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Summer 2008“BLAME THE

POLICE” AWARDSJust remember:

“It’s never your fault.”

Proposedabolition of

StateIncome Tax

meanslayoffs for

publicemployeesBy Jim Carnell, Pax Editor

THERE’S SIMPLY NO WAYAROUND IT: The proposed abo-

lition of Massachusetts’ state incometax, which will be on the ballot thisNovember and is binding, will, beyondany shadow of a doubt, result in lay-offs for police, fire, EMT’s, teachers,and public workers around the state.That is an absolute guarantee.

The elimination of state incometaxes was originally proposed by theformer gubernatorial candidate andhead of the lunatic libertarian party,Carla Howell. (Not surprisingly, thelegalization of marijuana, also sup-ported by Carla and her fellow kooks,is also on the Massachusetts ballot thisNovember). Unfortunately, with theassistance of legions of self-obsessedyuppies and others who simply hatecops, firefighters, teachers and all otherpublic employees, the proposal gainedenough signatures and is on the ballotfor a majority vote during the Presi-dential election this November, whichis guaranteed to attract a historic turn-


By Jim Carnell, Pax Editor

For this issue of the Pax, I started collecting recentmedia accounts where alleged “victims” and/or rela-

tives of alleged victims interjected their opinion or be-lief that whatever caused their predicament was some-how, someway the fault of the police. Suffice it to saythat my desk is overflowing with yellowing reams ofnewspaper articles…

As we are all well aware, the concept of personalresponsibility for ones’ own actions is an antiquatednotion which has been discredited since the 1960’s.During that era, the spoiled-rotten offspring of “the great-est generation,” who were sent to college by their dot-ing parents, begat the philosophy that consequences andactions which had previously been attributed to one’spersonal actions and behaviors were now to be blamedon nefarious “outside influences.” These outside influ-ences could be anything from the evil U.S. governmentto religious entities, schools, persons in positions of au-thority, the bogeyman in the closet, etc. etc. This phi-losophy soon became popular with those who desiredto absolve themselves of responsibility for their ownconduct and project the blame upon somebody or some-thing else. It is now considered the official policy of allpersons who ascribe to liberal theology, routinely vote


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by Jim Carnell, Pax EditorDear Officers,

In the current anti-tax, anti-police, anti-public employee atmosphere, thepublic clamors for “reform”. Question 1, which will eliminate the state incometax and absolutely result in police layoffs, will appear on the November ballot.WRKO’s Howie Carr, the Globe’s Scott Lehigh, the Herald’s Rachelle Cohen,Fox 25’s “Virgin Boy” and the Beacon Hill Institute’s David Tuerck all de-mand an end to police details. The public, if given the opportunity, would abso-lutely reduce your pay and benefits. It’s almost like the whole world’s againstus, so why bother fighting?

Let’s take a lesson from Howie Carr’s “dreaded private sector,” you know,the same private sector that steals millions of dollars in public money throughMedicaid fraud, construction fraud, tax cheating, etc. etc. Let’s start chargingfor all police services, and start making real money! Here’s a prospective pricelist we can hand out to people requesting police services:

POLICE SERVICES PRICE LISTIf we can’t beat them, join them…

and here’s what it costs…

Dear Citizen,Police response to actual, in-

progress felonies made to 911 will re-main free of charge. However, in or-der to properly and fairly assess costs,all other police services will now in-cur a fee. Charges will be assessed tothe caller’s cellular phone, business orhome telephone bill. However, cruis-

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Thomas J. Nee, Executive DirectorRonald MacGillivray, Vice President

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BOARD OF EDITORSJames Carnell, Managing Editor

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Samuel Berte

AREA EMichael Harrington • Paul Nee

Lawrence CalderoneGerald Rautenberg • Steve KelleyArthur McCarthy • Angel FigueroaChris Morgan • Richard Jordan

AREA FIDENT. UNIT – John Fitzgerald

DRUG UNIT – Paul QuinnYVSF – Vincent Stephens

M.O.P.Richie Kelley

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RADIO SHOP / P.D.S.John Kundy

P.D.S. – Karen VanDyke

TURRETJohn Conway • Dave Stewart

Curtis Carroll

ACADEMY / RANGEEVIDENCE MANAGEMENT

Paul Downey

HARBORJeff Tobin

E.S.U.Hector Cabrera • Francis Deary

HEADQUARTERS

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GRIEVANCEBob Butler • Jim Carnell • Brian ReaneyMike Leary • Tom Pratt • Dave Fitzgerald

BUILDINGTom Nee

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LEGISLATIVEJim Barry

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As the economy continues to go south,more and more people are worried

about losing their jobs, their homes, theirpensions. The price of gas is still hoveringaround four bucks a gallon and foreclosuresare seemingly outpacing the war spending.The silence from Washington has been deaf-ening, the voting public is sick and tired withthe lack of answers from their elected lead-ers. They’re sick and tired of governmentfees and taxes, hell aren’t we all. They aresick and tired of broken promises and theyare looking for answers, some say they arelooking for someone to blame. The BPPAleadership has and continues to be con-cerned with the current trends in theeconomy and believes that it could have asignificant impact on the votingpublic’s mindset and thought pro-cess in November.

Last month, I issued a similarwarning and as a result a numberof discussions have taken placebetween our members. This is avery important communicationand it is absolutely “NOT” thelast time you will hear me tell thisstory between now and Novem-ber 4th. So to our membership Imust ask that the conversationcontinue.

On the November ballot, ev-ery citizen in the Commonwealthwill be asked to vote on a ballotproposal that comes from the Coa-lition for Small Government, ledby one-time Libertarian Party can-didate for Massachusetts Gover-nor, Carla Howell. The proposedballot question, if successful,would phase out the state incometax in Massachusetts by cutting itfrom its current 5.3 percent to 2.65percent in 2009 and subsequentlyeliminate the income tax all to-gether in the year 2010. A similarinitiative was advanced during theelection period in 2002. In thepost-9/11 era, the country was ina similar situation, the economy was awreck and we were then, as now, in the gripsof a recession. Several months earlier wehad initiated a military campaign in Af-ghanistan and Iraq, there was a great senseof American pride, of trust and confidencein our government that we were on the righttrack and we would get through that verydifficult time period. Seemingly that periodof trust and confidence is long behind us.During the campaign of 2002, the identicalquestion proposed in 2008 received little orno attention in the media, yet it received 45percent of the vote. Recently, the Wall StreetJournal, CNN and many other major me-dia outlets have shown interest in the ballotquestion and quite honestly are showingsigns of support for the initiative. CarlaHowell and the other proponents have be-gun promising the taxpayers of Massachu-setts an average savings of $3,600.00 per

The BPPA leadership has andcontinues to be concernedwith the current trends in theeconomy and believes that itcould have a significantimpact on the voting public’smindset and thought processin November. Last month Iissued a similar warning andas a result a number ofdiscussions have taken placebetween our members. Thisis a very important communi-cation and it is absolutely“NOT” the last time you willhear me tell this storybetween now and November4th. So to our membershipI must ask that theconversation continue.

year if they vote to repeal the income tax.They promise that they will shrink the stategovernment and Massachusetts will be allthe better for it. I say if they are successfulwe as a profession will be part of the shrink-age. This proposal is so bad that even Bar-bara Anderson is reluctant to support it andyet it is gaining momentum.

Let me share with you some facts. If thisproposal were successful it would requirethe Commonwealth of Massachusetts tooperate with the same type of budget signedinto law in 1995 (about 17 plus billion dol-lars). Could you pay your bills or do yourbusiness if you were to lose 40 percent of

your income? Could you pay your bills orexperience the same quality of life you cur-rently enjoy with the same budget you hadin 1995. Of course you couldn’t. Let megive you a visual of what this tax rollbackmight look like. First of all 14 BILLIONdollars will immediately disappear from thestate revenues. Sam Huff, a private policyconsultant, who studies the state budget,recently reported that if every state workerin the Commonwealth of Massachusettswere laid off immediately the state wouldrealize 5 billion dollar annual savings. Thatbeing said, what do you think will happennext? Where do you think they will look tofind the other 9 billion dollars? Quinn Bill,pensions, health care, paid details. If youown a home how much do you think yourreal estate taxes will be? I’ll tell you rightnow the increase will border cause for a


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Message from the Vice President: Ronald MacGillivray

Grievances and disciplineThe term “grievance,” when talking

about our workplace, relates to any dis-pute concerning the interpretation, applica-tion or enforcement of our Collective Bar-gaining Agreement. Many grievances arediscussed at length… some are settled atthe District level with the Captain or Com-

mander… some have more merit than oth-ers… and of late some involve officers thatare offered discipline that redefines the word“extreme.” There is a section of the CBAthat covers the concept of “just cause” dis-cipline which seems to be missing from theDepartment’s edition, especially the partabout the appropriateness of the penalty.The Department’s rendering would give onethe impression that it reads… “just cause Isay so.”

The concept of “Progressive Discipline”works well at the district level where fairand reasonable decision-makers prevail, re-alizing that accepted discipline is the mosteffective discipline. There tends to be a bet-ter understanding of the workplace at thislevel for obvious reasons. There is also agood understanding of recommended dis-cipline at the secondary levels at the Bu-reau of Internal Investigations. The prob-lem is that most of the evenhanded and lev-elheaded recommendations for disciplinethat come out of the internal investigationsare overturned at the higher levels.

In some cases, discipline has turned intoa life-altering sentence… where an officer’sfamily is ruined. Loss of health insuranceoccurs at around 30-plus days with the threatof mortgage payments going unpaid shortlythereafter. Abusive discipline can simply bedescribed as discipline that is destructive notonly to the individual but to the Departmentwith the residual after-effects. That is notto say that reasoned discipline excludes ter-mination if justified… but over-the-top,“grieve it” discipline has become the rule.The “just cause” discipline section of our con-tract is intended to keep predisposed partiality(which has become common in the disciplin-ing of our members) out of the process.

