclosure,and the very existence of labor unions hasbeen called into question. Many people turnthe finger of blame for the current climateimmediately to the public-sector unions-police, fire, EMT’s, and teachers, the peoplewho provide the most basic – and the mostvisible- government services every day ofthe week. But like the scene from the “Wiz-ard of Oz”, where the Wizard is exposed asa fraud manipulating the controls while tell-ing everyone to “pay no attention to thatman behind the curtain”, the truth is illu-sory.

The fact is that police officers, EMT’s,firefighters, and teacher’s salaries are but asmall part of the municipal budget. The truebudget-busters are entitlement programs(welfare, free medical services, free hous-ing, state and municipal bureaucracies, etc.etc.) that consume the lion’s share of thestate and federal tax revenue. But, unfortu-nately, because we are in the forefront ofthe public’s mind as the result of being themost visible vestige of government, (not tomention the continual attacks of the liberalmedia), we are subjected constantly to criti-cism.

In such a climate, we should be cautiousabout being viewed as somehow unreason-able or overbearing in bargaining talks. Andcertainly, our expectations as a bargainingcommittee (myself, VP Ron MacGillivray,Treasurer Tom Pratt, A-7 rep MikeLeary and B-2 rep Dave Fitzgerald) areindeed reasonable and limited. We arekeenly aware of the dangerous and difficultwork our members perform every day, and

we are likewiseaware that firefight-ers are paid a substantial amount of moneymore than a similarly-situated patrolman,in terms of seniority, etc. Some membersappear to believe that bargaining is simplya matter a presenting our demands and thenexpecting the city to say “Yes”. God, if itwere only that simple! Bargaining involvestough, painful decisions, politics and per-sonalities. That’s a fact, like it or not. Wewill never compromise our principles oragree to anything that is not in the best in-terests of the majority of our members. Inthe past, we have waited up to four years toagree to contract terms and taken the entirethe matter to arbitration, even though thatavenue has sometimes proven to be less thansuccessful. (Hey, at least that option is stillopen to us!) . Suffice it to say that as soonas we have something to report, we willbring the proposal to your BPPA House ofRepresentatives, who will then decidewhether our proposal is worthy of your fi-nal consideration.

As far as the Quinn bill lawsuit goes, theso-called “North Reading” case is expectedto find its way to the Mass SJC in late springor early summer (we have no control of theactual date or time, we are merely report-ing what we have heard from the interestedparties). North Reading has contract lan-guage similar to ours; that is why this caseis so important. Of course, even after thecase is heard by the Mass SJC, they areunder no obligation to render a decision ina short period of time, so it could be a whilebefore a decision is finally rendered. Essen-tially, the case involves the principal that,despite the state’s refusal to provide thefunds, the law itself requires that police of-ficers MUST be paid a certain amount ofmoney for attaining college degrees. Thefunding mechanism, whether state, federalor municipal, is therefore immaterial to thepolitical machinations of the Governor. Thatis the legal argument, and we hope and be-lieve it will be successful. As always, staysafe and watch out for each other!

Governor Deval Patrick:How well do you know him?


It is indeed distressing to listen to some of our members who seem not to understandhow their Governor, Deval Patrick, absolutely and positively hates police officers.

Some of our members voted forDeval simply because he was aDemocrat, and well… that’s whothey normally vote for. Somemembers may have voted forDeval because they believed hewas pro-labor. Others, unfortu-nately, may have voted for Devalsimply for ethnic or racial reasons,which is, in and of itself, a dis-graceful and repugnant reason tovote for anyone. But the facts is,

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Social networkingArecent article in USA Today spoke

about the recruitment process of po-lice officers with particular interest in theapplicant’s social networking on Facebook,MySpace, YouTube, Twitter and other per-sonal spaces. The article states some agen-cies are demanding that applicants provideprivate passwords, internet pseudonyms,text messages and e-mail logs as part of anexpanding vetting process for public safetyjobs.

A new one-hour course was introducedin the Boston Police Academy titled “So-cial Networking” dealing with commentary,expressions or pictures which could lead toproblems. A police officer’s communica-tions or illustrations could also lead to a needfor behavioral correction including re-train-ing. Class 48-08 was the initial class to re-ceive such instruction and was actuallycalled back to the Academy in May of 2010,a month before their probation ended to re-ceive this, first of its kind, training direc-tive. The significance of recalling the en-tire class back to the academy in May of

2010 for further updates should not be lostgiven the effect that an e-mail could havein framing one’s past, present and future toa regrettable gaffe in an otherwise, lifetimeof positive contributions.

Timeliness andDiscipline

The BPPA over the years have made nu-merous complaints about the excessive

delays in completing IAD investigationswhile officers are placed on administrativeduty or leave. The Department has madeheadway in attempting to render timelydecisions, though quite often it doesn’t ap-pear to be at the top of their “to do” list. Arecent arbitrator’s decision recognized un-acceptable delays in the disciplinary pro-cess that hopefully will infuse a future stan-dard of evenhandedness in justifying theremoval of an officer’s weapon for longperiods of time. In one of the latest deci-sions, the Department attempted to bundlemarginal complaints that had gone yearswithout hearing or decision, in an effort to

compel the officer to accept a compilationof charges that might not have been advan-tageous going forward. The timeliness con-cerns that were addressed in this decisionwere just as important as the 90 day backpay.

For background, in an earlier disciplinecase in 1997 the Union had argued that inaddition to “just cause” there were viola-tions of an officer’s due process in that thedelay of that hearing had prejudiced thegrievant. An argument was made that theDepartment had lost any reasonable ratio-nale for placing the officer on administra-tive duty when it had unreasonably delayedinvestigating the charges against him. TheUnion had suggested that 90 days wouldbe a reasonable amount of time in this par-ticular case given the 1992 St. Clair Reportrecommending 90 days for internal investi-gations. This argument would have allowedfor lost overtime, details, and court time payafter 90 days to be part of the remedy. Logicdid not prevail.

The arbitrator would later equate a rea-sonable time standard to be what was thenormal practice or average length of timerequired to conduct an investigationwithin the Department at that time. TheSt. Clair Report had concluded that amajority of the cases took between 6 and9 months. In 1996 and 1997 cases tookbetween 7 and 24 months to conclude sowhen compared with this investigation,it was not considered to be out of thenorm or otherwise unreasonable. For thislength of time to be considered routineor customary was accurate. It was alsoshocking that it would be considered ac-ceptable for internal affairs to take yearsin some cases to investigate internal alle-gations in light of the St. Clair Report.

The administrative duty in that case hadbegun in June of 1997… the arbitrator’sdecision was rendered in September of1999. The grievant was cleared of the mis-conduct and made whole for any earnings

and benefits lost asa result of the 45day suspension. Regarding the timelinessissue, the City was found not to have vio-lated the contract while the officer was onadministrative duty denying the officer theaverage of details and overtime for all butthe 45 days. A recent disciplinary decisionhas revisited the timeliness argument witha more rational judgment.

Again, excessive delays in the internalaffairs process were cited in the more re-cent grievance and the arbitrator’s decisionaddressed it, specifically the lengthy periodbetween the incident and the investigation.The issuance of the specifications by theappointing authority came 2-1/2 years af-ter the incident, with the actual hearing an-other year after the specifications, totaling3-1/2 years after the incident. The arbitra-tor goes on to say in his decision, “Memoryfailure by witnesses producing gaps or in-consistencies in their testimony must beevaluated substantively in the normalcourse, but where doubts arise they mustalso be attributed against the Departmentand the City for its failure to timely con-clude the disciplinary process against griev-ant following the end of its investigationwhich supported discipline.” Further in thedecision the arbitrator questions the cred-ibility of a City witness: His inconsistenttestimony must cut against the City’s casebecause the City failed to timely concludeits disciplinary process against the griev-ant and hold an Appointing Authority hear-ing concerning allegations against the griev-ant.”

The grievant prevailed on both frontsincluding the discipline being rescinded (90days) and expunged along with an averageof benefits and earnings. Also, while theofficer was on administrative duty it wasdetermined that he was entitled to the aver-age of details and overtime including courttime. This decision can only help with fu-

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a few seconds, where you can be a socialworker one minute, or an armed combat-ant the next.”

The presentation also included the useof the BPD’s firearms training simulator,in which several reporters, journalists andpoliticians “killed” unarmed suspects dur-ing the simulation. Ten years ago (Monday,June 4th, 2001, Boston Herald) reporter JoséMartinez also wrote a similar article en-titled “Police simulator sheds light on reac-tion to street danger”, following a shootingin East Boston in which an knife-wieldingsuspect stabbed a police officer in the leg,and the police were then forced to shoot theman. In that incident, “the community”,inflamed by alleged “community activists”(Note the copious use of quotation markshighlighting my own personal skepticismof such entities or the grammatical usethereof…) also complained of “excessiveforce”, apparently believing that the policeshould allow themselves to be killed beforeasking the suspect if it was OK to shoot him.But reporter José Martinez actually wentone step further, going to the BPD Acad-emy himself and experiencing what real-life might actually be like, albeit on a com-puter simulator. And boy, did he write abouta personal wake-up call. Said Martinez,“Within 45 minutes, I shot one man threetimes, three others shot at me, and a Bos-ton Police Sergeant stabbed me severaltimes as I fumbled to unholster a gun sud-denly made useless by his charge.” Suchhonesty is indeed rare among today’s cropof alleged “journalists”.

But even the Globe reporter seemed toshow some feeble signs of understandingthe plight of police officers required to use

force. According to the Globe’s MariaCramer: “Reporters were then asked toparticipate. A Globe reporter who had torespond to a shooting in a parking lot firedat a fleeing victim, believing she was theshooter. Many in the group said the dem-onstration gave them more insights into thechallenges police face when they use force.“No responsible critic can walk away fromthis and say “Oh, this stuff happens becauseof racist cops,” the Rev. Eugene Rivers III,a prominent Dorchester minister, said at theend of the night.” Honesty. How refreshing…

Councilor Michael Ross, the elitistfraud from Beacon Hill, however, still ex-pressed doubts. According to the Globe:“Still, Ross said the demonstrations did notconvince him that the officers involved inlast year’s arrest behaved appropriately.”Reportedly, although Ross attended the ex-hibition, he did not participate in the hand-cuffing drills or the use of the shooting simu-lator. How did I already know that? Ross isone of those fake, pretentious, obnoxiousliberals who watches police dramas fromthe comfort and safety of his exclusive Bea-con Hill condo and then criticizes workingstreet cops from his ivory tower. He knows“how easy it is” to handcuff a resisting sus-pect because he’s seen it on “Adam-12” and“CSI: Miami”. But like many a good lib-eral, the day will come when he is walkinghome at night and somebody runs upquickly behind him and demands his wal-let, or worse. And Ross will be the first oneon the phone demanding the immediate ar-rival of the police and demanding to know“where were the cops” and “why didn’t theycatch the guy”, and… well, we’ve heard itall before, haven’t we….

any one of eight upper floors. Unbeknownstto us, the building was largely occupied bya veritable plethora of state offices and agen-cies, containing a cornucopia of hacks andbureaucrats. I was dumbstruck by theamount of offices and cubicles hidden onfloor after floor of this building. There wereagencies dealing with radioactivity, animalrights, social services, regulatory agencies,advocates, etc., too numerous to begin torecall. I estimate that certainly – at a mini-mum – several hundred state “workers” haddesks and chairs assigned to them there,hidden away in an obscure building I didn’teven know was there. And that was butONE of the state’s many, many offices andbuildings. Add all the bureaucrats and of-fice workers up, and think of the staggeringamount of personnel and political hackswho currently exist on the state’s payroll.

But who does the layoff axe fall on? Whohas their pay and benefits cut? Who doesthe public’s anger fall upon? That’s rightus- police, EMT’s, firefighters, teachers. Weprovide the most vital, basic services, butend up paying for Deval Patrick’s socialschemes and utopian visions. Cut the cop’spay, close the prisons, let the criminal outon parole… But then again, Massachusetts’nitwit voters returned this man to theGovernor’s chair, so who’s to blame for thecoming calamity?

That’s the sad state of bargaining, Feb-ruary, 2011, BPPA members. Wish I hadbetter news….

(P.S. The members of the bargainingcommittee are Pres. Tom Nee, VP RonMacGillivray, Treasurer Tom Pratt, A-7 rep-resentative Mike Leary, and B-2 represen-tative Dave Fitzgerald.)

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Treasury Notes: Thomas Pratt, BPPA Treasurer

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A note from the State TreasurerSteve Grossman

Iwould like to thank my fellow treasurer, Tom Pratt, Treasurer of the BPPA forinviting me to introduce myself to you in the pages of Pax Centurion. My name is

Steve Grossman and I am the new Treasurer of the Com-monwealth. One of my most important responsibilitiesis to oversee your pension funds.

I’d like to take this opportunity to express my unwa-vering commitment to keep your retirement system safeand sound. It is my mission to honor every pension re-lated promise the state has made to you.

I come to the Treasurer’s office from the private sec-tor. Grossman Marketing, now a fourth generation fam-ily business, is proudly a union shop with both a 401-Kplan and a defined benefit pension plan, not unlike theone you participate in with the Commonwealth. I longago learned that the best way to retain good people is tokeep the promises you make to them. And I will do justthat in my work as your new Treasurer.

