Cops serve as chauffeurs, bellhops for visiting chiefs
Tipsy police brass visiting the Hub for a chief’s conference are being ferried home from barrooms by city cops in BPD cruisers even as Boston grapples with one of the bloodiest weekends of the year, the Herald has learned.
In addition, the BPD’s newest police academy graduates were spotted carrying luggage for police chiefs as they checked into the swanky Langham Hotel, used as a command post for the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference.
“It is a wholly inappropriate waste of taxpayers’ money and police resources,” said City Councilor Stephen J. Murphy, chairman of the Public Safety Committee. An outspoken critic of the dwindling police ranks, Murphy was furious that BPD cops were taxiing visiting law enforcement officials and not patrolling the streets of Boston.
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Rail trail plans rolling along
Work is already underway using a $30,000 state appropriation for a feasibility study for the Reedy Meadow recreational pathway running along the old spur railroad line through Wakefield and Lynnfield.
Representatives from both communities and members of the trail committees recently meet at Town Manager Thomas Butler’s office to determine what parameters the study will encompass.
Scientology group protests screenings
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology to "investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights," briefly protested Oct. 5, designated as National Mental Health Screening Day, on the sidewalk outside Riverside Community Care on Main Street.
On the day when clinics across the country offer basic written questionnaires to those who choose to walk in and potentially walk out with anti-depressant drugs, New England Director of CCHR Kevin Hall said the screening is a "hoax." The screening day is part of President Bush’s Mental Health Commission.
Though well intentioned, especially Hall says because of Michael McDermott, who in 2000 shot seven co-workers in Wakefield shortly after his anti-depressant medication was increased, the protest fell somewhat flat because Riverside has not conducted these screenings since 2001.
Wakefield police arrived about 30 minutes after the protest began and ordered Hall to roll up the banner that read "Psychiatry’s toxic drugs cause suicides and acts of violence" which was blocking the entryway to Riverside.
Substitute sues claiming he was denied work for free speech
BOSTON --A federal lawsuit filed on Tuesday claims a high school headmaster refused work to a longtime substitute teacher who spoke publicly against funding school military programs.
Jeffrey Herman, 59, had been a substitute teacher at English High School for about five years. In early March, he spoke at a Boston City Council meeting against a proposal to spend $1.2 million on a junior ROTC programs at public high schools.
Herman said Jose Duarte, the headmaster at English, put him on the "do not call" list after a neighborhood newspaper reported his comments.
(Sources: Boston Herald, Wakefield High School, Wakefield Observer, Wakefield Daily Item, Boston Globe)
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