Recent cases that come to mind have beenterminations that have been reversed by an ar-bitrator… decisions that were well written andused good judgment. The individuals were de-serving of discipline but not terminal, careerending sentences. In these cases, officers werenot given an option, but had they been ten-dered even an unreasonable offer, they would

In some cases, discipline has turned into a life altering sentence…where an officer’s family is ruined. Loss of health insurance occursat around 30-plus days with the threat of mortgage paymentsgoing unpaid shortly thereafter. Abusive discipline can simply bedescribed as discipline that is destructive, not only to the individualbut to the Department with the residual after effects. That is notto say that reasoned discipline excludes termination if justified…but over-the-top, “grieve it” discipline has become the rule.

more than likely have accepted it as many of-ficers, with lesser charges pending, have beenforced to do of late.

The BPPA and the City share a panel ofarbitrators who I think provide the best com-bination of smarts and common sense, aswell as years of experience, that are avail-

able. You win some and you lose somebased on an unbiased determination of thefacts… except if you’re the Department indiscipline cases where the imposition of dis-cipline can not be questioned… result, fur-ther litigation at the Superior Court and/orthe Appellate Court.

You Make the Call…Accept or Fight it

Let’s deal with a fictional case: Internalcharges could include any combination ofConduct, Neglect of Duty, UnreasonableJudgment, Truthfulness or Conformance toLaws:

The offer… 18 months… counter of-fered down to 9 months in abeyance with 9months to serve with additional noose tight-ening language from the Department… theTruthfulness charge dropped.

If not accepted: Department seekingtermination (guaranteed to be rubber-stamped at the Department hearing, plus 1-

1/2 to 2 years waiting for case to be heard,though the City has been accommodatingin pushing discipline cases.)

Background: Officer has eight yearson, first time offender (no prior disci-pline)… two BPPA cases on point regard-ing past discipline include: 10 days froman arbitrated case (five years ago) and 7-day settlement agreement under a differ-ent Commissioner (seven years ago).

With termination being the backdrop…there is no choice. This is nothing short of ademand to comply with the counter offer…which is calculatingly malicious. The

Department’s offering of “termination”forces any officer to accept whatever thecounter offer is.

Discipline will no doubt continue to beunbalanced, simply because it is allowed at

the highestlevel, but whena r b i t r a t o r spoint out theDepartment’sextreme short-sightedness incountermand-ing their find-ings (i.e. termi-nation reversedto 1 day or not i m e ) … i t ’ stime to take a

hard look at the victims of such careless de-cision making and not let it happen again.

FMLAThe Department of Labor will be releas-

ing a draft outline summarizing proposedchanges to the Family Medical Leave Actand a more definitive understanding giventhe extent of litigation since the implemen-tation back in 1995. The overall modifica-tions being sought by the current adminis-tration are said to be favorable to the em-ployer. One of the more relevant changesaffecting our membership being sought bythe employers was “intermittent leave.” Em-ployers would like to lengthen the amountof time that employees may request underthe FMLA (i.e. eight hours)… currentlyemployees may take the shortest leave es-tablished under an employers timekeepingsystem… for sake of argument – one hour.There is a lot of pushback concerning thischange and to keep it as is.

There were proposed rules concerningmilitary personnel and their families. Aneligible employee can take up to 26 weeksof leave in a 12 month period providing carefor a spouse, child, parent or next of kinwho is a service member who suffered aserious illness or injury incurred during ac-tive duty in the Armed Forces. In addition,a 12 week leave for “any qualifying exi-gency” that arises from any parent’s,spouse’s, child’s active duty in the ArmedForces, including call to duty. Informationprovided by Public Safety Labor Relationsregarding proposed legislation.

It’s almostSept. 11th

again(Or have you, too,

forgotten?”)



IT’S ALMOST SEPTEMBER 11TH

AGAIN. You remember September11th, don’t you? Or don’t you want to?

Yeah, it’s always convenient to for-get, to pretend like it didn’t happen. Or,like millions of stupid Americans whoconsider themselves liberals, to believethat somehow, someway… it must havebeen our fault. Yeah, that’s right, if onlywe were nicer to the peace-loving Ar-abs, if only we didn’t support Israel, ifonly we were more tolerant and under-standing, then the practitioners of thereligion of love and peace would like us,right?

What unadulterated crap. The simplefact is that those who attacked us on Sep-tember 11th are still out there, by the hun-

dreds of millions. And we could kiss theirbehinds and wipe the bottom of their feetand they would still want to kill us. Un-derstand that? Do you get it? They wantto kill us because we are Americans andwe don’t accept their warped, demented,sick theology that would return us to thetwelfth century. They hate Christians,they hate Jews, they hate Hindus, Bud-dhists and all other religions anywhere.They hate us because they are losers andbecause they are intensely jealous, know-ing that the bonds of their own twisted reli-gious beliefs are what keeps them wherethey are- and where they belong. There issomething very basically wrong with apeople who still shun toilet paper and con-sider it an example of Western excess.

I always get a kick out of those phonymorons who attend the Boston Commonanti-war protests. They have this boiler-plate chant that somehow manages towrap their anti-war sentiments around,together and with issues like racism, sex-ism, homophobia, and all other perceivedsocial ills attributed to the United Statesof America. The thought occurred to me:if these idiots were really against racism,

Yeah, it’s alwaysconvenient to forget,to pretend like itdidn’t happen. Or, likemillions of stupidAmericans whoconsider themselvesliberals, to believe thatsomehow, someway…it must have beenour fault.

Discipline will no doubt continue to be unbalanced,simply because it is allowed at the highest level, butwhen arbitrators point out the Department’s extremeshortsightedness in countermanding their findings(i.e. termination reversed to 1 day or no time)… it’stime to take hard look at the victims of such carelessdecision making and not let it happen again.


Treasury Notes: Thomas Pratt, BPPA Treasurer

Summer is the time for golf, baseball andlooking ahead to stupid referendums in the fallAs always I start with a customary I hope

I find everyone doing well and enjoy-ing the summer months with family andfriends. The first order of business that Iwould to do is thank all of our members,friends and sponsors who played and con-tributed to the success of theUnion’s Golf Outing at the FranklinPark Golf Course on July 18, 2008.I hope everyone enjoyed the roundof golf, great food and the ton ofraffle prizes. The weather was defi-nitely on our side, sunny, clear andnot too muggy. Once again, I wasthe albatross in my foursome. Iapologize to John Ford, he was ex-pecting bigger and better thingsfrom me this year, but I was justhappy to get the ball off the tees.Big congratulations to the foursomeof Stanton, Conley, Troy andHussein who not only came in firstplace in the golf but DetectiveTimmy Stanton, C-11 also wonfirst place in the first annual BPPA hot dogeating contest with a tremendous effort often quarter-pound weenies without havingto come up for air once. Great job, Tim. Itwas also nice to see our union brothers fromboth the Providence Police Union and theNewYork Police Benevolent Associationtravel to Boston for this event. It is a signof police union solidarity. My lastthoughts on this topic would be a thankyou to Bob and Andy Ferguson of SkiMarket and Matt Griffin of Costello’sTavern who helped me out with this year’sevent and without hesitation all said yesand went out of their way to accommo-date my schedule.

My next order of business are mythoughts on the income tax roll-back votecoming up this fall. It is my opinion that ifthis passes it will not be a good thing forpublic safety unions and public employeesin general. The thought of more money in

your paycheck is a good thing, who doesnot like more money? What we as publicemployees must realize, is that we are paidby tax dollars and the elimination of thissource of income for the Commonwealthof Massachusetts would turn out to be abouta 14 billion dollar deficit in the state’s bud-get. Think of other states that do not havean income tax and see how they generaterevenue: i.e. higher property taxes, mealtaxes, usage fees and when it comes time torenew a license or permit those prices haveskyrocketed also, the State will always gettheir money. Do not forget that the peoplewho sponsor these initiatives are usuallytransplants from other states or persons in

ivory towers who employ outside compa-nies to solicit names to get these referen-dums on the ballot. These groups do notunderstand the complexities behind localaid and other programs that the state spon-sors to the cities and towns around the Com-

monwealth. Once again, I like money, butnot at the expense of my job or at the ex-pense of programs for special needs chil-dren or elderly services. All I ask of you asa member of the BPPA, is research the ref-erendum and think of the impact it will haveon your family and your livelihood. Don’tget caught up in the short-term benefits.Look to the future, your retirement and fu-ture contract negotiations and the possibil-ity of layoffs. The general public does notfully understand the impact it will have onservices such as police, fire, and ambulance.It is up to you to educate these people onthe harsh reality of basic essential servicesbeing slashed.

On a lighter note, I would like to say jobwell done to our Secretary Jay Broderickon organizing the day of baseball at theBrockton Rox for our members, family andfriends. The highlight of the day was notreally the baseball but the sumo wrestling.Chris Morgan and Daryle Dwan put onsumo suits and rolled around first-base thatlooked like two turtles on their backs.Morgie with the height and Weight advan-tage and Daryle with a very low center ofgravity advantage, making this event veryequal on the skills level. It turned out to bea very sweaty draw.

One last order of business on July 31,2008, the Telephone workers had a pre-strike rally at 185 Franklin Street, Post Of-fice Square. I would just like to thank someof our members who assisted me in a stand-out in a sign of solidarity with our brothersand sisters from Local 2222 and 2223 anda host of other unions and organization. Bigthanks to Mike Brown, Dan Donahue,Rich Jenetti, Jason Ezekiel, Eddie Nolan,Brian Reaney, and Mike Leary, and lastbut not least, Jimmy Carnell, who was theCaptain of our mobile strike team. Do notforget that the telephone workers stood tallwith us down at the Fleet Center before theDemocratic National Convention.