We are already in the process of initiating some important changes in the manage-ment of your pension investment funds that are designed to lower our costs, reduceour risks and increase transparency. My administration will do everything it can tocut down on management fees which will enable us to improve our performance.

And amidst the sometimes gloomy economic news that has been swirling aroundthese days, one of the best pieces of news I discovered after being sworn in as Trea-surer was the exemplary participation rate of the Boston Police Department in theSMART Deferred Compensation Plan.

You have set a great example by electing to take greater control of your ownfinancial future. By doing so, you have demonstrated that your commitment to pro-tect and serve extends to the financial well-being of those who depend on you. Thankyou for your participation in the SMART Plan and for your service each and everyday.

Sincerely,Steve Grossman

Steve GrossmanMassachusetts StateTreasurer

As always, I hope to find everyone do-ing well. I trust everyone enjoyed the

holidays and spent some quality time withfamily and friends. The first order of busi-ness that I would like to get into is the so-cial media outlet,Facebook. I know thatour Association Secre-tary Pat Rose wroteabout it in the last is-sue of the Pax. But Iwould just like to reiterate something. Stopputting revealing personal conversationsand issues up on the web for all to see. Ithas gotten back to the union office thatpeople are writing some things on thesesocial media sites that may or may not pos-sibly be construed as conduct unbecoming.Why would anyone want to air certain is-sues for all to see? I know you have to“friend” someone for them to see your page,but like most things someone can showsomebody how to get in by a back door oryou can friend somebody who is not neces-sarily the person you thought you were“friending” (I am actually confusing my-self with the computer talk). All I am say-ing is watch what you are writing and don’t

give outsiders cannon fodder to throw backin our faces. Remember, what happens inVegas, stays in Vegas. Enough on that topic!

The next topic is school zone, park andplay ground measurements. As the law is

written now, a drug dealer who sells hispoison to somebody who is within 1000 feetof a school or 100 feet of a park or play-ground receives a mandatory two and a halfyear sentence for a guiltyconviction. This law is atool for the police and adeterrent for the drugdealers. Schools and play-grounds and parks aresafe havens for childrenof all ages. GovernorDeval Patrick wants tochange the law and cutdown the distances. I can see making ad-justments in some laws for drug users(thought without one, you don’t have other).

A dealer is a dealer, period. With drugs,comes firearms and then turf battles overwho gets to sell what and where. Drugsequal violence and violence equals peoplegetting hurt and killed. We all know that

the economy and theMassachusetts statebudget are slim and theprisons and jails arefilled to just about ca-pacity. The safety of the

public should not have a price tag on it. Theonly thing this measure accomplishes iscutting down on the time bad people stayin jail. I could see increasing rehabilitation

program funding for addicts and people whoreally want to stop doing drugs. Some stud-ies have shown that in the long run, rehabscould save money and lives. Users and deal-ers are two different entities and they shouldbe separate when it comes to enforcement.

I can appreciate that the Governor is tryingto save money, but at what cost? This lawwas written for a reason, to keep potentialviolent offenders off the streets. If a childcannot feel safe at school or playing on aswing in a playground, where can they? Iam not governor-bashing, Mr. Patrick doeshave to make some tough decisions whenit comes to revenues. If we need to increaserevenues to keep our kids safe, how aboutwe start having some of the tax-exempt landbarons start paying their fair share through-out the state. College endowments are onceagain on the rise with the economy gettingbetter. We should also not forget the fact

that hospitals are alsotax exempt. We don’tsee them cuttingemergency roomcosts, do we?Though, I do have abetter idea. Whydon’t we increase thepunishment for deal-ers who carry fire-

arms and have the potential to commit ur-ban terrorism in our city so we don’t haveto keep re-arresting them.

Next topic is The Boston Police PeerSupport Unit. Sergeant Brian Fleming runs

All I am saying is watch what you are writingand don’t give outsiders cannon fodder tothrow back in our faces.

Drugs equal violence and violence equalspeople getting hurt and killed. We all know thatthe economy and the Massachusetts statebudget are slim and the prisons and jails arefilled to just about capacity. The safety of thepublic should not have a price tag on it.

Iwould like to thank all the men and women of the Boston Police Department whomade donations to this year’s Boston Police Troop Effort. The donations received

this year were overwhelming.Because of all of you, we were able to send hundreds of gift packs to Boston

Officers and their Platoon members – serving overseas.Your kindness and generosity is appreciated more than words can say.This year’s effort was such a success because of so many people who donated

their time and resources. I would like to thank some people who made the 2010 effortseem effortless, with the greatest of results.

First and foremost, thank you to the BPPA, BPSOF, OPC, Kathy Kearney, EileenHansford, Tommy Pratt and Pat Rose for going above and beyond to make this year’seffort so successful.

To William Stoddard and Elliot Feldman of the Boston Police PAL program, Su-san Lynn of the Blue Star Mothers, the BPPA, BPSOF, Sgt. Rudy Szegda for theirgenerous donations to help us pay for shipping costs, to Captains Armstrong, Evans,Greland, Ivans and Sexton for all of their assistance and to all of our District contactswho helped gather and deliver all the donations.

Thanks also to Mark Freire, Adam Mazzola, Elizabeth Ahern, Adrian Troy,Middalia Centeio, Marie Anthony, Brendan England, Marty Brooks, Phil Terenzi,Eric Krause, Tommy Foley and Heidi Peterson.

A special thanks to our little elfs who helped to sort, pack and wrap all the gifts –Gail Decoste and her son Jimmy, Eileen Hansford, Danny Adams, John and KaraQuinn, Julie Foley Quinn, Dennis Crowley, Peggy Dubudio-Ronin and Julie Quinn.

A very special thank you to Dennis Crowley’s father, Mr. Jack Crowley – whoevery year gives of his time, to gather and collect the shoe boxes that we use for thegift packs.

To Jill Knupp of Reebok for the donations of shoe boxes and all the socks thatReebok donated.

And a very special recognition of Margaret Sullivan of the Boston Police Supplywarehouse – for knitting warm hats and liners for the troops and sending them overfor the past many years.

Thank you to District C-6 – for allowing us to use their community room andwreak havoc on them for two days, of packing. They were all very gracious hosts.Especially Lenny Lilly, Christine Marini, Fred Ferrara and Middalia Centeio.

Thank you for caring about something so important.Keep Safe and Happy New Year!

– Rita Foley

Thank you for Troop Effort! (continued on page A5)


Secretary Spread: Patrick M. Rose, BPPA Secretary

New wool caps, the Quinn Bill, GIC andcollective bargaining negotiations

highlight this month’s agenda

Beware of putting personal information onsocial media sites…(continued from page A4)

this unit and it is located on the grounds ofthe old state hospital on River Street. Brianhas been on the job for well over 20 yearsand has had both his ups and downs on thisjob. I say this because he can possibly em-pathize with what you may be goingthrough. His goal is to make this unit a placeto go when you need to work somethingout. This is a place where police officers ofall ranks can go if you are having problems.The problems you are experiencing may bework or home related, it does not matter.Everything is confidential. The only con-cern of Brian and the other police officersworking at the Peer Unit, is you and help-ing you stay on track. If you think you wouldlike to talk to someone at the Peer SupportUnit, the numbers are as follows. Shouldyou need emergency help 617-594-9091,the office 617-343-5175. If you feel asthough you want to call a non-city or non-department cell phone, you can call 617-698-7888. As police officers, we sometimesdon’t like to ask for help but there is noth-ing wrong in asking for it if you feel theneed. Now and then, all it takes is gettingsomething of your chest for you to feel bet-ter. Full disclosure, I have and still use theunit on occasion to vent and work thingsout and I feel very comfortable in doing soand talking with the officers who workthere.

In closing, I would just like to stress keep

your guard up and watch each other’s backs.Over the last few weeks there have beenmultiple police officers shot around thecountry and some have been shot in theirown police stations. Shortly after the startof the New Year we had an officer involvedshooting. The suspect pointed a machinegun at some of our co-workers. Luckily,they all went home to their families andloved ones. Let us not forget Police OfficerJohn Maguire of Woburn who was killedin the line of duty. Please keep his family inyour thoughts and prayers. Keep in mind tocall off and ask for help if you need it. Ourgoal is to go home at the end of a tour ofduty.

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So tell me, has the winter been coldenough? I realize that there has been a

lot of discussion concerning cold weathergear, specifically head gear this winter. Yourcries for relief have not fallen on deaf ears.I am pleased to announce the good news,that the Commissioner and the Chief haveheard your concern and have already metwith all three Unions to come up with asolution. The department is now authoriz-ing the ‘Blauer’ 125 knit cap, dark navy bluewith ‘BOSTON POLICE’ embroidered insilver thread for the Patrolmen and goldcolor thread for the rest of the force. This isa great wool cap with a fleece lining. Wehave already contacted the manufacturerand informed them of a special order that isabout to come out authorizing the new cap.Hopefully they can be produced and quicklyenough for our wear this year. The Depart-ment will be issuing an order outlining theconditions upon which you can wear thenew headgear. I would like to thank the De-partment Leadership for working with usto solve this problem.

The next order of business would be theQuinn Bill and our lawsuit against the Cityof Boston, in our quest to right the wrongsperpetrated on us by the Massachusetts Leg-islature and the Governor. We have indeedfiled a law suit and have a joint agreementwith the City for the suit to be heard di-rectly in front of the SJC, which only makessense, since they have the ultimate author-ity on the case. The first hurdle in the casewas getting the SJC themselves to agree tohear the case, which they did. A recent fa-vorable decision from a Superior CourtJudge against the town of North Reading,filed by their Patrol force, in a similar lawsuit looks promising, however we believethe reason the town didn’t appeal is due tothe fact that our case will end up being theanswer for all (so why waste valuable as-sets on case that will be decided on in thenear future). As of this writing we still haveno Court date, so please dismiss all of therumors, once we know you will know. Wedo have high hopes, however, this is Mas-sachusetts and we all know that they some-times make it up as they go, regardless ofthe law and common sense.

This leads me into our next topic, theinfamous GIC. Well folks, it just ain’t go-ing away. I have talked and written at lengthon this subject over the past few months.There is only so much we as a Union cando. We really need you and your families tocall your City Counselors and more impor-tantly your State Representatives and ex-press your opinion and feelings concerninginvolving us in the proposed GIC (one fitsall type of health care). Not only will it bemuch more expensive to you but the careoffered is, many times, subpar to say theleast. We have bargained for the past 45

years to achieve what we have, don’t letthem take it away with a signature on adocument up in the State House in the

middle of the night. If you don’t think that’show business is done, ask any SuffolkCounty Correction Officer how they lostCivil Service and now their Health Care.Believe me, this is the one fight you have toinvolve yourself in, for you, your family andyour future.

Speaking of your future, we are currentlywithout a contract, however, due to somemasterful maneuvering we are currentlyprotected through an agreement between theCity and your Union. We are filing legisla-tion to attempt to roll back the ‘Bad’ courtdecision rendered last spring by the SJCinsofar as the “evergreen clause” that keptpublic employee contracts alive. You areprobably asking why is this important, wellwithout a contract in place the City (man-agement) could actually refuse to bargain,refuse any grievance procedure and actu-ally dismiss without just cause and wewould have no contractual recourse. TheCourt actually stated that they would haveno authority to even hear a case of appeal.If you believe that wouldn’t happen, well italready did, that’s what brought about thedecision. There are actually some towns inMassachusetts that are currently disciplin-ing Police Officers and terminating thosesame individuals without just cause, basedon this SJC ruling. This type of new poli-tics, yes I said politics, is becoming com-mon place in our society. The public em-ployee has become the ‘whipping boy’ forall of society’s woes. This is not a local phe-nomena, politicians at all levels of govern-ment across this country, including theWhite House, are turning the public againsttheir employees. This has been an ongoingconcerted effort by Big Business (who alsoown the media) for well over a decade. Sincethey were not able to keep us basically in aform of indentured servitude, they haveworked with their paid guns (politicians) touse the current fiscal debacle that the coun-

try finds itself in, as an excuse to roll backthe clock on public employees’: health care,payroll and pensions. This is not an aberra-

tion, this has been and continues to be a cold,well thought-out calculated plan to keepyou, the public employee down. The rea-son, to finally rid the country of Unions!Big business with the help of the Govern-ment and Courts has been gutting, destroy-ing and disabling Unions within this coun-

We are filing legislation to attempt to roll backthe ‘Bad’ court decision rendered last springby the SJC insofar as the “evergreen clause”that kept public employee contracts alive.You are probably asking why is this important,well without a contract in place the City(management) could actually refuse tobargain, refuse any grievance procedure andactually dismiss without just cause and wewould have no contractual recourse. TheCourt actually stated that they would have noauthority to even hear a case of appeal.

try for the past thirty two years! Just studywhat has been happening around us and youwill understand. With all of that being said,we are indeed in negotiations with the Cityfor a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.Your bargaining team: Tom Nee, RonMacGillivray, Tom Pratt, Dave Fitzgeraldand Mike Leary have been meeting and tire-lessly working on every detail within the cur-rent and proposed agreement. However, pleaseunderstand that until the SJC hears the QuinnBill case and renders a decision, no fiscal agree-ments can or will be worked out between usand the city. Once the Quinn case is finallydecided, I would like to believe that we cancome up with a palatable agreement withthe City which will address base wages,health care and benefits. However, we willdo whatever is in the best interest you ourmembers! We will continue to fight backthe attacks on our earned and deserved pen-sions and benefits, but as I previously stated,this is a coordinated attack against us coun-try wide. We may have to involve ourselvesin a larger defense to ensure your benefitsare protected! Please be safe out there,watch each other’s back and back each otherup! It’s getting pretty crazy out here.


