DRAMA. They Make $79,000 a year. Why are they protesting?
City-Billy Boston Police Union stage fake demonstrations in Republican driven protests. Threaten to protest Dem convention.
- The union's contract expired in July 2002, when rank-and-file officers were earning an average of $79,000 a year. [more]
The 1,400-member police union, without a contract for two years, wants
a 16.5 percent increase over four years. The city has offered an 11.9
percent raise over four years. [more] The NYPD has a base salary of $36,800 [more]
- The Boston patrolmen's association has been a hardcore Republican association for 20 to 30 years. The union supported Bush in 1988 and has supported various Republicans over the past 3 decades [more]
- Two recent studies found racial profiling to be a pervasive problem with the Boston Police Department. [more]
- Although, Blacks make up only 20% of the Boston population, Blacks account for 45% of all traffic citations by police. [more]
- The Boston Police Department has shot dead 28 people since 2001. [more]
- In 1995, several white police officers beat down a
Black plain clothes police officer, Michael Cox. He was severely
injured. None of the assailants has ever been disciplined or charged
criminally. [more]
- A 1991 report examining the Department found that race plays a central role in the use of excessive force. [more]
- In 1990 the Boston Police Department had responded to the killing of a white woman, Carol Stuart, by engaging in unconstitutional stops, searches, and interrogations of young black men. Carol Stuart was in fact killed by her husband, Charles Stuart, a white man, who then falsely claimed that a black man had killed his wife. [more]
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