In closing, I would just like to say onceagain, enjoy the summer! Take time out tobe with your family and friends. Take a trip,go to the beach and unwind, look aroundand appreciate what you have. Remember,keep your guard up and watch each other’sbacks and if I have done something you arenot happy with, call me on it. Don’t let itfester. I work for you, so it is your job tokeep me honest.

Editor’s Opinion/Analysis:

Cop-haters declare war on police pay, benefitsStorm clouds gathering on fall horizon…


YEAH, I KNOW, I’VE HEARD IT BEFORE… “Don’t listen to him, he’s nothingbut a pessimist, he always sees the glass half-empty instead of half-full,” yadda,

yadda, yadda. Problem is, in the current political environment, I just might be (unfortu-nately) right…

A combination of factors is gellingtogether for the upcoming elections thisfall, and there’s nothing bright and posi-tive to report. By the time this article ispublished in the August ’08 Pax Centu-rion, Governor Deval Patrick will havereleased his new regulations concern-ing the use of police details vs. civilianflaggers on state road projects, whichmay not (hopefully) have much of aninitial impact on how Boston currentlyuses details. Certainly, these new regulations will have a negative impact on the Massa-chusetts State Police and on cities and towns that do not currently have ordinances, by-laws and/or existing collective bargaining agreements in place. For example, we maysee, in the near future, civilian flagmen being used on State roads in Boston such asMorrissey Blvd. or the portion of Columbia Road in Dorchester which is under state

control. The eternal optimists among us say “never;” I say “Wait and see….”The facts simply don’t matter in this media-generated controversy about police de-

tails. It’s not about “cost savings” – that has nothing to do with it. And it’s not aboutthem being “concerned for how tired the officers must be doing details”… (they don’t

give a damn about your health). It’sabout hatred for police officers mak-ing money, pure and simple. Theysimply hate the fact that a blue-col-lar, working-class cop has the abilityto make more money than a 25-yearold piss-ant journalist who just gradu-ated from B.U. or Columbia and isnow tenuously employed in the de-clining newspaper business. In theirminds, there is a pre-determinedamount of money that the average

police officer should be allowed to earn, and it’s always below whatever they make…Think of the people who hate us. Think of the likes of the Globe’s Scott Lehigh or

the Herald’s Rachelle Cohen. Think of Suffolk University’s Beacon Hill Institute di-rector David Tuerck, a man who literally oozes hatred and contempt for police officers


The facts simply don’t matter in this media-generatedcontroversy about police details. It’s not about “costsavings” – that has nothing to do with it. And it’snot about them being “concerned for how tired theofficers must be doing details”… (they don’t give adamn about your health). It’s about hatred for policeofficers making money,pure and simple.

The income tax roll-back vote coming up this fall will notbe a good thing for public safety unions and public em-ployees in general. The thought of more money in yourpaycheck is a good thing, who doesn’t like more money?What we as public employees must realize is that we on awhole are paid by tax dollars. The elimination of thissource of income for the Commonwealth of Massachu-setts would turn out to be about a 14 billion dollar deficitin the state budget. Think of other states that do nothave an income tax and see how they generaterevenue… other taxes and fees have skyrocketed.The state will always get their money.


Secretary Spread: Jay Broderick, BPPA Secretary

Speaker DeMasi blocks Seaportjurisdiction legislation


SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE SEENthe column by Globe columnist and

resident cop-hater Scott Lehigh onWednesday, July 2nd. (Others may nothave noticed it, due to the fact that theGlobe’s cop-hating editorial board wasbusy on that same day blaming policefor the death of David Woodman dur-ing the so-called post-Celtics’ victory“celebrations.”) Lehigh’s smarmy col-

umn, “Making (no) sense of police de-tails,” was standard drivel for aCharlestown urban-professional typewho loves nothing more than to lookdown his nose at police officers whomhe considers to be inferior. It is, how-ever, important to understand the hate-ful, warped view of the police that Scottand legions of his like-minded Boston-area yuppies hold, especially in the cur-rent political atmosphere and with Ques-tion 1 (the binding elimination of thestate income tax) looming this Novem-ber on the ballot.

We’ve all encountered the ScottLehighs of the world, haven’t we?They’re the demanding, obnoxious,overbearing “professionals” who now(unfortunately) occupy so much of thiscity. They’re the ones who drive theBMWs and the Volvos with the “Cel-ebrate Diversity” and “Kerry/Edwards”bumper stickers sipping their Starbuckslatté as they pass you by with that lookof utter disdain on their face. They’re theones who “work” (so to speak) in theircomfortable offices behind the safety ofa computer and spend their time robbingpeople with the punch of a keyboard orthe stroke of a pen and then have the gallto criticize blue-collar workers for hav-ing a cup of coffee or taking a break.We’ve all met them, haven’t we?

In his column, Scott smarmily musesover the fact that he passed by a

Meet

columnistScott Lehigh(When you’ll see him –

and when youwon’t see him…)

Boston Globe


Lehigh’s smarmycolumn, “Making (no)sense of police details,”was standard drivel fora Charlestown urban-professional type wholoves nothing morethan to look down hisnose at police officerswhom he considers tobe inferior.

The Massachusetts Legislature has endedformal sessions for the year and it’s

probably a good time to comment on whathappened, or didn’t happen, relative to theinterests of the BPPA and its members.

A major piece of legislation that theBPPA was pushing was our attempt to cre-ate concurrent ju-risdiction in theSeaport area. TheBPPA, with Leg-islative AgentJim Barry as thepoint man, work-ed tirelessly toget this legisla-tion passed. Wewere continuallyassured that thelegislation wouldbe advanced. Weweren’t lookingfor a bag job. Wejust wanted to beable to debate themerits of our ar-guments. Thesimple argument that Boston Police Offic-ers should have jurisdiction on property lo-cated within the City of Boston. Prettysimple right? Mayor Tom Menino sup-ported the legislation and we were confi-dent that we had the support of the manymembers of the legislature we have con-tinually supported throughout the years.But in the end the bill didn’t come out for avote because of one person…Speaker of theHouse Sal DiMasi.

Ok, that’s one issue and the Legislaturehas many issues to deal with one may say.How about our EMS Division? The BPPA/EMS Division negotiates a contract thatcalls for their members to be afforded theopportunity to join Group 4 (Public Safety)of the State Retirement System, whichwould grant them the same retirement ben-efits that are enjoyed, by Police Officers,Corrections Officers, and Firefighters.These guys gave up substantial pay in-creases to get into the system. The Mayorand the City supported the legislation andit doesn’t even come out for a vote? That iscomplete nonsense. Makes you wonderabout whom else was trying to get into thesystem.

So where does that leave the BPPA?Historically, the BPPA has been one ofthe bigger spenders in the Commonwealthof Massachusetts, as far as political con-tributions to politicians. Do we continueto contribute to elected officials who ei-ther can’t or won’t advance our interestsor do we shut of the faucet? It’s a diffi-cult question but it’s one that needs to beaddressed.

Those who are opposed to paid detailsadvance their issue a little more each year.If you read the Globe and the Herald, they

will rail about how the “powerful” policeunions have blocked reform and howelected officials are afraid of the policeunions. Police unions, or any union for thatmatter, are powerful because of the partici-pation and support of the membership. Ifwe, as a collective group, continue to fail to

go to the polls, whether it’s local or national,and cast a vote we will be sending them amessage that we really don’t care. Remem-ber, the BPPA is restricted as to how muchwe can give to an elected official. But we’renot restricted in putting a bumper stickeron our cars or a house sign on our lawn.The one thing that I don’t doubt is that,over the years, these politicians have re-alized that too many of our members don’ttake the time to vote so in reality, theyfeel that we are not a big enough threat tothem.

On a different note, I was reading theBoston Police Rules and Regulations theother day when I happened to get to the partabout discipline. I read with great interestabout how discipline was not designed tobe punitive but is meant to serve as a train-ing aid. I read a little more about how com-plaints and allegations were to be investi-gated in a timely fashion. After readingthose two pieces, I turned the book over,and took a look at the cover just to makesure that I was reading the Boston PoliceRules and Regulations. I was, I think? Myconfusion came from the way the Rules readand how they are actually applied. When Ihear about how the department offers a year-long suspension to an officer who was in-volved in a very minor off duty incident (anincident that IAD didn’t even interview awitness that had an account of the story that,in my opinion, completely exonerated theofficer), I wonder what the hell is going on.The length of suspensions relative to theinfractions that are alleged is completely outof whack. A clear sign of the problem shouldbe the recent example of the departmentterminating an officer only to have an arbi-

trator reverse the termination and replace itwith a one-day suspension. ONE DAY.Come on now! That’s a pretty big differ-ence. But the department knows that manymembers, when offered a suspension, can-not afford to risk getting more time off andmany just accept it. The BPPA can only help

the member make an in-formed decision. Believeme when I tell you that theBPPA looks forward tothe chance to take one ofthese cases forward but atthe end of the day, themember has to make adecision that is best fortheir family.

The BPPA is often toldthat the decision came outof Legal. Well, nowhere inthe Rules concerning theadministration of disci-pline, do I see the wordLegal Advisor. I only seeBureau Chiefs, IAD In-vestigators, and the Com-missioner. You know, only

sworn Police Officers. Maybe someone willtake a second, read the Rules, and remem-ber that! Only then will discipline accom-plish for what it was designed.Notes:• There were no By-Law Proposals sub-

mitted to me, so obviously there won’tbe any votes on new By-Laws or By-Law changes.