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Dear Editor,Once again, the editorial board of the

Boston Globe ignores the facts and launchesinto its animus-based tirade regarding po-lice details vs. flagmen (“Not sweating the(police) details,” January 3, 2011). We havecontinually forwarded to you the facts thatflagmen would be paid $52.00 per hour (farmore than a Boston Police Officer at $37.00per hour) and that there is in fact a four hourminimum pay required – exactly the sameas police officers. (American Flagging andTraffic Control Co. of Salem, N.H., quot-ing price for Susi Construction of Boston,dated July 22, 2009, previously forwarded toyour offices). The Globe, however, continuesto ignore these facts, apparently due to the rea-son that the facts do not comport themselves

to the Globe’s anti-police ideology.Obviously, Globe editorialists continue

to believe in the fantasy of the $10.00 perhour flagman who will work for two or threehours of pay, outside in the icy cold or sear-ing heat, transporting themselves happilyto work each morning to put up with the ireof frustrated motorists and snarled traffic.We know not what world the Globe’s edi-torial board exists in, but surely, it is not onthe same planet as those of us who actuallywork for a living each day, as opposed topontificating from behind the safety of acomputer on Morrissey Blvd.

– James W. CarnellRepresentative, Area A-1

Boston Police Patrolmen’s AssociationEditor, Pax Centurion

Re: “Police response to GovernorPatrick’s parole board and inquiry”

Letter to the Boston Herald

Dear Editor,So, our gutsy, crime-fighter of a Gover-

nor Deval Patrick does not want a “rush tojudgment” as he waits with baited breaththe results of the blue-ribbon panel chargedwith finding out exactly “what happened”that allowed Dominic Cinelli, who hadthree life-sentences hanging over his head,to be released to murder Woburn OfficerJack Maguire? (Boston Herald – “Paroleno model,” January 4, 2011).

On behalf of most police officers, Gov-ernor, save the façade of your “panel of in-quisitors.” None of us believe you, and weare all keenly aware of exactly “what hap-pened.” What happened here is what hap-pens anytime when liberal ideology inter-jects itself into the criminal justice system.What happened here is that concern for the“rights” of the criminal, by a board largelyappointed by our Governor who is hell-bent

on reforming CORI laws to accommodateeven more criminals, superceded the rightsof the law-abiding and victims of crime.What happened here is that elitists whonever have to live with the results of theirown failures sent yet another oxygen-thief,scumbag back to the streets, for the policeto once again have to deal with, and withtragic results for Officer Maguire and hisfamily. The blood of Officer Maguire restssquarely with Governor Patrick and his pa-role board, but sadly, those of us in the lawenforcement community are fully aware thatneither he nor his fellow, isolated elitist “re-formers” give a damn about us, despite hisCheshire-cat “concern.” Save it, Governor.None of us believe you….

– James W. CarnellArea A-1 representative

Boston Police Patrolmen’s AssociationEditor, Pax Centurion

The Globe opines on “notsweating the (police) details”…The recent repairs on the Craigie draw-

bridge provide a banner example ofwhy police details inflate construction costseven when it makes sense to have uniformedofficers directing traffic.

The first stage of that project which re-quired the closing of the inbound stretch ofRoute 28 in front of the Museum of Sci-ence for about a month, seriously disruptedcommuting patterns. Using police ratherthan less-costly civilian flaggers was cer-tainly reasonable. And the state deservescredit for scaling back on the number ofdetails as the project progressed. That cutcosts from about $48,000 in week one toabout $30,000 in week three.

But that’s still a lot of money. In Bostonalone, on most weekdays, the project had11 detail officers and one supervisor in themorning, plus one detail officer in theevening, for a daily cost of about $2,300.

Additional officers on Fridays pushed thatday’s cost to about $2,800.

Here’s the rub – By 9:30 a.m. or so, traf-fic had tailed off to a light flow. Yet the de-tail officers stayed on duty until 11 a.m.Most mornings, a post-rush-hour drivercould see three or four officers near CitySquare in Charlestown and an equal num-ber along North Washington Street in theNorth End, doing little that the traffic lightsalone couldn’t have accomplished.

Why? Simple. Their stint started at 7 a.m.and their contract, like almost every policecontract, calls for a four-hour minimum.Thus the state ended up paying a dozen traf-fic-control officers for significantly longerthan they were needed. That’s one big rea-son that civilian flaggers save money. Whenthey aren’t necessary, they aren’t deployed.

(Reprinted from the Boston Globe, Janu-ary 3, 2011.)


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Labor Notes:Bryan Decker, Esq., BPPA Labor CounselSandulli Grace, P.C., Counsel to Members of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association

As you may know, a group of BPPAmembers have sued the City for vio-

lation of the Quinn Bill. In December, theSupreme Judicial Court agreed to hear thecase in the first instance, likely shorten-ing the length of the litigation by years.In addition, the SJC consolidated the casewith similar cases filed by members ofthe Detectives’ and Superior Officers’Unions. The officers filed their Brief withthe SJC at the end of January, and we arehopeful that a decision will be renderedbefore the summer.

The cases arose when the state slashedreimbursement to cities for fiscal year2009 Quinn bill payments to officers. Asyou may know, the current budget(FY2011) does the same. This action,which is nothing more than a back-doorlocal aid cut, prompted the city to reduceQuinn bill payments to all eligible Bos-ton Police Officers, resulting in thepresent suit. Thus, we find ourselves onceagain at the SJC defending our hard wonbenefits, this time thanks to ourgovernor’s decision to score politicalpoints by taking money away from po-lice officers (and thanks to ourlegislature’s decision to allow it).

A quick bit of background. First andForemost, the Quinn Bill (codified atM.G.L. c. 41, §108L) mandates that of-ficers “shall be granted” educational in-centives related to law enforcement de-grees. The Quinn Bill is a local optionstatute, meaning that it only applies inmunicipalities that voluntarily adopt it.The City Council adopted the Quinn Billin 1998, and eligible officers began re-ceiving Quinn benefits in July, 2000.

Significantly, the Quinn Bill does notallow for payments to be reduced or re-imbursed based on whether or not thestate fully reimburses a City for prior pay-ments to officers. M.G.L. c. 41, §108L isclear. Assuming proper certification of adegree, an officer:

shall be granted a base salary in-crease of ten per cent upon attain-ing an associate’s degree in law en-forcement or sixty points earned toa baccalaureate degree in law en-forcement, a twenty per cent in-crease upon attaining a baccalaure-ate degree in law enforcement, anda twenty-five per cent increase uponattaining a master’s degree in lawenforcement or for a degree in law.Thus, once a city adopts the Quinn Bill,

the statute mandates that the paymentsmust be made.

The provisions of the Quinn bill thatcall for a city to be reimbursed (that’s re-imbursed – meaning “paid back,” i.e. thestate sends the city money AFTER the citypays the officer) are separate and inde-pendent of the base salary increases that

By Danielle Masterson

The City of Woburn will pick up thestate’s share of the Quinn Bill funding,

now that the City Council Finance Commit-tee has voted in favor of the appropriation.

Mayor Scott Galvin brought the matterforward at the City Council sub-committeemeeting February 7, asking aldermen toapprove a $475,000 payment on the PoliceCareer Incentive Pay Program from thecity’s free cash account.

“We have always paid our share ofQuinn, always,” said Galvin. “The statestopped paying their share of the QuinnBill, which they paid for 10 years… Whenthe state stopped paying their share, Ididn’t think it was our responsibility topick it up.”

Since then, Galvin said he reevaluated thedecision with the help of the city’s attorneys.

“I felt, after consultation with our attor-neys, that it is in our better interest to pickup the state share that they stopped fund-ing,” said Galvin Monday.

The Quinn Bill was enacted in 1970 as away to encourage police officers to furthertheir education and receive criminal justiceand law enforcement degrees from second-ary education institutions. When police of-ficers earn degrees through the Quinn Bill,

City of Woburn Picks UpQuinn Bill DeficitCaused By State

Woburn City Council Finance Committeeappropriated nearly $500,000 to

completely fund the PoliceCareer Incentive Pay Program

they receive monetary incentives. For manyyears, the state paid half of the Quinn Billincentives, while cities and towns pickedup the rest.

“This is through no fault of the mayor,”said Alderman Ray Drapeau. “It’s reallyat the state level… The bill was passed, itshould have been upheld. Now this becomesan unfunded mandate.”

“When is it going to stop?” Drapeauadded. “We can’t keep absorbing their mis-management of money.”

Drapeau thanked Galvin for bringingforward the appropriation request, whichwill “right the ship, so to speak.”

With Monday night’s appropriation of$475,000, the city has $5.3 million remain-ing in the free cash fund.

Alderman Richard Gately said theQuinn Bill must be funded, with or withoutthe state, but he is concerned about whatwill happen in the next fiscal year.

“My fear is now, coming into this nextfiscal year, we’re going to be in the sameboat and money is going to be tighter,” saidGately. “I don’t want to see anybody in thecity take a hit or a cut in pay.”

(Reprinted from the Boston Police Su-perior Officers Federation website, Febru-ary 8, 2011.)

the Quinn bill mandates. In other words,whether or not the state “fully funds” theQuinn bill is IRRELEVANT to whetheror not the city is obligated to pay the sti-pends.

While the Quinn bill is clear in thelevel of “base salary increases” due toofficers, our collective bargaining agree-ment purports to modify those increases,specifically to allow for a city to reducepayments to officers if the state reducesfunding. The contract provides:

If for any fiscal year the reimburse-ment from the Commonwealth does notfully meet its fifty percent (50%) shareof educational incentive paid pursuant toM.G.L. c. 41, §108L, then eligible em-ployees shall subsequently be paid edu-cational incentives equal to 5.0%, 10.0%,or 12.5% based on the degree held andcertified, plus the percentage of the re-maining 5.0%, 10.0%, or 12.5% thatequals the percent of theCommonwealth’s share that was actuallyreimbursed by the Commonwealth for theprior fiscal year.

It is the contention of the lawsuit thatthis provision is NOT LEGAL. By law,a city and its unions cannot alter statu-tory requirements unless the statute atissue is specifically listed in the publicsector union law, M.G.L. c. 150E, §7(d).The Quinn bill is not listed in that law,so a city and a union cannot agree tochange it. The Supreme Judicial Courthas noted “that municipalities and pub-lic employee unions may not bargainover matters covered by” the Quinn Bill.Rooney v.Yarmouth, 410 Mass. 485, 493n.4 (1991).

Relying on the collective bargainingagreement, the City reduced Quinn Pay-ments to officers back in January, 2010.Thus, BPPA members with Quinn Billbenefits are now receiving payments thatare LOWER than the statutorily man-dated base salary increases. The contracttherefore conflicts with the Quinn Bill,and therefore the contract must yield. (Bythe way, while the City will likely whinethat the Union is trying to “go back” onthe negotiated provision, it must be notedthat the City has NEVER felt honorbound to stand by its own promises. TheCity has had no qualms in using c. 150E,§ 7(d) to overturn pro-officer provisionsin the collective bargaining agreement inthe past, such as the “indemnification”clause of the contract which the courtinvalidated some years ago.)

When no negotiated resolution to theQuinn Bill cuts was quickly reached, theindividual officers, on behalf of all pa-trol officers who receive Quinn Benefits,filed suit. While the BPPA members’ suitwas not the first filed over this issue, ithas leapfrogged to the front of the pack

now that it has advanced to the SupremeJudicial court.

Late last year, the officers and the Cityjointly asked the Supreme Judicial Courtto pluck the case out of Superior Courtand hear it in the first instance. A singlejustice of the court, after reviewing thepapers, agreed.

The parties’ have represented that fourseparate cases are currently before the Su-perior Court, which challenge the sameinterpretation of G.L. c. 41, § 108L, andits application to their collective bargain-ing agreements. Many more municipali-ties have negotiated clauses in collectivebargaining agreements substantially simi-lar to those at issue here. Because com-mon questions of law are before severalcourts, and the issues are of great finan-cial import to municipalities and policeofficers throughout the Commonwealth,the interests of justice require speedy anduniform resolution.

Last month, the officers filed their brief

in the case to the SJC. You can find a linkto the brief at the Sandulli Grace blog,http://sandulligraceonline.com/ (the linkto the brief is in the article “SandulliGrace Files Supreme Judicial Court BriefIn Case Challenging Quinn Bill Cuts”).Again, while our case was transferred tothe SJC before any decision was renderedbelow, the Middlesex Superior Court didissue a finding consistent with our posi-tion last month in a case involving NorthReading. You can read about the NorthReading case at pages 11-13 of our brief.

We’re very hopeful that the SJC willagree with us and rule that police officerswho have diligently pursued advancededucation for the benefit of their employerand themselves should be paid their fullQuinn Benefits. After the City of Bostonfiles its brief and we reply, the court willset the case for oral argument. We hopethat this will occur in the spring, and thatwe have a decision not long thereafter. Ofcourse, we’ll keep you posted.



They Served WithDignity and Honor

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We apologize for any errors or omissions.

