A federal judge yesterday sentenced Thomas Nee, one-time president of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association, to two years probation and ordered him to pay $16,151 restitution and $2,200 in fines and fees for his participation in the overtime scandal at the BPD evidence warehouse in Hyde Park. Read more.
By adamg - 11/8/22 - 3:09 pm
The Bay State Banner reports on a contentious City Council hearing on the idea of letting civilians get part of the construction detail game, in which the police union president went over his allotted five-minute talk time and so city councilors Kenzie Bok, Kendra Lara and Ruthzee Louijeune walked out until he was done.
By adamg - 1/26/22 - 10:44 am
Live Boston reports a vice president of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association has resigned and other members are trying to recall the rest of the union's leadership over the way it quietly negotiated a Covid-19 vaccination agreement with the city, unlike the unions representing firefighters and police superior officers and detectives, which have gone to court and out on the street in protest over the upcoming vaccination mandate. Read more.
By adamg - 10/4/21 - 1:36 pm
Federal prosecutors charged today that after Thomas Nee lost re-election as president of the Boston police union, he joined a scheme at the BPD evidence warehouse in Hyde Park to put in for overtime for which he didn't work. Read more.
By adamg - 5/1/21 - 2:41 pm
Acting Mayor Kim Janey, US Rep. Ayanna Pressley and state Rep. Liz Miranda are all telling the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association to knock it off with the personal attacks on City Councilor Andrea Campbell - who is running against Janey in the fall elections - saying they are no longer going to just sit back while the union continues what Pressley called its long running racism. Read more.
By adamg - 4/29/21 - 9:59 pm
Andrea Campbell and the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association have been engaging in some Twitter unpleasantries over the past 24 hours. The union started things off last night: Read more.
By adamg - 10/20/20 - 12:44 pm
The Boston Police Patrolmen's Association today called on its members to boycott a Lower Mills taco place whenever a particular bartender is on duty because of the way she tangled with cops while protesting white supremacists in Copley Square over the weekend. Only problem: She hasn't worked there since 2018. Read more.
By adamg - 8/12/20 - 8:22 pm
WCVB reports that Patrick Rose, who retired as a Boston police officer in 2018, faces arraignment in West Roxbury Municipal Court tomorrow.
Innocent, etc.
By adamg - 6/3/20 - 5:22 pm
The Boston Police Patrolmen's Association yesterday charged Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins called all police officers murderers in her comments after Sunday night's rampages. Rollins shot back that the union statement is proof of white fragility. Read more.
By adamg - 7/9/14 - 12:54 pm
Wait, the MBTA is disciplining a cop for a racist Facebook post? Dude was just on the wrong police force.
By adamg - 7/25/12 - 3:32 pm
OK, it's a letter from Pax Centurion editor James Carnell, who can't understand why people would object to the content in the newsletter he edits, except that they must be tofu-eating "cyber terrorists" and "thugs" and that people who object to "jokes"
By adamg - 7/14/12 - 9:51 am
Clean Up BPPA did some research into the fundraiser to whom the Boston Police Patrolman's Association paid $260,000 in 2010 (which equals 77% of the revenue she brought in
By adamg - 7/12/12 - 11:59 am
The Boston Police Patrolmen's Association is acknowledging the recent protests over the content of its bimonthly newsletter, Pax Centurion.
By adamg - 7/6/12 - 10:02 am
The Globe reports, adds that while the editor himself continues to refrain from public
By adamg - 7/4/12 - 1:09 pm
The Phoenix's Chris Faraone surveys several years' worth of trash talking in the pages of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association's newsletter.
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