There will be nominations, and ifneeded, elections for all Shift Represen-tative positions as well as for the fourleadership positions. When the dates forthese nominations and/or elections arefinalized, I will be sure to get that infor-mation out to the membership.

• The BPPA has secured passes for theMuseum of Science. Because of the an-ticipated demand for these passes therewill be a limit of two per member so thateveryone has a chance to enjoy them. Westill have passes to Zoo New England,the Roger Williams Zoo, and the Bos-ton Children’s Museum. We are currentlyout of Aquarium passes but we hope tohave more by the start of the school year.The Liberty Mutual Discount Program,which entitles our members to an 8%discount on the auto insurance and up toa 10% discount on the homeowners in-surance, is also available to all our mem-bers.

• Anyone who is interested in receivinginformation concerning the BPPA byway of email, please email me [email protected] and I will add youto the email list.Enjoy the rest the rest of your summer

and stay safe.

We were continually assured that the legislationwould be advanced. We weren’t looking for a bagjob. We just wanted to be able to debate themerits of our arguments. The simple argumentthat Boston Police Officers should have jurisdictionon property located within the City of Boston.Pretty simple right? Mayor Tom Meninosupported the legislation and we were confidentthat we had the support of the many members ofthe legislature we have continually supportedthroughout the years. But in the end the billdidn’t come out for a vote because of oneperson…Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi.


Steve Roe and Natasha Abasciano(accepting the award for herhusband Joe, who is servingoverseas).

Award recipientTamara Finley

with her daughters.

Recipients Adam Fornashand Mark Hennessey.

Recipients Ed Boylan, Clay Morris and Jim LaCroix.

BPPA President Tom Nee,award recipient

Ken Autio, andBPPA Secretary

Jay Broderick.

Members of the Crime Scene Unit accept an award on behalf of their unit.

Award recipients Eamon Geoghegan, Adam Mammone andChris Adams with BPPA Secretary Jay Broderick.

RecipientsPatBrowningandChris Holt.

BPPA2008SPRINGAWARDWINNERSBPPA2008SPRINGAWARDWINNERS

On June 27th, The BPPAhonored over 30 of our membersfor their extraordinary work andbravery while in the performanceof their duties. The BPPA AwardsLuncheon is held twice a year.Every award recipient wasnominated for recognition by afellow Police Officer.


Recipients Dan Donahue, Garvin McHale, Claire Duffy,Henry Doherty, Jeff McLean and Marty Harrison.

A7 Shift Rep.Mike LearywithrecipientsScott McIssacand JoeDigirolamo.

RecipientsOtis

Harewoodand

Mike Mylettwith MOPShift Rep.

ChrisBroderick.

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Claire Duffy andKristin Donahue.

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It’s almost Sept. 11 again(continued from page A3)

sexism, homophobia and religious bigotry,then …shouldn’t they be protesting againstthe same people who slammed the airplanesinto the WTC and the Pentagon on Septem-ber 11th, 2001? Are there any bigger sex-ists, racists and bigots than those who be-lieve in the same warped form of allegedreligion as Osama and Co.?

This September 11th, like all previous,I’ll be searching the media for a recountingof that terrible day. I think it’s important forall Americans to watch again and again astheir fellow countrymen and women leapedto their deaths, guilty only of going to workto make a living. I’ll be remembering the

firefighters, the police officers, the EMT’sand all others who died that day trying tohelp people they never met before. And I’llbe remembering the Palestinian savageswho cheered and jumped for joy as the tow-ers fell. And I’ll remember the animals whoare still out there this very day, plotting tokill more Americans and innocent peopleeverywhere while hiding behind the um-brella of religion.

You can do what you want on Septem-ber 11th; our great country affords you thatluxury. But some of us choose to remem-ber and never forget.

ers will soon be capable of accepting VISA,Mastercard and Discover cards (No Ameri-can Express, please). The following is asample of proposed charges:

Car accidents: Police response to so-called “paper swaps” (minor, non-injury caraccidents) will incur a $100. charge. If in-juries are involved and a police report isrequired for insurance purposes, the costwill be $250.00 to compensate the policefor the additional time. If police are requiredto call tow-trucks, a $50.00 surcharge percar will be assessed, not including the costof the actual tow. Transport to hospitals willbegin at $800.00 per injury, payable imme-diately by credit card to Boston EMS.

Alarms: Car alarm calls will incur a$100.00 response fee. House alarms cost$200.00. Business alarms will cost $250.00.Repeat calls (3 in 5 years) to faulty alarms(99% of all alarm calls) will incur an addi-tional $100.00 surcharge per response.

Shoplifting/Non-felony arrests: Re-quests from businesses to arrest shoplifterswill incur a minimum booking fee of$250.00 per prisoner, plus a $100.00 report-writing fee if the store requesting said ser-vices does not employ a special officer ca-pable of writing said report. Housing of pris-oners for more than 1 hour will incur a$300.00 storage/hotel charge, plus addi-tional costs to compensate the city for hav-ing to assign an officer to watch and checkthe prisoner every 15 minutes. Long-week-end stays will pay a flat fee of $1000.00,plus additional costs for prisoner meals andmedical services.

Domestic Disputes: Service of restrain-ing orders will cost $100.00 for the initialvisit. If repeat enforcement action is re-quired, the party requesting enforcement ofthe order will be assessed an additional feeof $75.00 per call, plus costs. (This fee maybe recovered through the courts and re-as-sessed to the offender, but that is the respon-sibility of the person named on the courtorder). If an arrest is required, see above:“Non-felony arrests”. Report writing costsfor introduction before the courts will re-main at the standard $100.00 per page. Sur-rogate-parent, child-counseling charges are$25.00 per 15 minutes of the officer’s time,with a cap of $75.00 per hour.

Removal of vagrants/bums: Bum re-moval on private property is $50.00 perbum. No more than four (4) bums will beremoved by the police wagon at any onetime, due to liability concerns. Private busi-nesses will be responsible for the holdingand safeguarding of the bum’s property untilthe bum’s return. Claims of injury or lossof half-gallon jugs of Mohawk Vodka orListerine by individual bums are the soleresponsibility of the business requesting thebum removal.

Locksmith services: Car lockouts willbe assessed a fee of $100.00 per call. Houselockouts require a deposit of $150.00. Dam-ages incurred to any locks during attemptsto gain entry are the sole responsibility ofthe car/home owner.

Directions: Directions requested in-per-son of an officer will cost $10.00. Direc-tions requested via phone will incur an ad-ditional fee of $2.50 per call in order to helppay the city’s phone bill.

Gang removal: Requests to removeunruly gangs will incur a fee of $50.00 percall. Gangs must be of standard size (1-10teenagers). Gangs composed of violent fel-ons such as MS-13 will incur additionalfees, depending on the size of the gang andthe level of difficulty in removing.

Detail services: The current prevailingwage rate for a flagman is $37.50 per hour.Since a police officer is highly trained andcomes equipped with gun, radio and otherequipment, the hourly fee for a police of-ficer will be $72.35, with an 8-hour mini-mum required. The vendor must also paythe officer’s health insurance, liability in-surance and indemnification costs. Special,additional rates are in effect for nights,weekends and holidays. Injuries incurredwhile in the performance of the officer’sduty will be paid by the vendor.

Additional services: Services requiringthe use of a marked cruiser will incur a fuelfee which will be assessed at the prevailingrate per gallon of gas, plus mileage, plus avehicle maintenance fee surcharge. Feesmay also be incurred for the response ofspecialty units such as motorcycle units orrequired/requested detective services. Fin-gerprinting and license fees will also in-crease to $100.00 per person.

Police Services Price List(continued from page A1)


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for Democrats, or live in privileged, wealthy,yuppie-dominated neighborhoods. (Whichis sort of redundant, I know, but…)

Among the easiest of all professions toblame for one’s negative conduct are thepolice. One would not be in trouble, afterall, if it were not for the police catchingthem, ergo, the police are ultimately respon-sible for the negative conduct of the com-plaining individual. Add in the fact that it ispart and parcel of basic liberal theology thatthe police are assumed to:

1.) have nothing better to do, and2.) are probably engaging in some form

of profiling or other racist, sexist, (fill-in-the-blank-here) behavior and – Voila! –blame and responsibility for individual ac-tions are easily and conveniently transferredto the police.

Therefore, let us visit just a few recentexamples of this phenomenon and issue theSummer, 2008 “BLAME THE POLICE”Awards to the following winners…

� � � � �JUNE 2008 “BLAME THE PO-

LICE” AWARD: Boston Herald, June18th, 2008, p.5, “Shot Baby critical ascop’s probe hits wall.” In this incident, a6-month-old baby, Alianna Peguero, wasbeing held by her gang-banger, scumbag fa-ther, Alinson Peguero (how strange: samelast name?) inside a (federally subsidized?)apartment at 70 Fairlawn Avenue inMattapan. Other scumbag gang membersshot through a sliding glass door in an at-tempt to hit the scumbag father, who wasin fact shot in the hand but poor babyAlianna was hit in the stomach. Because aresponding ambulance was delayed, thepolice decided to transport the critically-wounded baby to the hospital in a cruiser,rather than wait precious minutes for theambulance. According to the Herald’s ac-count: “Family members criticized officersfor taking the tiny infant, who was turningpurple, to Carney Hospital, about threemiles away. “Why would they go there? Shecould have died,” said Indira Castillo,Alinson Peguero’s former stepdaughter.(Ahhh – “former stepdaughter”, now I seethe close family dynamics at play here….)Castillo went on… “…she believes theshooting is related to the killing of her half-brother (duly-noted as per the above) AlanaPeguero, who was shot to death while work-ing at his family’s convenience store lastyear. She lashed out at police for failing tomake an arrest in that case. “I told themtwo months ago that something was goingto happen, and now here’s proof,”Castillosaid. But according to BPD spokeswomanElaine Driscoll, in regards to the baby’sshooting, “We’re receiving limited coopera-tion from the baby’s family.”