Police OfficerFrank S. Young

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Police DetectiveJoseph H. Lundbohm

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Police DetectivePeter J. McDonough

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Police LieutenantFrancis R. Walsh

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Please mail this application and $24.00 annual dues to the:BPPA Retired Patrolmen’s Division

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We are now into a new year. I hopethis will be a healthy and prosper-

ous year for all of you. I write this letter toremind each and every one of you that, atour next meeting to be held on Thursday,March 3rd, annual dues of $24.00 for mem-bership in the BPPA Retirement Associa-tion are due. We now number approximatelyfour hundred (400) members, all retirees ofthe BPPA.

If you have not joined, and are hesitantto join, let me highlight some of the ben-efits that come with membership. Firstly, ifyou have any retirement issues that requirelegal assistance, you will have access to thelaw firms retained by the BPPA. Not a badbenefit for $24.00 a year. Also, you will haveaccess to the BPPA free passes to theFranklin Park and Stone Zoos, along withseveral other passes for the Museum of Sci-ence and others.

One of the principal objectives of theBPPA Retirement Association is to have the

ability to lobby through the power of theBPPA for our healthcare and retirementbenefits. Both of these benefits are currentlyunder assault from Beacon Hill. Only bystaying united in organizations such as theBPPA Retirement Association can we con-tinue to have an effective voice through ourlobbyist up on Beacon Hill.

Lastly, and just as important, this orga-nization gives you the means to keep incontact with people you have worked withyour entire adult life, but have lost touchwith over the years.

Our meetings take place on the firstThursday of every other month. At thosemeetings we disseminate information to ourmembers that we feel will help them in theirretirement.

Sincerely,David M. Mackin, Executive Director

BPPA Retired Patrolmen’s Division

Directors of theRetired

Patrolmen’sDivision of the

BPPA:John MurphyDavid MackinJoe VannelliJoe O’MalleyBilly Flippin

Next BPPA Retired Patrolmen’s DivisionMeeting is scheduled for

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011 at 1 pm at theBPPA Hall, 9-11 Shetland Street, Boston.

Guest Speaker: Director of the CityInsurance Office Gene Pastore will beon hand to answer your questions.

A REMINDER THATHEALTH INSURANCEOPEN ENROLLMENTOCCURS IN APRIL!

War Against the Middle Classby Jim Barry, BPPA Legislative Agent

Ihad a conversation with a regular working guy a few months back. He was tellingme all about his union and how much he appreciated everything they were doing

for him and his fellow workers. He said he wanted to get more involved with unionwork. Then all of a sudden he turned to me and said, “but what about thoseautoworkers... did you know they get a year’s full pay when they get laid-off?” Hesaid, “isn’t that is just ridiculous”. I looked at him and said “I want you to get a year’spay and benefits if you ever get laid-off. I want it for me, if I get laid-off.

A few months back, Fox News reported autoworkers were getting paid for “doingnothing”. That story was picked up by the Boston Globe and New York Times whichre-printed the story as gospel. The autoworkers union had negotiated into their con-tract a provision that if an autoworker was laid-off he/she was granted full pay andbenefits for up to one year or until they were rehired. Tragically these folks mostlikely were never getting re-hired. They were losing their jobs. Their careers wereover, along with medical, dental and pensions. Gone were good paying, middle classjobs. One year’s pay? For somebody who just lost the American dream? One year’spay, from a company you helped make billions of dollars in profits? It just doesn’tsound right. Yet it happened here in Framingham only 20 plus years ago. The GMplant in Framingham closed and jobs were shipped to Mexico. That plant in Mexicostill produced cars, trucks and profits. Just not in Framingham. Those autoworkersdidn’t get that year’s pay.

Here was a middle class guy and union believer. He was jumping all over a benefitof another union. He was buying into the corporate line? He was buying into the anti-union crap of Fox News? What didn’t he get? These laid-off workers got a guaranteeof full pay and benefits for up till one year, if they didn’t get their jobs back. This wasa lay-off. They were not getting paid to DO NOTHING. Nobody is scamming thesystem here. Nobody is “getting away” with something. This was agreed to by manage-ment and the workers. Management SIGNED OFF on this provision in the contract.

In case you haven’t caught on yet; there is a war on out there and it is against us.Wall Street is paying its’ executives millions of dollars in bonuses and swimming inprofits while the rest of the country limps around in the deepest recession of the last75 years. Where is the outrage at that? Congress just extended tax breaks for million-aires. How ridiculous is that?

Is the middle class still buying into the nonsense; if we cut your taxes, you canthen invest that money and retire rich? Or the bigger lie, of you too can be the nextBill Gates. Do people actually believe if they cut taxes everything is going to be OK?Teachers, police and roads will kind of work themselves out. All anyone should wantand need is a decent job, with decent pay and benefits. Pay your fair share of taxesand have safe streets and good schools. That’s the American dream. I want it forevery American and I support any politician that wants it too. What kind of Americandream is left with if good paying jobs are stripped from the middle class? What kindof America are we going to have?

Governor Deval Patrick:How well do you know him?…(continued from page A2)

as far as any self-respecting member of thelaw-enforcement is concerned, Gov. Patrickis a disaster and a disgrace.

Governor Patrick is nothing more thanan entitled, rich, elitist fraud who playedthe system for what it was worth. As mostof us attended public schools or our parent’sscraped and saved to send us to a parochial/private school, Governor Patrick attendedprestigious, elitist Milton Academy free-of-charge. He then attended Harvard Univer-sity, again free-of-charge. As a lawyer withthe civil rights division of the US JusticeDepartment under then-president BillClinton, he willingly defended a cop-killerin Florida. Governor Patrick also contrib-uted thousands of dollars to convicted rap-ist Benjamin Laguer. Laguer raped and tor-tured an elderly woman for eight hours.Laguer is also a huckster who has skillfullymanipulated idiot liberals for many, manyyears into believing that he is a victim ofracism and oppression. Several years ago,a conclusive DNA test was administeredthat proved beyond any shadow of a doubtthat Laguer was in fact the culprit. Gov.

Patrick quietly, shamefully, pulled his sup-port, but the fact that he contributed thou-sands of dollars to the rapist’s defense couldnot be refuted.

Patrick owns multi-million dollar man-sions in both Milton and in the Berkshires,despite proclaiming himself a “friend of theworkingman”. Governor Patrick has, at theurging of his liberal media friends, curtailedpolice details in favor of more-expensiveflagmen. Governor Patrick has virtuallyeliminated state funding for the Quinn Bill,an educational incentive for police officersin place since 1970, placing additional bur-dens on already financially-strapped citiesand towns. Governor Patrick’s parole boardhas released felons to the streets to kill cops,such as recently happened in Woburn. Gov-ernor Patrick desires to release morescumbags and maggots to the streetsthrough so-called CORI reform.

In short, Governor Patrick is no friendof police officers or law enforcement. Didany of you really vote him, and will youadmit it or explain why?

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The blame game

Playing politics with yourhealthcare

By Mark A. Bruno

Ihope you’re all paying attention towhat is going in regards to our

healthcare coverage. It seems everyonewants a piece of us lately. Tell peoplethat you’re a public employee and seehow fast they shoot you a dirty look. Youwould think that we are the cause of thewhole country’s financial collapse. Un-fortunately, this attitude is not gettingbetter. Taking away our Quinn Bill ben-efits was not enough. Now we have thegovernor along with some of our legis-lators looking to remove our healthcarebenefit from the collective bargainingprocess. Besides your retirement ben-efits, which is also under attack, yourhealthcare is probably the single mostimportant benefit you have.

It appears the Mayor will try to passa home rule petition through the CityCouncil in regards to switching us intothe GIC (General Insurance Council). Ifthis passes through the council, which Idoubt, it would then go up to the StateHouse. If the Mayor can’t get satisfac-tion through the council, he will makethe governor carry the ball through thelegislators. We are not making manyfriends politically as was evident on theloss of half of our Quinn Bill benefits.With the likes of Robert (I like my namepronounced DeLayo) DeLeo, I feel thatanything could change in a second, muchlike our New England weather. Thesepack of wolves boasted about how theyrejected a pay raise which amounted toa mere pittance next to what we lost andcould lose should our healthcare be takenfrom our collective bargaining. TheHouse Speaker may soon find himselfstanding beside Sal DiMasi if he keepshanding out lucrative jobs to unqualifiedrelatives and friends. I have no pity for

By James Barry, BPPA Legislative Agent

HEARD ON THE HILLHEARD ON THE HILL

any politicians who voted against hard-working cops and their families. They caneasily be replaced, as was evident in thelast election.

What you need to know is that no raisein the world could make up for the mon-ies you will be paying out through a GICplan. You can’t put lipstick on a pig. Whythey are trying to force hard-workingpublic unions to accept such an inferiorplan is beyond me. Some unions sold outfor paltry raises, while others were forcedto join. I’m sick and tired of hearing howtaxed municipalities are because of theirspiraling healthcare costs provided totheir employees. You bargained a contractwith your employees, and now youshould stick by it. Reneging on what iscontractual will not be an option. TheBPPA along with other unions is preparedto take the matter to court if need be. Wewill not stand by and have our pocketspicked by flimflam artist who managedto get voted into office. What we will dois wage an aggressive campaign againstthose who attempt to take away ourhealthcare benefit.

What we need to do is all stick to-gether on the matter of healthcare. Wewill not give up what was won throughdifficult negotiations. Every one of usmust call our elected officials and let themknow that we will not stand for our col-lective bargaining process being dis-mantled. We have already given too muchby taking zeros and having our Quinn Billcut in half. The lack of respect showntoward unions has been disgraceful lately.It’s time to take a stand and let some ofthese two-faced phoney politicians knowthat we are not going to take it anymore.Stand up and be counted. Do not allowthese politicians to play games with yourhealthcare.

After three long years local police stillshoulder major wage cuts

It was three years ago the wages of local police officers were cut by Beacon Hill.Today municipal police are still the only profession in public service singled out

for this extended and substantial wage cut. Asked to do more, with less, officers havestepped up and done just that.

We get that all public employees are all under attack on so many fronts. Ourcollective bargaining rights, health care and pensions are all under attack. The mediaand anti-union forces have attacked us with venom, not seen in our lifetimes. Theeconomy is as bad as it gets. We feel it and get it. We pay our family’s bills eachweek... kids are living back home, mortgage payments are due. Spouses are beinglaid-off.

Police officers know firsthand what effects the economy can have on the commu-nity. The 911 calls to police departments change. We receive more family troublecalls, more property crimes reported and more violent crimes committed.

The frontline for society is our local police officers. We wade right into the fray,every single day of the year. Be it a violent confrontation on our street or a familywhose seams are tearing apart because of the stress life has put on them.

We start our tour of duty looking for danger. We patrol our streets, searching for it.Unlike any another profession in public service, we face danger in our communities,so nobody else will have to.

We continue to ask the Governor and the Legislature to fully fund the Quinn BillProgram. For three years, we have not backed away from our commitment to servethe public’s safety. Three years is long enough to sustain this wage cut!

The Governor and Legislature have ended the program. That action gutted ourcollectively bargained benefit for future hires. That was enough!

Today, with no relief in sight from Beacon Hill. We call for justice. Justice forwhat is right. Restore wages that we collectively bargained. Unjust is the hundreds oflocal police officers who participated in the Quinn Bill Program on top of the cut, arerequired to pay their student loans monthly.

There is no justice in singling out local police officers. There is no justice incutting wages, to those who would if call upon lay down their lives to protect others.

If justice is not done by those who govern us, then please let impartial justice berendered by the SJC in this matter. It is quite enough.

By Kevin Doogan

Mayor Thomas Menino and his cro-nies in the media are ratcheting up

their rhetoric to join the sweeping attackson Unionism raging across this Country.No politician has the courage to publiclytell the truth and the media, including con-servative outlets, except us here at the PaxCenturion, have refused to report thetruth.

Governor Deval Patrick claims to havea two billion dollar shortfall in the upcom-ing budget. No efforts are directed to ad-dress the two billion dollars plus that arespent yearly on illegal aliens for their hous-ing, healthcare, nutrition and transitionalassistance aka welfare. These monies arepaid for by the average taxpayer. It’s of no

wonder that Social Security is tanking,when most of the recipients never donateda dollar into it! Yousee it’s because ofbleeding heart liber-als like GovernorPatrick and his ilk thatcontinue to give awaythe store. Yet this isn’taddressed instead themedia and politicianssay it is the greedypublic service Unionsthat are to blame.

Little or nothing iswritten or reported about the trillions ofdollars doled out yearly to healthy, ablebodied men and women, both legal and il-

legal alike, that have made fraudulent SSDIand transitional assistance claims aka wel-

fare as their career choice. Not only havethese lazy deadbeats milked this system drybut they have passed it down from genera-tion to generation. Isn’t it peculiar that thisfinancial bad luck has befallen the samefamilies, generation after generation.Granny and Grandpa are on the dole, thenMom and Dad join them on the dole andwouldn’t you know it so have their sons anddaughters. But don’t let this premeditatedlarceny get in the way of fiscal conscious-ness. Surely this premeditated thievery isn’tdragging the system down. The blameclearly lays in the greedy public service

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Governor Deval Patrick claims tohave a two billion dollar shortfall inthe upcoming budget. No effortsare directed to address the twobillion dollars plus that are spentyearly on illegal aliens for theirhousing, healthcare, nutrition andtransitional assistance aka welfare.

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By Police Officer Jay Moccia

When you’re young, birthdays markmilestones when you can do more

things, as you get older they mark off stuffyou can’t.

I don’t know why anyone was surprisedby NY Jets coach Rex Ryan’s secret littlefetish, he is a “foot” ball coach. In a re-lated incident, with the Pats out at least allthose stupid liability driven riot trainingsessions have come to an end... “MOVEMOVE MOVE” Go Celtics, Go Bruins, GoRed Sox...

Even with the hot chick in the red bikinigracing their ad, Iceland this winter is go-ing to be a very hard sell.

To open the new Republican controlledHouse session in Washington D.C., the U.S.Constitution was read. It’s probably the firsttime since High School Civics some of theseboobs have heard it.

Well, those wacky liberals are at it again:it seems they want to remove and edit Mark

Twain’s American Literary Classic “Huck-leberry Finn” because it includes the “N”word. Obviously, they’ve never read it, be-cause the inclusion of that word changesthe title character, as he sees his compan-ion as a human being not property. I’ll goalong with it as soon as Spike Lee, L’ilWayne, The Game, Ice T, Ice Cube, Tupac,Biggie and all the rest stop using it.

Speaking of the aforementioned Mr. Lee.Why was he allowed to jump onto the Courtat the tail end of a Celtics-Knicks game totaunt our men in Green? Ole’ Spike waswaving his towel and jabbing his finger af-ter Stoudamire hit what appeared to be abuzzer beating three pointer, but time hadrun out and the Celtics won. I don’t know,guys that run out at Fenway are arrestedand prosecuted, same at Gillette, the Gar-den and every other venue. Just because he’sa celebrity he can do this? A fine exampleyou set for youth... file under (try to) Do theRight Thing.

(Author’s note: this was written before acompromise was reached. It was too goodto omit and I actually spent some time re-searching the story):

Hats off to Headquarters! I would hopewhoever made the decision to “ban” the furTrooper/Russian hat has more exposure tothe weather than looking out a window.Despite what the Global Warming idiotsclaim, we work in the Northeast, a placewhere winter can and is sometimes harsh.In order to properly perform outdoor ac-tivities (D-E-T-A-I-L-S) you need to beadequately insulated from the elements.Surrounding cities and towns all know thisand provide equipment and guidelines fortheir Officers. The Massachusetts State Po-lice, Boston Transportation, Boston EMS,West Bridgewater, Quincy and Cambridge(in December) all authorize the use of the“Trooper” hat. Tewksbury, Milton, andBrookline (<32 degrees) allow knit caps.Common sense solution: when it’s cold out

or snowing you wear a winter hat. YourGrandma’s been telling you that since youwere three, don’t you love your Grandma?!?While our issued 8 point hat is nice enough( I am admittedly not a “hat” guy) it is afitted cover. Any change to your noggin,such as letting your hair grow long for youryearly hair test, or shaving your head causesthe fit of that 8 point hat to change. Whenyou add in the fleece balaclava you havetwo choices. You can jam your 8 pointerdown and endure the accompanying head-ache, or set it gently Gomer Pyle style onthe top of your head and chase it down thestreet every time Mother Nature sneezes.Some places, even in more balmy weatherprohibit the use of the 8 point hat as anyonewho has toiled near the John Hancock orHuntington Ave. Hospital corridor can at-test. As far as that #@$%&* issued Blauerjacket, if you’re not built like a bulimic su-per model, it is impossible, repeat impos-

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News Brieflets…News Brieflets… Compiled and commented upon by Patrick Carnell,Canisius College graduate, Buffalo, NY

“In the coming five years, our military will push forward preparations for militaryconflict in every strategic direction,” said Liang Guanglie in an interview published byseveral state-backed newspapers in China. “We may be living in peaceful times, but wecan never forget war, never send the horses south or put the bayonets and guns away,”Mr. Liang added. China repeatedly says it is planning a “peaceful rise” but the recentpace and scale of its military modernisation has alarmed many of its neighbours in theAsia-Pacific, including Japan which described China’s military build-up as a “globalconcern” this month.” – UK Telegraph, 12/29/10

Luckily, the traditional, ancient hatreds between the Chinese, Japanese, and Kore-ans serve as a temporary distraction, but honestly, at this rate, we might as well justhand China the keys and start writing up detailed lists of each other’s personal propertyfor them to “analyze.”

� � � � � � � � � � � �“When I suggested that Notre Dame’s hosting of ROTC was a large negative among

the school’s many positives, Hesburgh disagreed…. I asked if he actually believedthere could be a Christian method of slaughtering people in combat, or a Christianway of firebombing cities, or a way to kill civilians in the name of Jesus. Did he thinkthat if enough Notre Dame graduates became soldiers that the military would eventu-ally embrace Christ’s teaching of loving one’s enemies?”

– Colman McCarthy, Washington Post Op-ed, 12/30/10Oh, it gets better: this delicate ninny goes on to describe ROTC courses as “softie”

classes. What, according to the rest of his article, does he believe constitutes challeng-ing courses? “Peace studies,” and anything called “(fill-in-the-blank) Identity Studies.”And according to his own Wikipedia page, even World War II was an unnecessarybattle, reasoning that the Allies easily could have “waited out” Hitler until his death,among other hilariously absurd and infuriatingly dense quotes. Really, anything else Isay will detract from this previous little simpleton’s status as a real-life caricature.

� � � � � � � � � � � �“Amid the ongoing tensions between North Korea and the international community,

an educational scheme created by two young men from the US is engaging directly withcitizens and students inside the country. Organisers of the Pyongyang Project say theirprogramme is breaking down barriers to the secretive state that government bodiescannot…. “They took us to the beach, we got our swimming trunks on and they basi-cally said, ‘Go have a good time, you can talk to people’,” said Dave Fields, 27, aparticipant from the US state of Wisconsin. He said that while many of those on thebeach were malnourished in appearance, they were cheerful and receptive to speakingwith foreigners, inviting them to sit with them on the beach and challenging students tojump off a diving board into the sea.”

– BBC, 1/3/11And the phrase “useful idiots” finds a new home. What makes it worse is that one of

these little twits goes on to say she thought the empty, unused computer labs at Kim Il-Sung University was a “red flag” that something was wrong there. The “apparentlyordinary” malnourished “beach go-ers” are “cheerful,” and the 100,000-person danceroutine in honor of the Great Leader was “breathtaking” rather than “harrowing,” butan empty computer lab? Now THAT’S truly chilling.

� � � � � � � � � � � �“A retired Indian Gorkha soldier recently revisited those glory days when he

thwarted 40 robbers, killing three of them and injuring eight others, with his khukuri(knife) during a train journey. He is in line to receive three gallantry awards fromthe Indian government.” – Hamrosite (Nepal), 1/14/11

In addition, the man saved a girl from being raped by one of the robbers. Thereport doesn’t say if one of the unfortunate men ran threateningly toward the Gurkha,followed by a flash of silver before he dramatically fell into halves, but we’re forcedto assume it happened. If you don’t know who the Gurkhas are, the only thing youneed to know is they were the pretty much the only enemies the Japanese admittedthey genuinely feared during World War II. Sad thing is, this guy would be put ontrial in any Western country, as we allow no good public service to go unpunished.

� � � � � � � � � � � �Just a slim majority of Americans – 52% – think vaccines don’t cause autism, a

new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll found. Conversely, 18% are convinced thatvaccines, like the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, can cause the disorder,and another 30% aren’t sure. – USA Today, 1/23/11

Like the Moon Landing nonsense, JFK-assassination drivel, and 9/11 conspiracycrap, the Autism-vaccine link stupidity has been out there long enough to have apermanent home in the softer heads among us. When Jenny McCarthy on a trashytalk show is more widely believed than, say, actual science and logic, civilization istruly doomed.

� � � � � � � � � � � �“The vibrant protest movements across the Arab world, Russian human rights

activists and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will all likely be in the running forthe 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, observers say as the deadline for nominating candi-dates approaches.” – AFP, 1/30/11

President Obama says, “This man has done nothing to deserve this award.” Also,and maybe this is nitpicking, but the phrases “vibrant protest movements” and “theArab world” used in the same sentence doesn’t exactly scream “peace” to most ofthe world.

� � � � � � � � � � � �“A producer of a documentary alleging conspiracy theories behind the Sept. 11

terrorist attacks has been arrested on drug charges in upstate New York. Oneontapolice tell the Daily Star of Oneonta that 27-year-old Korey Rowe and a 19-year-old Bronx man were arrested after selling packets of heroin to an undercover of-ficer.” – Fox News, 1/31/11

What a surprise, one of the men who spent literally moments of research for hisvague definition of “the truth,” and chased after “unexplainable” black smoke turnsout to have been chasing the Black Pony instead. “Of course I can prove fire can’tmelt steel… I’ve been holding a lighter under this spoon for hours!”

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sible to direct traffic, get in or out of a car,or wrestle an unruly perp to the ground (soI’m told) without that elastic waist ridingup over your mid section and settling aroundyour sternum exposing your core and mak-ing you look like Britney Spears’ big fatcreepy uncle (c’mon you know she’s gotone). When I wear it I feel like a girl in ashort skirt. I spend a disturbing amountof time pulling it down. Yep, those jack-ets do look great on young Officers outof the Academy, but give them a coupleof years, a kid or two, and morningwatches full of Chinese food, and pizza,and Eisenhower style becomes a blue gore-tex sports bra. Has anyone looked beyondthe HQ gym before ordering these thingsor are they just shopping for a bargain? Iknow I’m starting to sound like a grumpyold man, but working sixteen hour daysto avoid working sixteen hour daysdoesn’t leave much time for the gym, andhave you seen how many restaurants areon Newbury Street? Instead of trying thatuniform on some guy or gal off the re-cruiting poster, find a couple of gnarledveterans, put it on them then make yourdecision, ‘cause we’re the guys who showup for all the crappy assignments (evenon our days off). Thanks to all the Offic-ers, Sergeants, Supply guys, and civilianclerks who patiently answered my que-ries about their respective Department’sWinter attire.

Whew, after all that the winter coats andhats are back! I guess even if the folks inthe Glass House may not always love us, atleast they love their Grandma’s!

As long as I’m on a roll... why don’t wehave 4x4’s available at all stations for ex-treme winter weather? Maybe, studdedsnow tires or chains for traction? It seemsall the 4x4’s are assigned to specializedunits, and I’m not not not dismissing them,but how many radio calls did they respondto during all our recent blizzards? Any copwho has tried to navigate our now evenmore narrow streets in their department is-sued luge knows how notoriously bad FordCrown Vics are in the snow. With the vener-able Vic line retired, I’m told the next-genPolice Cruisers will feature all-wheel driveand that’s a start, but I’ll be long gone be-fore the whole fleet is converted. Just get-ting out of the parking lot is becoming anevent. I don’t know what’s going to blowfirst, a tire, the transmission or my top. Twomore snowstorms and those guys on the USBobsled team better watch out!

The results are in and it’s Good News/Bad News for Massachusetts. The US Cen-sus shows our population is down, so thebad news is we lose a rep. in Congress. Thegood news? It’s definitely going to be aDemocrat!

It always makes me wonder, I work hard,pay my bills support my family, etc. But if Ihad to come up with $2000 on a Sundaymorning I couldn’t do it. YET, lock up somescumbag and someone’s down at the sta-tion within 45 minutes CASH IN HAND!

I always hear the sob sisters defendinglowlifes by blaming the economy for crime.

We’re told the people are hungry, that’s whythey steal. Okay, if that’s the case they wouldbe stealing from Stop & Shop, not Dolce &Gabbana.

I don’t know what number comes after a“trillion” but I’m sure before Obama is outI will.

Wow, Chicago Politics is so corrupt,they don’t even try to do the sneaky stuffbehind closed doors! Obama’s former Chiefof Staff Rahm “the naked bully” Emanuelmanaged to get his name back on the Chi-cago Mayoral Ballot after the Illinois Su-preme Court overturned a Lower Court de-cision removing him. It’s been no secretRahm has been at Obama’s side since hegot to Washington (about two years). Herented out his Chicago home for accommo-dations in DC, but the ISC agreed he stillhad residency status. And it’s not a partisandecision, both Dems and Repubs are repre-sented on the ISC, and it was unanimous.Too bad we couldn’t hire these morons tohear our residency claims. Think they askedhim where his sock draw was?

I don’t mean to seem insensitive (OK yesI do) but when did it become our job toshuffle bums between shelters. I know anddo realize it’s part of our job to remove thesehuman haz-mats to a place of repose, espe-cially in the Winter. I get it. I just don’t seewhere it becomes our responsibility to thentransport them from Pine Street to wher-ever for convenience sake. When it’s thatcold out, you leave them in the lobby, allthe shelters are just as crowded when themercury hovers around 0. We are Police-men, not shuttle drivers. We should only beinvolved if there is a threat of violence ofbreach of law. All these places have Out-reach vans, who could do this, they only callus to avoid liability I’ll wager.

The US is number 2 in the world on perstudent educational spending, yet we rank9 and 12 worldwide in Math and Science. Iguess if you spend like number 2 youshouldn’t be allowed to perform like num-ber 2.