Yes, Ms. Castillo, the, June 2008 BPPA“BLAME THE POLICE” Award goes toyou and your scumbag family. Not only areyou worthless mendicants living in subsi-dized housing and (no doubt) collecting abounty of various checks from the taxpay-ers in one form or another, but, despite thefact that your scumbag, gang-banger fam-ily members won’t cooperate with the po-

lice, you’ve managed to “BLAME THEPOLICE” for the shooting which was soclearly the fault of your own worthless fam-ily members! Congratulations, IndiraCastillo and the Peguero family….

� � � � �JULY, 2008 “BLAME THE PO-

LICE” AWARD: And the co-winnersare… Boston Globe columnists YvonneAbraham (Wednesday, July 2 – “Jumpingto conclusions”) and Kevin Cullen (Mon-day, July 21 – “Asking for trouble”). Thesetwo residents of the Ivory Towers onMorrissey Boulevard both managed to com-pose columns which, of course, “BLAMEDTHE POLICE” for the tragic death of DavidWoodman during the so-called “celebra-tions” following the Celtics’ victory overthe Lakers. After being ordered – and re-fusing – to dispose of the beer which hewas drinking in front of the police,Woodman, 22, deciding to have the policechase him and then resisted arrest, grabbingonto a fence, requiring several officers toforcibly remove him. Woodman had a well-documented, pre-existing heart condition(the cops, of course, had no prior knowl-edge of this, but it’s always assumed we’resupposed to know everything…). Now, I’mnot a doctor or a detective, but I’m going togo way out on limb here and say that drink-ing alcohol, partying, having the policechase you and then resisting arrest – whilehaving a pre-existing heart condition – isprobably not conducive to one’s cardiachealth.

But in her column, filled with biting, lib-eral-tinged sarcasm flavored with huge dol-lops of intense hatred for police, Abrahammanages to do what the title of her owncolumn accuses Police Commissioner EdDavis of “Jumping to conclusions.” Thepolice, she not-so-subtly infers, are lying,because they are denying blame. Who,therefore, can believe the police, sincethey deny charges of brutality?Woodman’s drunken friends have pro-vided another version, and so they shouldbe believed, right Yvonne? Have you evertried to subdue and handcuff someonewho doesn’t want to be subdued or hand-cuffed, Yvonne? I’ll bet not. But I’d givea week’s pay to see you try.

And Kevin Cullen, who began his jour-nalistic career living off of police officersand the cannon fodder they provided, hasobviously given up beer and chips for theGlobe’s chardonnay and brie. In his column,“Asking for trouble,” Cullen cites the opin-ions of a friend of his from Albany, NY, aseason-ticket holder who was present onCauseway Street for the “celebration” fol-lowing the Celtics’ game. The friend wasupset by the presence of so many officerswearing riot gear and preparing for crowdcontrol. The friend thought this was “un-necessary” and from that, Cullen inferredthat Woodman’s death miles away musthave been caused by… you guessed it! :THE EVIL, BRUTAL POLICE. Of course,neither Cullen or his New York friend sawthe “fans” smashing windows, beatingpeople indiscriminately, lighting fires, or

urinating in public taunting the cops. “Howmany more must die”, wondered Cullen,because of the “storm-trooper tactics” [ofthe police].

And so, for stupidity and arroganceabove the accepted norms even for BostonGlobe reporters, the BPPA awards the July,2008 “BLAME THE POLICE” awards tothese two intrepid journalists.

� � � � �AUGUST, 2008 “BLAME THE PO-

LICE” AWARD goes to… MarjorieClapprood, occasional co-host of TomFinneran on WRKO’s morning radio show.After a scumbag, illegal-“criminalien” fromBrazil (who had been previously chargedwith attempted murder for ramming hisscumbag girlfriend’s car with his own) ledYarmouth Police on a wild high-speed, pur-suit, rammed the cruiser and gunned hisengine at the police, the suspect was shotby police and subsequently expired.

Summer, 2008 “BLAME THE POLICE” AWARDS(continued from page A1)

Marjorie, the limousine-liberal from tonySharon and former candidate for Mass. Lt.Governor, opined that the police werewrong and used excessive force. She offeredher ridiculous, non-sensical opinion that“training should be available” for these typeof incidents, as if one can actually be trainedfor such unpredictable acts of mobile may-hem and carnage. The perpetrators, and theperpetrators alone, are responsible for whatoccurs during and after similar incidents,not the police who are always in the posi-tion of having to react to these criminalscumbags. Congratulations, Margie!

� � � � �We’re not sure of much, but we’re sure

of one thing: they’ll be more “BLAMETHE POLICE” award winners for nextissue. Congratulations, winners! And re-member: “IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT.”

Charlestown worksite with an unfilled po-lice detail, and that he got through withouta problem, therefore, why the need for po-lice details at all, right? Of course, Scott andhis fellow yuppies would be the first onescomplaining if there was an accident, in-jury or if he was (gasp!) delayed in gettingto the Ivory Towers on Morrissey Blvd.Then, the calls to the Area A police-com-munity relations office would go somethinglike this: “Why wasn’t there a police officerassigned to (location X)! I was delayed intraffic! Do you know how important I am?I’m going to call the Mayor’s office!” etc., etc.

Lehigh is one those detestable peoplewho drives by a detail officer in 1.8 sec-onds and makes a snap-judgment aboutwhat you do all day. You might have beendoing traffic like a Dutch windmill all morn-ing, stopped to have a coffee with the crew,and Scott and his ilk will, sure as death andtaxes, drive by at that moment in time andsneer at you with that “God-I-hate-cops”look on their face. If you’ve encounteredthese people, then you’ve already met Globereporter Scott Lehigh.

The conundrum currently being ginnedup about police details has nothing to dowith alleged “tax dollar savings,” as Lehighand co. assert (…“tens of millions of dol-lars in taxpayer dollars could be saved!”…)We’ve already proven beyond any shadowof a doubt that the Massachusetts prevail-ing wage law has a rate for flagmen ($37.50per hr.) which already exceeds the cost of aBoston police detail, (and not even includ-ing night, weekend, holiday or other spe-cialty rates which Boston police don’t get!).And whenever one of these pretentious pho-nies tells you that “they’re concerned” aboutour health, or that we’ll be too tired for ourregular shifts… etc., etc., it’s time to headfor the hills. I can give you an ironclad guar-antee that neither Scott Lehigh, Barbara

Anderson of Citizens for Limited Taxationor any other local cop-hater is in the leastbit “concerned about our health and well-being.”

Oh, you’ll see Scott Lehigh and Co.driving by you when there’s a lull in theactivity or you’re drinking some water, that’sfor sure. You won’t see Scott, however,when you’ve just chased down a handbagthief on a detail, pulled a worker from aburning manhole, captured a scumbag onan outstanding warrant while on detail, oryou’re on detail assignment rolling aroundwith a fighting drunk at 3:00 am on StateStreet or at Tremont and Stuart. No, youcan be damn well sure that Scott Lehighand friends won’t be anywhere around then.They’ll be at a wine and cheese soirée atsome rich bastard’s Beacon Hill rooftopparty talking about how much they hate copsand isn’t it terrible that these police officersare doing details.

What they’re really concerned about isthe possibility that you, the perceived blue-collar stiff who doesn’t have the same col-lege degree they have, is making money,and sometimes more than them, God damnit! In their urban-professional minds, theyhave some pre-conceived amount of moneythat you, the low-life police officer, shouldbe limited to earn. They absolutely detestthe fact that (God forbid!) a cop might beable to earn enough money to send their kidsto the same schools as their children or(gasp!) live in their neighborhoods (perishthe thought!)! And behind it all is that thatinnate hatred of authority, the remembranceof that cop who gave them a ticket or didn’ttalk nice to them when they were at the anti-war protest in college.

Hatred of cops. That’s what really drivesthe anti-police detail argument. And now,you’ve met Globe columnist ScottLehigh!....

Meet Boston Globe columnistScott Lehigh(continued from page A5)


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revolt. I could go on and on about the thingsthat would immediately effect you. Howabout a page out of the Kevin Whiteplaybook? Want to create a little shock andawe to get the publics attention for makinga bad decision, how about police layoffs?Some of the younger officers I have spokento find it hard to believe that it could hap-pen. It happened not that long ago and thereare still many officers on the job who livedthrough the experience of the layoffs about25 years ago. Seek them out and ask themtheir experience and how serious an impactit had on them and their families, when theywere used as political pawns. Still think itis worth $3,600.00 per year, I don’t. Do Iwant to pay fewer taxes and expect that youdo too? Absolutely, but at the expense ofeverything else? No way.

If this ballot initiative is not taken seri-

ously and passes, we will all be looking at aserious new way of living and frankly notfor the better. Your job security and qualityof life are a central part of this debate. Pleasedo not live in the moment, consider yourfuture. Protect your interests and your fu-ture by voting “NO” on this ballot initia-tive that is now to be known as Question#1. You don’t need a crystal ball; the writ-ing is on the wall. Speak with your familyand friends and tell them how dangerousthis is. This initiative is too radical and willcause more harm then good. Enough said.The decision is yours. The propaganda cam-paign from the proponents has begun and Iam deeply concerned about the timing ofthis ballot question, as well as the tractionand momentum it is coming out of the gatewith.

Please be safe.