An Ohio mother was sentenced to jailfor violating residency laws when she liedabout her address in order to get her soninto a better performing school district.Here in Massachusetts, meanwhile aHolyoke teacher was not sent to jail for anout of state tryst with her 15 year old stu-dent. The judge ruled that if the teacher weremale the purpose would have been sexualgratification, but as a female she was merelyconcerned about the boy’s “emotional well-being”. Where do we find these people?

I demand Al Gore and his crew explaintwo things to me: first, how airports in At-lanta, Georgia, and Dallas, Texas were bothrecently closed due to SNOW, and second:how come when I drive by the Franklin ParkZoo on cold days, gnus, native to Africa,are out walking around in the enclosures.

Boston cops recently managed to avoida tragedy when they got the drop on agangbanger armed with a an AR-15 rifle.The good guys came out on top, but howmany more incidents do we have to havebefore we are better equipped than our op-

It’s snow big deal!…(continued from page B2)

ponents? The MOP guys in the gun carsare good, but they can’t be everywhere. Weneed patrol rifles or shotguns NOW, andscenes like these only prove it.

4LOCO a caffeine infused alcoholic bev-erage was snatched off shelves after law-makers deemed it unsafe. The confiscatedbrew was morphed into ethanol for use inautomobiles. So it’s OK for my car to drinkand drive but not me?

Ezra Klein, a columnist for the Wash-ington Post, has opined that the US Consti-tution is out of date and should be discarded.See how quick Ezra claims the First if he’scensored, or HIS rights are infringed on.

A Woburn cop was shot and killed by aparoled career criminal just after Christmasduring a botched robbery attempt. The Of-ficer, Jack Maguire managed to return fireand drop his assailant. While it is always atragedy to lose a brother, his line of dutydeath brought to light glaring deficienciesin the Parole Board. Public and Media out-rage was so great, Gov Patrick did the firstthing in years that I’ve agreed with: He firedthe whole Board. Hopefully, the new boardwill be more diligent while reviewing thecases. Some people cannot be rehabilitated.

What’s going on with the Ground ZeroMosque?

An Arizona congresswoman was gunneddown by a nut armed with a semi-automaticpistol. Nineteen people were shot, six died,including a nine year old girl. A terrible trag-edy by any standard. Liberal media imme-diately tried to link the shooter to the Right,but the truth got out quick, and it turns outthis guy had some kind of twisted TaxiDriver thing going on. He was a stoned lonerwith an altar of skulls who probably shouldhave been in a Psych ward. In the wake ofthis shooting, attacks on the First and Sec-ond Amendment were lead stories. Rightwing politicians were advised to tone downtheir rhetoric and cries went out to ban guns,magazines, bullets, and target icons. Funny,no one called on the Liberals and ACLUtypes who fight to keep loons like this guyon the streets to explain why. This wasstrictly a case of a madman on a missionthat was not politically motivated.

In a bold move, Governor Patrickslashed Legislators pay a whopping .05%or about $300 a year. Boy, does that takethe sting out of our Quinn Bill cut.

First I thought dumping all this snow intothe harbor might be a good idea, but as Ipondered, one thing kept coming up. If wedump the snow now, will the MWRA ask

for a rate increase in June or July in orderto clean up all the pollutants from Febru-ary?

I recently saw a PSA featuring a bunchof Hollywood types talking about their men-tal illness... who’d have thought it...

No, I wasn’t ignoring all our snow, justprocrastinating. Some flakes for thought:Code Enforcement Officers were out inforce fining scofflaws who failed to shoveltheir walkways... including an elderly neigh-bor who managed to shovel her stairs, drive-way, front walkway, but not the side of hercorner lot home. Good job guys! Then Ithought, what about workers who can’t gethome to shovel, like cops, firemen, utilityworkers, doctors, nurses, why should theybe punished? To add insult to injury, I mademy way into work, and couldn’t believe myeyes when I observed a swarm of workersarmed with shovels, rock salt, ice melt, abobcat and dump trucks descend on theprojects across the street and clear paths andparking spots so neat, it looked like spring-time. Not one resident lifted a shovel, andevery walkway was bare as a baby’s bot-tom. And were these folks thanked with hotcocoa and warm hugs-no, one resident trot-ted over to D-4 to complain that they piledsnow BEHIND her parking spot and shehad to walk all the way around to get in herapartment. Someone should have given thatgal a shovel, and if she wouldn’t take it inhand it should have been applied to herample backside-ingrate. Meanwhile the D-4 lot looks like a scene from Alaska Troop-ers, without those great fur hats and shot-guns.

Comedian Tracy Morgan caused a bitof an uproar after claiming Sarah Palin wasonly good for (let’s just say “self satisfac-tion” – it’s a family show). Imagine ifO’Reilly or Hannity made the same remarksabout Hilary, Nancy, or Sotomayor, but thenagain why would you... Oh Sarah!

A convict on work release was on thejob at the State House when he decided heno longer wanted to be a guest of the Com-monwealth, and simply walked away... Ithought Prisoners weren’t supposed to as-sociate with known felons.

Liberals claim Right Wing Talk Radiocauses violence... have they seen the crapthat Hollywood puts out? The gratuitousviolence and graphic sex are featured with-out censorship, and they claim it doesn’thave an effect on children. If that’s so true,why do they go out of their way to excludesmoking and drinking?

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unions. Those cops, firefighters, teachers,janitors and public service workers are toblame.

The government pension system is alsobeing blamed for dragging down thegovernment’s ability to operate in the black.Yet politicians continue their spending spreefor all travel junkets and personal perks.Governor Patrick hasn’t curtailed his trav-eling nor has Mayor Menino. The Mayoreven picked up an infection during his Eu-ropean tour causing a hospital stay upon hisreturn. The fact that politicians don’t equallycontribute to the pension system and the factthat judges don’t contribute at all, but bothgroups receive huge pensions. Surely thisthievery isn’t draining the system, it has tobe the public service unions again. Theworkers save the government millions insick pay, coupled with millions in replace-ment worker cost by not calling in sick, thenscrew the government by buying back atretirement a fraction of what could havebeen spent, clearly more abuse by thegreedy public service unions.

Talking about the Mayor’s health, howcome Boston Medical Center has a build-ing named after Menino, yet he only seemsto go to the Brigham? The Mayor is franti-cally, and I believe illegally, trying tobackdoor public service unions by apply-ing for a Home Rule Petition for his ownBoston GIC as well as lobbying the Legis-lature on Beacon Hill to change the law sohe doesn’t have to bargain for healthcare

changes and enact his own plan design orinclude all of us in a Statewide GIC. I won-der if the Mayor intends on affording theworkers the same healthcare he is enjoy-ing. He has had numerous extended staysin a penthouse suite at Brigham andWomen’s Hospital, most recently for aninfected arm. I personally know of a co-worker’s wife who was sent home two daysafter brain surgery. Is it me or doesn’t it seemlike the Mayor is milking the system?Clearly it is the lowly worker’s healthcareand not the free healthcare given to illegalaliens, to the unemployed, to the scam art-ists and to the entitled politicians that is driv-ing up the cost of healthcare. Yup, in themedical capital of the world, send the taxpaying workers to rationed out substandardhealth clinics instead of the world class hos-pitals. We wouldn’t want the Governor, theMayor or their illegal aliens to wait whilepaying customers get in the way of theirfreebees.

In closing, shame on all these politiciansthat jump on the anti-union bandwagon.Unions represent less than thirty percent ofthe workforce across this country, yet unionsset the pay scales and working conditionsfor everyone. People should ponder that, andlet that sink in. Without unions the likes ofGovernor Patrick, Mayor Menino and thePresident would be free to shove their so-cialistic agenda down our throats while lin-ing their pockets and those of their croniesat our expense.

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PAXCENTURION Section CPAXCENTURION Section CDistrict 7 City Council Candidates Answer the BPPA Questionnaire…

1. I strongly support educational incentives for Boston’s police officers in line with theQuinn Bill. With appropriate reforms, I would support the BPPA’s efforts to fullyfund the Quinn Bill.

2. I do support the functionality of the Joint Labor Management Committee. I believe itis an important mechanism for the facilitation of an open dialogue between the cityand organized labor. As Councillor, I will vote to abide by lawful resolution and/orarbitration rendered by that committee.

3. I think that far too much prime real estate has been removed from the city’s tax rollsand large non-profits should pay a greater share than they currently do. At the sametime, the P.I.L.O.T payments remain voluntary. As Councillor, I will work the mayor,large non-profits, the state legislature, and the City Council to develop legislationthat make universities make tiered payments based on a matrix.

4. I support installing traffic cameras to capture pictures of traffic violations and issuingcitations. Increased use of this technology saves lives. A recent study by the Insur-ance Institute for Highway Safety found that cities with red-light cameras reducedthe number of fatalities when compared to cities that did not have the technology.Additionally, the potential revenue from tickets issued from violations captured bythe cameras could help save important public safety jobs. It is important that thesecameras not be disproportionately installed in minority communities.

Boston City Council 2011 Special Election

BPPA Questions to the Candidates1. Do you support the educational incentive for police officers known as the

Quinn Bill? Will you actively support the BPPA’s efforts to fully fund theState’s portion of Quinn (even if that effort included the funding of theState’s portion by the City)?

2. Do you support the functionality of the Joint Labor Management Commit-tee and will you as a Boston City Councillor vote to abide by lawful resolu-tion and/or arbitration rendered by that committee? Please Explain.

3. Over half the property in Boston is owned by tax exempt entities. Do yousupport taxing or aggressively seeking payment in lieu of taxes from thesetax exempted entities in Boston?

4. Do you support traffic cameras for capturing pictures of traffic violationsand issuing citations? Please explain.

5. Do you support the call for a formal study and recommendations of policejurisdictional overlap within the City of Boston? Please explain.

6. Do you support the use of Boston Police details (BPD Area B-2 & B-3 cur-rently field on average over 50 extra Boston Police Officers during a 24hour period on details throughout District 7) at roadside construction sites?Explain please.

7. Do you believe that the Boston Police Department should have primaryjurisdiction over all 911 calls for police services within the City of Boston,including Massport owned property inside the City of Boston?

8. Do you believe private college security forces should have the power to stopmotor vehicles on public ways? Please explain.

9. Have you ever crossed a BPPA or any union/labor picket line? Please ex-plain.

10. Do you support civil service system for testing police candidates for entryor promotion?

11. Do you support the use of uniformed Mass. State troopers policing insidethe neighborhoods of the City of Boston?

12. Do you support the city’s employees joining the Group Insurance Commis-sion?

13. Do you support current state law (Chapter 150E) which requires both par-ties collectively bargain any changes to the city’s health insurance plans?Please explain.

14. Do you think impact bargaining is sufficient when changes are being madeto the health plans offered by the city?

15. Will you support the BPPA’s efforts to stop the proposed plan design healthinsurance without collective bargaining? Please explain.

Tito Jackson5. Yes. Currently, the State Police have exclusive ju-

risdiction over all MassPort property. This includesthe Seaport neighborhood of Boston. If someonecalls 911 from that area, Boston Police Depart-ment officers only have the authority to issue a citi-zens arrest. In the rest of the Boston, the city andstate police have concurrent jurisdiction. I wouldsupport the call for a formal study and recommendation of police jurisdictional over-lap.

6. I support examining the current legislation to allow for details on low-speed, high-traffic thoroughfares in Boston.

7. All landline 911 calls in Boston are sent to the Boston Police Department. All cellphone 911 calls are forwarded to the BPD from the Massachusetts State Police. In anemergency situation, every second counts. With the Boston Police Department han-dling 911 calls, I believe they should have jurisdiction for these police services, in-cluding Massport owned property inside the City of Boston.

8. The power of private college security forces should stop at the campus border. Onlypolice officers serving the people of the community should have this power.

9. No.10. I support the banding of scores as one of many ways to evaluate police candidates

from entry or promotion while minimizing disparate impact for women and peopleof color.

11. While there are some joint-task forces between state troopers and city officers, localcops know the neighborhoods of Boston better than state troopers who come in fromother parts of the Commonwealth. The key to successful community policing arepatrolmen who are part of the neighborhood. Those patrolmen are in the BostonPolice Department.

12. No.13. Yes. I believe employees have a right to bargain collectively with the city. Any at-

tempt to strip this basic right is unconstitutional and unconscionable. I will use thepower of the office to work alongside the BPPA to ensure the protection of this right.

14. No. If changes are being made to health plans offered by the city after the contract isnegotiated, unions should be part of the negotiation process. Terms should not bedictated by the city.

15. I believe any effort to strip workers of their collective bargaining right or disregardthe process through the legislative process is unconscionable. As Councillor, I willrespect the collective bargaining process.

Roy Owens1. I support the right of the union to have the opportu-

nity to reject any proposal not in the member’s bestinterest.

2. I support the right of the union to have the opportu-nity to reject any proposal not in the member’s bestinterest.

3. No answer.4. If necessary.5. If necessary.6. No answer.7. This might call for confusion in the separation of powers and thus it might be better to

conduct a study to prevent problems that could appear later.8. Only in a particular emergency event.9. No.10. Yes.11. In emergency cases if need arises.12. If it can benefit all sides.13. I support the right of the union to have the opportunity to reject any proposal not in the

member’s best interest.14. The impact bargaining position Is something that is yet to be determined.15. I support the right of the union to have the opportunity to reject any proposal not in the

member’s best interest.

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Beware the BladeBy Mark A. Bruno

Iwait in anticipation. I know it is only amatter of time before my nemesis turns

the corner and makes his way toward me. Iloathe this man for the blade he carries. Notsince “West Side Story” have I seen a bladeused with such precision. I’ve dug myselfout of deep situations, but I can feel thereaper looking down upon me. What cun-ning moves will he make as he approaches?I must stand my ground or get buried try-ing.

I can remember my childhood and bul-lies like this coming around the corner withtheir blades out, just threatening to take outand clear away anything that gets in theirway. How do you stop them? They maketheir way through just slicing and cutting.All in their way will be cut down and pushedback. These road warriors fear nothing.Their hearts are as cold as ice, and they carenot who they bury.

I can feel a cold chill run up and downmy spine. This assassin is just laying in waitlike a tiger ready to pounce on its prey. Ican feel his presence and fear that all I havedone to prevent this confrontation will allbe for not. I can see him from afar watch-ing my every move. He is reading me like abook. I have nowhere to hide from this thugwith a blade who is about to bear down onme. I decide to dig in and stand my ground.

I watch him as makes his approach. Hethinks I’m not looking, but carefully I watchhim from the corner of my eye. He getsrevved up and starts his approach.

Down goes the blade as he glides towardme. I stand like a bullfighter waiting for thebeast to pass. It has all come down to this.He stares at me with a cold look that lookslike a shark’s eyes right before he goes intoa feeding frenzy. He has his job to do, and Ihave my driveway to protect.

I’m afraid I cannot stop him as he bar-rels down on me. I can see the white tiderising as he closes in. I jump back, givingin as he makes his pass. I stand there for amoment with my shovel in hand and a lookof horror on my face. All the snow I justshoveled out for the last three hours has nowbeen placed back. I was hoping he wouldlift his blade and show some mercy, but itwas not to be.

This man in his pickup truck with asnowplow up front, had literally broken myspirit. I was feeling such a sense of accom-plishment which was dashed in a matter ofseconds by this heartless miscreant.

I could swear he snickered as he passedme. I’m tempted to put a couple of roundsin his tires, but I keep my composure andbegin to clear away the snow, AGAIN!

By James F. Lydon, Jr.

He does. No, really, he does.It looks to be some kind of a flintlock

or matchlock pistol. The gun is kept rightunder his pillow, and it is easily accessible.I guess if you live alone and sleep with yourwindow open, as Geppetto does, then itmight make sense to have a firearm nearby.You just do not know who is going to popin.

This was one of the many thoughts roll-ing around in my brain when I watched the1940 Disney classic, Pinocchio, for the firsttime the other day. (Yes, for the first time.So sue me.) In the scene when Pinocchiocomes to life, he knocks over some pots andpans, waking the sleeping Geppetto. Whenthe startled toymaker asks who was there,Pinocchio responds with, “It’s me.” Theknowledge that there should be no one elsein his home prompts Geppetto to pull hisfirearm out from under his pillow in orderto address the unknown threat. My mindreeled at that point. I thought, wait a minute,this is a Disney movie, and Geppetto iswielding a gun? Isn’t this the same com-pany that, along with Pixar, made Woody’s

Geppetto sleeps with a gun

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gun mysteriously absent in the Toy Storymovies? And here is Geppetto, grandfatherof all Disney characters, getting ready tofire some rounds downrange in defense ofhis home. Charlton Heston must’ve beenproud. (Although I am sure that CharltonHeston would be unhappy with Geppetto’spoor discipline with firearms: Finger out-side the trigger guard, Geppetto!)

If you have not ever seen Pinocchio, likeme, or if you have not watched it in a longtime, sit down and check it out. It is a mar-vel of animation skill; no computers to makethings easier and more smooth. Pinocchiois hand drawn and it is done with love andwith a degree of skill that shames some ani-mation today. Along with being a work ofart, this movie is a highlight on society andculture. I am sure that in 1940 it was notmeant to be, but when viewed in the year2011, it becomes that. To someone withcommon sense, never will it be clearer howmuch our society has changed in seventyodd years.

Sure, some of the gangsters in the oldLooney Toons cartoons used to tote TommyGuns and smoke cigars, but they were

adults, and criminals, to boot. In Pinocchio,the title character and a literal boatload ofwayward children are lured to a place calledPleasure Island where they get to smokecigars, drink what looks like beer, and brawlin tents devoted to fist fighting.

I mentioned common sense before.When someone with that very rare qualityviews Pinocchio, they will get a treat: a viewinto the past that should cause them tochuckle and smile. If someone without com-mon sense were to view Pinocchio, otherfeelings could be agitated. We currently livein a society that is trying to make CookieMonster switch from cookies to vegetables,and here kids are puffing away on cigars!For me, it was a beautiful sight to behold. I,however, have common sense (no, really, Ido). Other, more liberal minded peoplemight see Pinocchio as a threat. They mightfeel that if kids were to view Pinocchio, theymight suddenly pick up a gun, or light up acigar, or brawl in the streets. I am willing tobet that there is a small group of parentsout there, right now, who would love to seeold cartoons like Pinocchio banned.

Sure, I have a child now, and I wouldnot want to introduce her to tobacco or beeror fight clubs. I want to protect her from allthat; but there’s the point: I want to protecther. I do not need society to do that for me.

If she sees kids smoking cigars in a cartoonthat was made almost three quarters of acentury before she was born, then it is myjob to tell her that is wrong. I should be sit-ting right next to her, remote in hand, sothat I can censor what she watches, or atleast explain what she sees. Parents need toparent, and not form protest groups to bancartoons.

To end on a more upbeat note (relatively),I just want to comment on an overlookedaspect of Pinocchio. This is a mildSPOILER (if seventy year old cartoons caneven have spoilers). One of the beautifulthings about Pinocchio is that the bad guyswin. Sure, Pinocchio and Geppetto find eachother in the end, but the bad guys get awaywith everything. The two scoundrels whotrick Pinocchio, the wicked puppet masterwho kidnaps Pinocchio, and the evil mas-termind who is responsible for scores ofboys disappearing into slavery; they all notonly walk away unscathed and carry on withtheir lives, but they remain unpunished andfully in business. This was very interestingto see. Pinocchio is not some highflyingmoral trip in which all wrongs are rightedwithin the allotted hour and a half. It is amovie that does not exist beyond what it is:the magical story of a puppet who becomesa real boy.


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Don Green is a Quincy native and 1957 graduate of Quincy High School.After high school, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and returnedto Quincy after being honorably discharged.

In 1966, working out of the Quincy Police Boy’s Club, he became thelight-heavyweight Golden Gloves Champion in Lowell. He boxed in theAmateurs for three years.

In 1968, he joined the Boston Police Department and retired in 1990 afterserving the city for nearly 22 years, the last 15 years as a Sergeant in theRoxbury district. He graduated from both Northeastern University andNortheastern University School of Law.

The first Law Offices of Donald E. Green was opened in Boston in 1982and the second in Dudley Square in Roxbury in 1988. The most recent office was opened in Braintree in2001 and is located at 222 Forbes Road, Suite 200, which is located across from the South Shore Plazaand behind the Sheraton Tara Hotel. This office offers a convenient location for Quincy and other SouthShore residents. There is free parking and the office is handicapped accessible.

Don’s law partner is his wife, Annette Hill Green, who grew up in Dorchester and is also a graduate ofNortheastern School of Law. They married in 1997, have two young children and reside in Milton.

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Why is it?By Detective Mike Kane

District 18• The Boston area TV news decided it’s

more important to cover a snowstorm be-fore they cover the tragic murder ofWoburn Police Officer John “Jack”Maguire?

• 74% of the White House staff received a9% pay increase in 2010? (Readers Di-gest January 2011)

• Police officer in the line of duty deaths inthe US increased by 37% in 2010, butthe men and women of the Boston policedidn’t receive an email on officer safety,using caution when dealing with domes-tics, or how important it is to wear bodyarmor? Nope only one email comes fromHeadquarters during the sameweek….The importance of wearing thecorrect winter hat. How’s that for moraleeveryone? To say that there are somepeople in positions in headquarters thatare so far removed and so out of touchfrom what’s important to the troops is ahuge understatement.

• We again hear that the snow removal bud-gets in just about every city and town aredepleted after just a few snow storms? Iwonder if the city and town leaders livein New England or if snow storms aresomething new to them?

• Michelle Obama wants the governmentto tell us what we can and cannot eat? Ibelieve Americans can decide for them-selves what’s healthy and what isn’t.

• Riot stick training isn’t just put on-lineso that it can be a “State of the Art” BPDcourse? Better yet every officer gets is-sued a Wii with the stick training on it.You can practice in your living room anduse family members as role players.

• Obama treats the President Ho of Chinaas if he were a saint? A glamorous partyat the White House, great food, expen-sive wine, and plenty of slaps of the backfrom people like John Kerry and NancyPelosi. This for a man who leads a coun-try that has been criticized by the worldcommunity for its continued human rightsviolations and oppressive tactics on itsown citizens. The United States oncestood against bullies like HO. Now we

have a clown in the White House thathonors a dictator. How’s that hope andchange looking now?

• I could watch the replay of Jets coach RexRyan throwing his headset on the fieldand swearing over and over again as histeam went down in flames to the Steelers?It’s just great comedy and a perfect end-ing for a complete jerk.

• Gov. Patrick supporters have praised himup and down for asking the majority ofthe parole board to resign? Isn’t that whatshould have been done the day after Of-ficer Maguire’s murder?

• People feel the need to go for a run in themiddle of a snow storm with zero visibil-ity? I recently saw someone on a bikeduring one of the snow storms. I don’tget it.

• Sarah Palin is getting blamed for theshooting in Tucson? Is it because therewere little target symbols on her webpage? So we can no longer say or use theword “target”. I wonder if we can stillsay things like, “I hope the Patriots KILLthe Jets next year? Or will that encour-age people to KILL each other? Can wewish an actor good luck by saying ‘Breaka leg”? How soon before this Obama hasa “Speech Czar” and a list of words wecan no longer speak?

• No matter who the judges are, I still won’twatch American Idol?

• Deval Patrick thinks it’s a good idea toraise the retirement age for public em-ployees? (Boston Globe 01-19-11). Iguess it makes sense in Deval’s warpedmind because someone (working class)

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Information needed on oldBoston Police Badges

Over two years ago I came into possession of several badges that belong to retiredor deceased officers of the Boston Police. Somehow these badges

were not given to the officer or his family upon retirement or death. Istarted out with thirteen badges that are encased in acrylic and withthe help of Pax readers I have returned all but five. If you know thewhereabouts of any of the following officers or their families pleasecontact me and I will mail out the badge.

Badges To Be Returned: SPECIAL ATTENTION TO RETIRED OFFIC-ERS: INFO NEEDED on the following retired officers.

PO Steven W. MacFarland, Dates of service – 6/27/79 to 4/23/82, Badge #2192PO John D MacDonald, Dates of service – 12/20/44 to 5/19/77, Badge #1658PO Henry Nelson, Jr., Dates of service – 10/21/63 to 11/19/84, Badge #946

(deceased)PO Joseph W. Rozario, Dates of service – 9/27/61 to 11/30/81, Badge #2680Sgt. Victor Smith, Dates of service – 12/13/50 to 5/31/85, Badge #417

– Thanks, Detective Mike Kane, District 18

has to pay for all the free stuff the “wel-fare cheats” keep insisting on. These areDeval’s supporters and he has to keepthem happy.

• I thought watching the movie “TheTown” would be a waste of time watch?But I was wrong….it was pretty good.

• I can’t even match one number when Iplay Powerball?

• “Up Chuck” Turner just can’t stop trying

Statistics on officers killedin the line of duty shootings

The following information is taken fromthe Law Enforcement Officers Killed andAssaulted (LEOKA) website. Each time apolice officer is killed in the line of duty inthe United States statistics are compiledconcerning the incident. Here is a samplingof some of those statistics.

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In 2009, a total of 48 officers were shotand killed. 2009 represents the most up

to date year. It is often thought police offic-ers with less experience make up the ma-jority of the officers killed.

But here is a breakdown of years of ser-vice the 40 of the 48 officers had. Someofficers had more/less years of service butthe chart below illustrates where the major-ity of officers are grouped.

Years of service1 year to 5 years ............ 13 officers killed6 to 10 years .......................... 12 officers11 to 15 years ........................... 9 officers16 to 20 years ........................... 6 officers

2009 – Age breakdown of 41 of the 48officers. Some officers were younger than25 and some older than 45. The chart be-low illustrates where the majority of theofficers is grouped.

Age of officer25 years old to 30 years old ....... 9 officers31 to 35 .................................... 8 officers36 to 40 .................................. 11 officers41 to 45 .................................. 13 officers

to convince the few supporters left thathe was “set up” by the government? “UpChuck,” or should I call you inmate#756291, you betrayed the people whoelected you and trusted you. It wasn’t aconspiracy… it was your STUPIDITYin believing the City of Boston was yourpersonal amusement park. Enjoy yourthree years behind bars and don’t forgetto write home.

• Just trying to replace your car’s air filtercan be a challenge?

• After the shooting tragedy in Tucson theonly thing our politicians want to do ismake MORE laws that will impact thehonest gun owners in the country? Howabout admitting that more laws don’tmean anything to the nutcases andpsycho’s that get their hands on a gun thatis illegally possessed?