The perfect storm(continued from page A2)

Proposed abolition of State Income Taxmeans layoffs for public employees(continued from page A1)

out. With a palpable, visceral, anti-govern-ment, “throw-the-bums-out – screw-all-public-employees” attitude in the wind,there is a definite chance that this initiativecan and will succeed. It is incumbent uponevery member of the BPPA to ensure thathe/she and every eligible voting member oftheir families vote “NO” on this disastrousproposal, which is tantamount to cutting offone’s nose to spite one’s face.

The state income tax accounts for 40%of the state’s budget, so it goes without say-ing that basic services such as police, fire,ambulance and education will absolutely beon the chopping block. There’s simply noway around it. As the state budget goes, sodoes that of all localmunicipal govern-ments. Recent policehires in the BPD, forexample, would bethe first to be laid-off,while older veteranofficers would be re-assigned and orderedto perform mandatory overtime shifts in or-der to maintain even minimum staffing lev-els.

The libertarian, selfish-yuppie advocatesof this measure seem to think they’re theonly ones who pay taxes. They diminish thepossibility of public safety layoffs, sayingthat’s a scare tactic and there are “other ar-eas” where cuts could be made. (Interest-ingly, they never explain where those “otherareas” are). The “other areas,” of course,are always in somebody else’s backyard,never in their own. They’re mortified if thefire, police or ambulance don’t comequickly to their emergency (perceived, real,or imagined) but they shrug their shoulders

when it’s somebody else’s concern. They’llstamp their feet, scream and yell when theirstreets go un-repaired, their traffic lightsaren’t fixed, and their kids attend schoolswith 40 or 50 kids per class. They think ev-eryone works for them for nothing. It’s per-fectly OK if they sit behind a computer or adesk robbing people with the stroke a penor a touch of a keypad, but they’re outragedif a cop, an EMT or a firefighter makes morethan $100,000 per year by doing overtimeand/or details (a barely survivable salary inMassachusetts in 2008, by the way).

New Hampshire doesn’t have a state in-come tax, they argue, and so the sameshould apply here in Massachusetts. But of

course, property taxes in NH are outrageous:they simply replace one with the other andcall it something different. Unfortunately,there’s no accounting for what people doonce they get behind the anonymity of thevoting booth. What looks like a few thou-sand dollars in your pocket today will actu-ally cost more a year or two from now, butit’s difficult to explain that to people, espe-cially with economic conditions as theycurrently are. All we can do as a union is toencourage our own members and familiesto vote “NO” and to attempt to explain howdisastrous this proposal will actually be ifit passes. Get ready for bare-knuckle poli-tics after Labor Day….

and police unions. Think of the MunicipalResearch Bureau’s Sam Tyler, a man whonever met a benefit for public employeesthat he thought was good. Think of MichaelWidmer of the Massachusetts TaxpayersFoundation or Barbara Anderson ofCitizens for Limited Taxation (CLT) orCarla Howell of the Massachusetts Lib-ertarian Party, who is behind Question 1,the elimination of the Massachusetts in-come tax, which will be on the ballot thisNovember as a binding question. Andthen think of your own neighbors andfriends….

Besides the detail issue, Question 1 – theelimination of the Massachusetts state in-come tax – looms on the November ballot.It is a binding question which, if it passes,will eliminate 40% of the state budget andcorresponding amounts of local aid andother portions of municipal budgets. Thereis simply no way that layoffs can beavoided if this measure passes. A lot ofyour own friends and neighbors (relativeseven?) might smile and feign sympathy withthe plight of cops, teachers, firefighters,EMT’s and other municipal employees. Butin the current political and economic cli-mate, with gas and heating oil prices hurt-ing everyone, well, what happens whensomebody gets behind the anonymity of thevoting booth is the great unknown. Whowouldn’t go for keeping several thousandstate income tax dollars in their own pocketevery year, right? So what if it meansEMT’s, cops, firefighters and teachers willbe laid off? That always happens in the otherguy’s town, not mine, right? And besides, Inever call the cops (except when I needthem) and my kids are grown up and don’tuse the schools and didn’t I see the pictureof that body-building fireman on disabilityin the newspaper last week and they’re al-ways reporting corruption in government

on the talk shows, the toll collectors on theMasspike scamming motorists, the guystealing money from the copy machines atthe Somerville registry of deeds, etc. etc…..

Ladies and gentlemen of the BPPA, that,unfortunately, is the thinking out there, goodor bad, right, wrong or indifferent. Whenpeople think of cops, many think of theticket they got ten years ago or the gruffcop who told them to move along when theywere teenagers. The guy in Brooklinedoesn’t give a rat’s ass about the detail copin Roxbury who caught the handbag thiefor the detail cop downtown who pulled aninjured worker from a manhole. The ladyfrom Newton could care less about Bostonpolice short-staffing or mandatory overtimeshifts for cops covering for laid-off fellowemployees. All they care about in this dayand age is the possibility that, at least for ashort period of time, they can “send a mes-sage” to the politicians and keep some moredollars in their pocket. Whether or not theirproperty taxes skyrocket like NewHampshire’s to compensate for the elimi-nation of state income taxes is to worryabout at some later time.

And besides changes in police details andQuestion 1, there’s a growing clamor forpension “reform” and additional changes inhealth insurance and other pay-and-benefit,meat-and-potato issues. Your BPPA lead-ership works diligently on your behalf (andon behalf of police officers everywhere forthat matter) but only Jesus Christ and AnnieSullivan (Helen Keller’s teacher) wereknown as miracle workers. All of us, ev-eryone, and all of our family members, aregoing to have to ensure that we vote andparticipate fully in the political process ifwe’re going to have any hope of survivingthe upcoming storms. Get ready. Hold yourhats. And more importantly, make sure youVOTE!

Cop-haters declare war on police pay, benefits(continued from page A4)

It is incumbent upon every member ofthe BPPA to ensure that he/she andevery eligible voting member of theirfamilies vote “NO” on this disastrousproposal, which is tantamount to cuttingoff one’s nose to spite one’s face.

By Jim Barry,BPPA Legislative Agent

Get ready for the parade … Scott Lehighof the Boston Globe, Professor David

Tuerck of Suffolk University and MichaelWidmer of the Massaxhusetts TaxpayersAssociation will all be running their spinson what the regulations will do or what theythink they should do. These talking headsare the same folks that have lamented theprotections that were incorporated into theregulation legislation. Lehigh called for astatewide question on the ballot just a fewweeks back in his weekly column. Tuercksaid these regs would be useless unless theprevailing wage and collective bargaininglaws were repealed. Widmer is saying wecould save thousands in utility bills by stron-

State plans to release police detail regsger regs.

The impact on Boston Police Officerdetails will be virtually none. These regu-lations will impact state road projects andBoston Police details do not entail state roadprojects where the state is the awarding au-thority. Written into the legislation and theregulations are provisions for municipalexemptions. If a city or town is the award-ing authority and has a by law or ordinanceor it is in a collective bargaining agreementthen that by law, ordinance or CBA willcontrol that project’s police details. In a casewhere a city or town has a collective bar-gaining agreement in place before the regu-lations become effective, that will apply tostate road projects. Boston has all of those,ordinance and collective bargaining agree-

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Second in a Series: “Yellowed News Clippings”: Boston Police Patrolman John J. Gallagher (1929-1962)

The ScrapbookBy Anne E. Gallagher

Iknow my mother tried to explain whathappened when dad was killed. Before

she had a chance though, other people triedto explain.

“Your father’s dead!” cried one aunt.She was the first one who told my

brother, sister, and I that something hadhappened. We were huddled on the bed inthe room that I shared with my older sister.My sister cried.

We heard the voices downstairs, butdidn’t know what was going on. My motherwas still at the hospital and had not yet comeback to the house.

I ran downstairs in my feet pajamas, andpushed my way through reporters, uni-formed police, aunts and uncles. I lookedup at the faces, my eyes darting from oneface to the next looking for my mom anddad.

When I asked where daddy was, some-one said, “Your daddy’s in heaven.” I waspuzzled. I wondered why all the police andrelatives were at the house. Who were themen with the cameras? Why were peoplecrying? Where was my mom? Where wasmy dad? I knew something was terriblywrong. Then a police man took me by thehand, and put me in the side car of his mo-torcycle. We drove around the block.

“Where is my daddy?” I asked. He didn’tsay a word. What could he say?

It was decided that my brother and Iwould not go to the wake and funeral. Wewent and stayed at my uncle’s house. Wewere driven there by two police officers ina cruiser. I remember playing with the si-ren. When I got to the house, I ran to a roomand cried.

Days after the funeral, I was still con-fused. Now, alone in the house without dad,and trying to answer our questions, momsat with her arm around us and said “Daddyhas died. He was in a bank and a bad manshot him.” I didn’t get what “died” meant,but I knew that “bad” meant not good. Iwanted to find my dad.

So I waited. Iwaited at the top of thestreet corner for himto come home. I triedthat each day for sev-eral days. I waited andwaited, and wantedhim to come home. Iremembered that hesometimes drove apickup truck. I wantedthat pickup truck tocome into view. Iwanted him to stop atthe top of the streetlike he used to. Iwanted him to let the neighborhood kidsclimb into the rear of the truck, smile at meand say “Sit up here in front with me.”

That was the memory and the hope I hadas I waited at the top of the street. All I knewwas that I missed him and he hadn’t comehome in awhile.

“Maybe,” I thought, “If I run into the

middle of the street, maybe he’d come andget me.” Why I thought that and whatstopped me is beyond me.

Days and weeks passed and I began torealize dad wasn’t coming home. I had adream one nightof dad. He wasstanding tall andstraight as he al-ways did, andsaid, “I have togo.” “Don’t.Don’t go,” Ipleaded, but thenhe vanished.

In a placedeeper than mysoul, I felt and re-alized the heart-breaking truth. Hewas not comingback.

Within the first year of his death, therewere ceremonies that presented plaques,and another that presented a medal of valor.I wore that medal and lived with the ideathat dad was a hero. I imitated him whenwe played cops and robbers in the neigh-borhood, and wanted to learn how to ride ahorse.

There was also a trial, but it wasn’t talkedabout, or not that I remember anyway.

Some time later, at supper time, thephone rang. It was a local reporter. He askedmy mother what she thought about the deathpenalty. The reporter wanted her viewpointbecause Charles Tracy, the man who killedmy father, was now on death row. It waseither one more time that his sentence hadbeen commuted or when Massachusetts laweliminated the death penalty. I don’t knowwhich. “No comment,” my mother said andhung up the phone.

As the days passed, my siblings and Iwent to school, played with the neighbor-hood kids, did our homework, ate eveningdinner. Then, after several years of movingon without him, I wanted to know more

about what happened.The question had shifted from “When is

dad coming home?” to “What happened tohim?”

The scrapbook. The scrapbook with thethick brown cover and gold outline aroundits edges…Maybe that had the answer. Itwas under my mother’s bed in her room. I

knew there was something important inthere. Why I knew that I don’t remember.Did I see my mother cutting the articles andphotographs from the newspapers and past-ing them into that brown covered book with

the tan-coloredpaper? I don’tknow.

I took thebook and wentinto my brother’sroom. He wantedto see it too. I was12 or so and hewas three yearsolder.

I opened thescrapbook. Onthe first page wasthe photo of dad

lying on his back on the bank floor with thebullet hole in his white shirt. It wasfrom the front page of the RecordAmerican. I looked at the picture. Ididn’t cry. I hadn’t cried since thatday at my uncle’s. Then, I lookedat the page facing it. There was anarticle and a picture of the familyon the day he died. It was taken inthe living room of our home. I wassitting in my mom’s lap with fur-rowed eyebrows and lips turneddownward. As I looked at the pic-ture, I remembered seeing stars asthe light bulb went off when thephotographer snapped the picture.

Page after page in the scrapbookshowed newspaper photographs.There were pictures of him on dutyin Boston and pictures of my par-ents’ wedding.


There were pictures of the bank inKenmore Square, and the broken windowin the back where Tracy got in. There wasanother one of the police in a stand off withTracy. It showed an officer in his raincoat,sheltered by a door frame with bullet holesin it, gun in hand aiming down a corridor.

There was a picture of officers carryingmy dad out of the bank his head bent back.There was a picture of Bob Cunninghamwho had made his way into the supply roomwhere the shooting took place, and jumpedTracy. Then, there were pictures of the fu-neral; hundreds of uniformed police offic-ers in front of the church. They stood likesoldiers standing at attention as other offic-ers carried the flag-draped coffin to thehearse.

After viewing the photographs, mybrother and I read one of the articles. The

article was split into col-umns and pasted acrossseveral pages. Some of itwas mixed in with otherclippings, and the tapehad become unglued withage, but we pieced it to-gether by following thepage numbers and head-ings. It was written by anon-site reporter. He saidhe remembered beingstung by the tear gas be-cause he had just shaved.

He also described the whiz-zing sound of the bullets asthey went by.

After reading the piece, Isaid to my brother “You’dthink he was the hero.” Wewere somewhat indignant atthe self-aggrandizing tone ofthe article.

We closed the scrapbook,laid it in the box, and put itback under my mother’s bed.

From time to time, I wentback to the scrapbook andlooked at it. That RecordAmerican picture stayed fixedin my mind. So did the con-


“Yellowed News Clippings”:Boston Police Patrolman John J. Gallagher (1929-1962)

(continued from page A21)

By the time I was a teenager, the loss and unknowing passed into some deep unconsciousplace. It was resurrected when there were special occasions like graduations, or on the

anniversary of his death. Father-daughter nights in high school also reopened the wound.If I had it do over, I would not have gone. At the time, I was trying to be a courageous teenager

who had learned to stay upbeat and unbeatable by the loss, or by anything else that was unfairand tragic. I was trying to be heroic by denying a part of who I was – a teenager who had yet todeal with the violent loss of her dad. I was unaware that alcohol and weekend drinking partieswith friends were dulling the pain.

On the surface, all was well. I loved high school and learning and my teachers were excellent.I was a B+, A- student, active in chorale group and the school yearbook. I was Class Presidentduring my freshman year, and Co-President of Student Council during my senior year. I hadambitions to go to Boston College and successfully completed my degree. At the same timethough, alcohol had become my friend. It quelled the anxiety and depression, and silenced thevoice that kept saying “Something is missing.”

Istopped drinking in my late 20s, and fivemonths later, I was trapped in an abyss. I

woke up one morning and wanted to get agun. My plan was to blow my head off.

“Why was I thinking this way?” Every-thing seemed alright. I had a meaningfuljob as a high school teacher and held theesteem of students and colleagues. I had aloving family, romantic and social relation-ships, a religion that gave me solace. I didnot know that underneath the success I en-joyed, was a festering wound. I had no ideathat this death wish was related to some-thing tragic that had happened so manyyears ago. I had come to believe that thewhole thing with my father had been re-solved years ago.

I had a medical appointment that morn-ing and pushed myself to ask about talkingto a counselor. I had never done such a thingand wondered if I was being dramatic, but

The Silent Pain

Hitting the Iceberg

Articles in the series, “Yellowed News Clippings”:May/June 2008The AnniversaryMy introduction to the series of articles with a statement ofmy intentions for my readers.July/August 2008The ScrapbookMy account of my early years of looking for information aboutwhat happened to my dad.The Silent Pain (Adolescence, Young Adulthood)My account of dealing with the loss through high school andyoung adulthood.Hitting the IcebergMy first realizations that dad’s death had affected me moredeeply over the years than I had acknowledged.September/October 2008The RealizationExplains how getting the details of what happened helped mein my recovery.The Peace, Freedom, and ResolutionWhere I am now as a result of my looking for and finding whatI needed to know.

The Scrapbook

then the gun idea became persistent and Idecided that it might be a good idea to talkwith someone about it.

The doctor suggested that I go to the ERat New England Medical Center so I did.

During the intake at the hospital, I wasasked why I went there.

“I want to get a gun and blow my headoff,” I said. I couldn’t believe I was sayingsuch a thing.

The nurse looked at me and said, “Soyou’re suicidal?”

“I guess so.” I hadn’t put that name to it,but that’s what those feeling and ideas arecalled.

About a half hour after talking to thenurse, she called me into a room. It wasdimly lit and had padding on the walls.

One thought after another ran throughmy mind “What the heck am I doing here?Am I nuts? Talk to a therapist? That’s for

people with problems. I don’t have anyproblems.”

There was pressure on my temples like myhead was held in a vice, and I gritted my teeth.Then a woman came into the room.

“What brings you here?” she asked.I told her what I was thinking when I

woke up that morning. Then she asked ques-tions about my life.

“Are your parents living?” she asked.“My mother is, but my father is dead.”“How long ago?”“25 years.”“What happened to him?”“He was a police officer and was shot in

a bank.”“So, he was murdered?”My explanation of what happened was

usually “shot in a bank” or “killed in theline of duty,” but I was always matter-of-fact about it; monotone, polite, and expres-sionless when I pronounced the words.Now, here was someone calling it a mur-der. I felt stabbed.

The therapist seemed very interested inthe whole thing which puzzled me. I wantedto run from the room.

“Why in heaven’s name was she askingme so many questions about it?” It was oldnews, 25 years old. “Things happen.Everyone’s got pain in their lives, but you

move on.” I silently reasoned. “Thiscouldn’t still be bothering me.”

After explaining my options, one ofwhich was to be admitted to the hospital, Iopted to go home. During the followingdays, though, the suicidal thoughts in-creased. Everyday things triggered thoughtsabout killing myself, kitchen knives, ropeson the shades, electrical cords, walkingacross a foot bridge over Storrow Drive, arope in my friend’s sail boat. My mind feltas if it had been shot with Novocain.

I went back to the hospital and this timewas admitted. During my stay, I realizedthat dad’s death was lurking in the labyrinthof my mind and my soul. I had not reallyprocessed the grief and terror of what hadhappened. And my drinking silenced itthrough the years.

I spent three weeks in the hospital, wentback to work, and continued therapy. I wasresentful and embarrassed about the wholeprocess and still struggled to believe thatdad’s death was an issue with me. With timeI began to accept that it haunted me, andsomething had to change. The broken glassfeeling inside was fury, and I had enoughof it to fill the universe.

Following the death of his wife, Joy, C.S.Lewis said he “never knew grief tasted likefear.” I never knew it tasted like fury.

tradictions in the yellowed news clippings. Some of the articles said dad andhis partner were the first to arrive at the bank, others said they came later.Some said the other officers were searching the upstairs, others said theywere downstairs where it happened.

Stories from relatives also contradicted each other. Some said the policeknew Tracy was in the bank, others said dad had no idea and was completelytaken by surprise.

I don’t remember where I got the information, but somehow I thought thewhole ordeal of stopping Tracy and getting my dad out of the bank took twoto three hours. How could it have taken so long with so many officers at thebank and one gunman?

It was often said how confusing the shooting was. The corridors of thebasement made it difficult to know where Tracy was and where my fa-ther was. I didn’t understand, and couldn’t grasp what was so confusingabout it.

The contradictions made me restless, anxious. I had tried hard to sim-ply accept that dad was a hero, but it was an unsatisfying awareness. Onethat didn’t alleviate the confused, nameless mix of feelings I had.