• Unlike some people I’ve talked to I justcan’t put all the blame on Tom Brady forthe loss to the Jets?

Stay Safe.

Time of Incident: (Year 2009)Twenty-one officers were killed during

the AM hours. Here is a breakdown of themajority.Between 0801 hrs and 1000 hrs............................... 8 officers were killed

Between 0601 hrs and 0800 hrs............................... 5 officers were killed

Between 1201 am and 0200 hrs............................... 3 officers were killed

All other two hour periods varied in num-ber.

Twenty-seven officers were killed dur-ing the PM hours. Here is a breakdown ofthe majority.

Between 2001 hrs and 2200 hrs............................. 10 officers were killed

Between 1201 pm and 1400 hrs............................... 5 officers were killed

All other two hour periods............................... 3 officers were killed

Distance between victim officer andoffender measured in feet (Between theyears 2000-2009)

Total Officers killed during this period: 490

Distances in feetBetween 0-5 feet ......... 247 officers killedBetween 6-10 feet ................... 89 officersBetween 11-20 feet ................. 63 officersBetween 21-50 feet ................. 35 officersOver 50 feet ............................ 30 officersNot reported ........................... 26 officers

It is my hope that by understanding thecircumstances in which fellow officers havemade the ultimate sacrifice both current andfuture officers can better prepare and pro-tect themselves while on duty.

Stay Safe.– Det. Mike Kane, E-18


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CourageYou’re a 19 year old kid. You’re critically wounded and dying in the jungle some

where in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam.It’s November 11, 1967. LZ (landing zone) X-ray. Your unit is outnumbered 8 to

1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commandingofficer) has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in. You’re lying there,listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you’re not getting out. Yourfamily is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you’ll never see themagain. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day. Then – over themachine gun noise – you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter. You look up to see aHuey coming in. But... It doesn’t seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it.

Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.He’s not MedEvac so it’s not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he’s

flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.Even after the MedEvacs were

ordered not to come. He’s com-ing anyway. And he drops it in andsits there in the machine gun fire,as they load three of you at a timeon board. Then he flies you up andout through the gunfire to the doc-tors and nurses and safety. And,he kept coming back!! 13 moretimes!! Until all the woundedwere out. No one knew until themission was over that the Captainhad been hit four times in the legsand left arm. He took 29 of youand your buddies out that day.Some would not have made itwithout the Captain and his Huey.

Medal of Honor Recipient,Captain Ed Freeman, United States Air Force, died recently at the age of 70, inBoise, Idaho.

May God Bless and Rest His Soul.� � � � � � � � � � � � � � �

I bet you didn’t hear about this hero’s passing, but we’ve sure seen a whole bunchabout Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and the bickering of Congress over Health Re-form.

Shame on the American media!!!

Four old retired guys are walking downa street in West Palm Beach, Florida.

They turned a corner and see a sign thatsays, “Old Timers Bar – all drinks 10 cents.”

They look at each other, and then go in,thinking this is too good to be true.

The old bartender says in a voice thatcarries across the room, “Come on in andlet me pour one for you! What’ll it be,Gentlemen?”

There was a fully-stocked bar, so eachof the men ask for a martini. In short order,the bartender serves up four iced martinis.Shaken, not stirred, and says, “That’ll be10 cents each, please.”

The four men stare at the bartender for amoment. Then look at each other, they can’tbelieve their good luck.

They pay the 40 cents, finish their mar-tinis, and order another round. Again, fourexcellent martinis are produced with thebartender saying, “That’s 40 cents, please.”They pay the 40 cents, but their curiosity ismore than they can stand.

Old retired copsThey have each had two martinis and so

far they’ve spent less than a dollar. Finallyone of the men says, “How can you affordto serve martinis as good as these for a dimea piece?”

“I’m a retired tailor from Boston,” thebartender said, “and I always wanted to owna bar. Last year I hit the Lottery for $25million and decided to open this place. Ev-ery drink costs a dime – wine, liquor, beer,it’s all the same.”

“Wow!!!! That’s quite a story,” says oneof the men.

The four of them sipped at their marti-nis and couldn’t help but notice seven otherpeople at the end of the bar who didn’t havedrinks in front of them, and hadn’t orderedanything the whole time they were there.

One man gestures at the seven at the endof the bar without drinks and asks the bar-tender, “What’s with them?”

The bartender says, “Oh, them, they’reall old retired cops, waiting for happyhour when drinks are half price.”

Well, well, can’t say I’m sorry for thatdead from the neck up. F#$k with the bulland you’ll certainly get the horn. So muchfor messing with the Marine Corps.

Marine stabbed, but look what happenedto the suspect. Think they took things toofar? Not me! You really have to be carefulwhen running with stolen merchandise!

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AU.S. Marine Reservist collecting toysfor children was stabbed when he

helped stop a suspected shoplifter in east-ern Georgia. Best Buy sales manager OrvinSmith told The Augusta Chronicle that aman was seen on surveillance cameras Fri-day putting a laptop under his jacket at theAugusta store.

When confronted, the man became irate,

Marine stabbed bysuspected shoplifter

knocked down an employee, pulled a knifeand ran toward the door. Outside were fourMarines collecting toys for the servicebranch’s “Toys For Tots” program.

Smith said the Marines stopped the man,but he stabbed one of them, Cpl. PhillipDuggan, in the back. The cut did not ap-pear to be severe.

The suspect was transported to the localhospital with two broken arms, a broken leg,possible broken ribs, assorted lacerationsand bruises he obtained when he fell tryingto run after stabbing the Marine.

The suspect, whose name was not re-leased, was held until police arrived. TheRichmond County Sheriff’s office said it isinvestigating.

– Associated Press, November 27, 2010

While on a road trip, an elderly couplestopped at a roadside restaurant for

lunch. After finishing their meal, they leftthe restaurant, and resumed their trip.

When leaving, the elderly woman un-knowingly left her glasses on the table, andshe didn’t miss them until they had beendriving for about forty minutes.

By then, to add to the aggravation, theyhad to travel quite a distance before theycould find a place to turn around, in orderto return to the restaurant to retrieve herglasses.

All the way back, the elderly husbandbecame the classic grouchy old man. Hefussed and complained, and scolded his wiferelentlessly during the entire return drive.The more he chided her, the more agitatedhe became. He just wouldn’t let up for asingle minute.

To her relief, they finally arrived at therestaurant. As the woman got out of the car,and hurried inside to retrieve her glasses,the old geezer yelled to her, “While you’rein there, you might as well get my hat andthe credit card.”

Road trip

1. Can two name the two U.S. Presidents who are buried in Arlington National Cem-etery?

2. The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits anyone from being electedpresident more than twice, what year was it ratified?

3. Can you name the first president born after the adoption of the United States Consti-tution in 1776?

4. Can you name the first U.S. President to survive an assassination attempt?5. Can you name the six U.S. Presidents who did not serve at least one four year term?

How much do you knowabout our Presidents?

President’s Day Trivia: Bill Carroll?

(see answers on page C15)

Sports Trivia: Bill Carroll?How many can

you get correct?1. What two major league pitchers pitched a perfect game in 2010?2. Who was the last National League third baseman to win the MVP Award?3. Who was the only rookie in the majors to score 100 runs in 2010?4. Who was the last NBA player to average at 20 points and 15 rebounds in a season?5. At the time that Brett Favre’s consecutive games played streak ended at 297, who then

became the league leader in consecutive games played?6. Who were the American League and National League Rookies of the Year in 2010?7. Who was the leading money winner on the PGA Tour in 2010?8. What major league team had the most multiple home run games in 2010?9. Who was the only Red Sox player to hit a walk-off home run in 2010?10. Can you name the two American League teams that did not hit a walk-off home run in

2010?(see answers on page C15)

This year we will experience four unusual dates 1/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/1/11 and

11/11/11… Now figure this… take the lasttwo digits of the year you were born plus

Weird dates…the age you’ll be this year and it will equal111.

Pretty weird, huh??


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Sports(see questions on page C13)

President’s Day(see questions on page C13)

Trivia Answers ?

1.In 2010, Dallas Braden of the Athletics and Roy Halladay of the Phillies both pitchedperfect games.

2.The last National League third baseman to win the MVP Award was Chipper Jones ofthe Braves in 1999.

3.The only rookie to score 100 runs in the majors last year was Tigers centerfielderAustin Jackson.

4.The last NBA player to average 20 points and 15 rebounds in a season was MosesMalone of the 76ers in the 1982-83 season.

5.When Brett Favre’s consecutive games played streak ended at 297 Colts QB PeytonManning became the league leader with 205 consecutive games played.

6.The American and National League Rookies of the Year in 2010 were Rangers closerNeftali Perez, and Giants catcher Buster Posey.

7.Matt Kuchar was the leading money winner on the PGA Tour in 2010.8.In 2010, the Toronto Blue Jays had 23 multiple home run games to lead the majors.9.The only Red Sox player to hit a walk-off home run in 2010 was Jed Lowrie on

August 21st against Toronto.

10.The two American League teams that did not hit a walk-off home run in 2010 werethe Oakland A’s and the Seattle Mariners.

1.The two U.S. Presidents buried in Arlington National Cemetery are William HowardTaft in 1930, and John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963.

2.The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1951.3.The first U.S. President born after the adoption of the Constitution in 1776 was Mar-

tin Van Buren who was born on December 5, 1782 in Kinderhook, New York.4.Andrew Jackson was the first U.S. President to survive an assassination attempt on

January 30, 1835 in the U.S. Capitol Building.5.The six U.S.Presidents who did not serve at one four year term are William Henry

Harrison, one month, Zachary Taylor, 16 months, James Garfield, 5 months, WarrenG. Harding 24 months, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35 months, and Gerald Ford, 29months.

Just a heads up for everyone regardingthe latest in Visa fraud. Royal Bank re-

ceived this communication about the new-est scam. This is happening in southernAlberta right now and moving.

This one is pretty slick since they pro-vide YOU with all the information, exceptthe one piece they want..

Note, the callers do not ask for your cardnumber; they already have it.

This information is worth reading. Byunderstanding how the VISA andMasterCard telephone Credit Card Scamworks, you’ll be better prepared to protectyourself. One of our employees was calledon Wednesday from ‘VISA’, and I wascalled on Thursday from ‘MasterCard.’

The scam works like this:Person calling says – ‘This is (name),

and I’m calling from the Security and FraudDepartment at VISA. My Badge number is12460, Your card has been flagged for anunusual purchase pattern, and I’m callingto verify. This would be on your VISA cardwhich was issued by (name of bank). Didyou purchase an Anti-Telemarketing Devicefor $497.99 from a marketing companybased in Arizona?’ When you say ‘No’, thecaller continues with, ‘Then we will be is-suing a credit to your account. This is a com-pany we have been watching and thecharges range from $297 to $497, just un-der the $500 purchase pattern that flags mostcards. Before your next statement, the creditwill be sent to (gives you your address), is

that correct?’ You say ‘yes’.The caller continues – ‘I will be starting

a Fraud Investigation. If you have any ques-tions, you should call the 1-800 numberlisted on the back of your card (1-800-VISA) and ask for Security. You will needto refer to this Control Number. The callerthen gives you a 6-digit number. ‘Do youneed me to read it again?’

Here’s the IMPORTANT part on howthe scam works – The caller then says, ‘Ineed to verify you are in possession of yourcard.’ He’ll ask you to ‘turn your card overand look for some numbers.’ There are 7numbers; the first 4 are part of your cardnumber, the last 3 are the Security Num-bers that verify you are the possessor of thecard. These are the numbers you sometimesuse to make Internet purchases to prove youhave the card. The caller will ask you toread the last 3 numbers to him. After youtell the caller the 3 numbers, he’ll say, ‘Thatis correct, I just needed to verify that thecard has not been lost or stolen, and thatyou still have your card. Do you have anyother questions?’

After you say no, the caller then thanksyou and states, ‘Don’t hesitate to call backif you do,’ and hangs up. You actually sayvery little, and they never ask for or tell youthe card number. But after we were calledon Wednesday, we called back. Within 20minutes to ask a question. Are we were gladwe did! The REALVISA Security Depart-ment told us it was a scam and in the last 15

minutes a new purchase of $497.99 wascharged to our card. We made a real fraudreport and closed the VISA account. VISAis reissuing us a new number. What thescammers want is the 3-digit PIN numberon the back of the card. Don’t give it to them.Instead, tell them you’ll call VISA or Mas-ter Card directly for verification of theirconversation..

The real VISA told us that they will neverask for anything on the card as they alreadyknow the information since they issued thecard! If you give the scammers your 3-digitPIN Number, you think you’re receiving acredit; however, by the time you get yourstatement you’ll see charges for purchasesyou didn’t make, and by then it’s almosttoo late and/or more difficult to actually file

a fraud report.What makes this more remarkable is that

on Thursday, I got a call from a ‘JasonRichardson of MasterCard’ with a word-for-word repeat of the VISA Scam. This time Ididn’t let him finish. I hung up! We filed apolice report, as instructed by VISA. Thepolice said they are taking several of thesereports daily! They also urged us to tell ev-erybody we know that this scam is happen-ing. I dealt with a similar situation this morn-ing, with the caller telling me that $3,097had been charged to my account for planetickets to Spain, and so on through the aboveroutine.

It appears that this Is a very active scam,and evidently quite successful.

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