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Kids enjoy 2008 BPPA Family Day at the Brockton RoxKids enjoy 2008 BPPA Family Day at the Brockton Rox

On Sunday July 20th, the BPPA held a Family Day for our members and their fami-lies. The event was held at Campanelli Stadium, home of the Brockton Rox.

Almost 200 people turned out for a great day of friends, food, and baseball. Due tothe weather, the kids didn’t make it out to the field before the game, but more thanmade up for after when they got the chance to play catch and run the bases.

A great job was done by Emily Rogers, Connor Dwan, and Sean Broderickduring the frozen T-Shirt contest, with Emily being the winner!

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Hopefully, we will have even morepeople able to make it next year!

Sean, Emilyand Connorprepare for thefrozen T-Shirtcontest.

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The McCarthy Family.

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Re: Boston Globe article,“Asking for trouble”

Letters to the editors of the Boston Herald and Globe

Dear Editor,As a veteran Boston police officer, I am

outraged beyond words at Kevin Cullen’scolumn “Asking for trouble,” Boston Globe,7/21/08. Cullen reports the views of a manfrom Albany, N.Y. named Jim Rufo whoopines that the police response to the un-ruly crowds following the Celtics’ victorywas excessive and somehow responsible forthe death of David Woodman. As one ofthe officers who was confronted with theviolent, obnoxious, drunken behavior of so-called fans “celebrating” the Celtics’ vic-tory, it would be my personal pipe-dreamto grab Mr. Rufo and Mr. Cullen by thescruff of the neck, put them in a police uni-form for the night, and have them deal withthese alleged “fans.”

The behavior of these morons, the over-whelming majority of whom were not fromthis city, was disgusting and disgraceful.

They smashed windows, lit fires, urinatedin public and committed multiple acts ofassault and vandalism, all under the guiseof “celebrating.” As police officers, we arealways placed in the position of “damned ifyou do, damned if you don’t.” There’s ei-ther too many cops or not enough, and we’reeither too aggressive or not aggressiveenough. But for Cullen and his friend Rufofrom New York to use the Boston PoliceDepartment for a punching bag is simplyoutrageous.

The officers who had the unfortunateoccasion to interact with Mr. Woodman areguilty of nothing more than doing their jobs.Sitting behind a computer at the Globe criti-cizing cops is indeed a luxurious bully-pul-pit, isn’t it Mr. Cullen?

– James W. CarnellBoston Police Patrolmen’s Association

Area A-1 representative

Dear Mr. Cullen,Suffering no illusions that the letter to

the editor (attached) I sent to the Globe inresponse to your column “Asking fortrouble” will ever actually appear, I havedecided to send a response to you directly,on behalf of all members of the BostonPolice Patrolmen’s Association and on be-half of those unfortunate officers involvedin the Woodman incident.

Your column, based on the opinions of aMr. Jim Rufo from Albany, N.Y., was noth-ing short of disgraceful. It is always easy tosit in the armchair and criticize what theplayers on the field should have done ormight have done differently. As one of theofficers assigned to Causeway Street dur-ing the alleged “celebrations” following theCeltics’ victory over the Lakers, I againwitnessed and experienced the level of ab-solute stupidity which human beings canattain when under the influence of alcohol.Thousands of idiot suburbanites and youth-ful morons – none of whom had tickets tothe game – came to this city on that nightwith the sole intent of getting drunk andcausing trouble. At one point, the securitybarricades were overrun by drunken foolswho proceeded to then break windows onCanal Street. My particular squad was or-dered to retreat in the face of overwhelm-ing numbers of violent drunks until addi-tional help arrived. While your friend Mr.Rufo, the privileged season-ticket holderfrom Albany, N.Y. was “high-fiving” withhis new-found friends on Causeway Street,my fellow officers and I were dealing withlegions of drunken idiots assaulting peopleand destroying property.

Unfortunately, Mr. Cullen, we cannotcomment, other than in general terms, onthe death of Mr. Woodman, as the matter isstill under active investigation, although Iam literally champing at the bit to do so.Suffice it to say that individuals who havepre-existing heart conditions should prob-ably not be “celebrating” by publicly drink-

ing beer and then wrestling with cops try-ing to lawfully arrest them. I’m not a detec-tive or a doctor, but I’m going to go wayout on a limb and say that at a minimum,that’s not too smart.

Your characterization of my fellow of-ficers as employing “storm trooper tactics”is disgraceful and insulting. If anything, Iwitnessed the BPD’s kid-glove treatment ofviolent drunks who lit fires, smashed win-dows, urinated in public and randomly as-saulted others. And as for Mr. Rufo’s con-descending, gratuitous statement that “Ihave nothing against the police. My grand-father was a policeman.” Could you kindlytell him to stick it where the sun don’t shine?Mr. Rufo, your expert witness on whom yourely for this column, saw but one tiny frag-ment of the conduct which I witnessed thatevening. While reveling on Causeway St.,he is no position to pass judgment on theactions of police officers miles away whowere dealing with legions of drunken idi-ots hell-bent on causing mayhem.

Once all of the facts of DavidWoodman’s death are made public, and notjust the observations and opinions of a sea-son-ticket holder from New York and aGlobe columnist, I am certain that the of-ficers will be exonerated. Several of the of-ficers involved are only a few years olderthan Woodman, and feel terrible about whathappened, even though they are guilty ofnothing more than performing their jobs.Some have already had their reputations sul-lied; their unrelated, minor disciplinary recordsor unfounded complaints splashed around thepages of the Globe. All wonder why theycontinue to perform this most thankless ofjobs, where second guessing and relentlessscrutiny from critics who sit on the com-fortable sidelines has become an art form.

Sincerely,James W. Carnell

Boston Police Patrolmen’s AssociationArea A-1 Representative

Editor, Pax Centurion

Dear Editor:Before I respond to your editorial in the

Boston Herald August 6, 2008 issue, “Nopublic interest in paid cop details,” I wantedto advise you that I am a former member ofthe BPPA and current member of the BPDDetectives Union. The following reply aremy personal feelings and do not necessar-ily reflect the opinions of the BPD.

Expected ResultsThe poll conducted by the Beacon Hill

Institute and the Political Research Centerresults should have been expected. Theabove groups, along with the Herald andGlobe have been on an anti-detail campaignfor years. Many erroneous articles and stud-ies have been produced in opposition topolice details, while factual rebuttal by theBoston Police Patrolmen’s Association hasbeen suppressed. Your constant barrage ofmyths and lies regarding details, withoutequal representation of the opposing view,created these results.

Re: Boston Herald editorial,“No public interestin paid cop details”

The fact is the BPPA has provided youwith significant data that shows flagmen arenot cheaper than police details. The BPPAhas offered to publicly debate this matterwith all of the above groups, however noneare willing to do so. Police details add about300 police officers to the street at minimalcost to the private entity. Significant docu-mentation of heroic acts preformed by de-tail officers has also been provided, how-ever you refuse to acknowledge that. Finallyplease don’t reply that utilities are so highbecause of police details. Quite frankly, thecost of police details compared to the pub-lic safety benefit they provide, are minus-cule. Do you really believe that utility billswill go down with flagmen? If you are soconfident in your research why are you soafraid of open debate? Reach out to theBPPA, I’m sure they would be willing todiscuss it in a fair and proper forum.

Respectfully,Bill Kelley,

West Roxbury

Dear Editor,Parroting an alleged “study” concerning

police details conducted by the Beacon HillInstitute, the Herald’s editorial board (pre-dictably) issued yet another editorial con-demning police details. Once again, theHerald thoroughly ignores the fact that theMassachusetts prevailing wage law alreadymakes the use of flagmen more expensivethan using police officers. (Boston PoliceOfficers: $33.00-$37.00 per hour, flagmen:$37.50 per hour, excluding night, weekendand other specialty rates).

These alleged “studies” issued from theBeacon Hill Institute are viewed by us atthe Boston Police Patrolmen’s Associationwith a jaundiced eye. We recall that BHIissued an anti-Cape Wind “study” severalyears ago. Of course, we then learned thatthe wealthy Egan family foundation, which

was opposed to Cape Wind from the startand owns property which might be impactedby “unsightly” windmills, “donated”$100,000 to BHI for the study. (Source:Boston Globe columnist Joan Venocchi,December 14, 2004, “Cape Wind: too uglyfor the rich?”)

Of course, it’s all in how you frame thequestion. We’ve done our own “studies”here at the BPPA and have found that 98.9%of those surveyed want less expensive, ex-perienced police officers on the streets andnot more expensive, useless flagmen.

Hey, if BHI can publish their “stud-ies” using questions designed to elicit aparticular response, we can certainly is-sue ours….

– James W. CarnellBoston Police Patrolmen’s Association

Area A-1 representative


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As parents our biggest fears are for the welfare of our children. From the day theyare born we try and protect them from any illnesses or harm. They are the most

precious things in life we have and we will do anything to protect them. We listen asthey speak their first words and watch as they take their first steps. Aside of when theyare born these moments are etched in our minds forever. They may catch a cold or avirus and we see them through to good health with medicine and love.

When they begin to speak, we teach them good manners and instill family valuesin them. These values stay with them throughout their lives. These children are awork in progress and as parents we never stop giving, even when they leave to go outon their own. We provide them with an education, watch them as they walk down theaisle, and marvel as they become parents. We share in all their joy and triumph, andsupport them during their lows. We are their parents.

Unfortunately as human beings we suffer many ups and downs in our lives. Howwell we rebound from the downs will determine how well we can cope with life ingeneral. We all have a lonely place in our hearts which deals with depression. Forsome of us the anxiety of living itself can throw us into the abyss of despair. Some-times you can see it coming like an oncoming freight train. Those around can see it aswell but cannot reach out to help due to the surrounding wall built up by the personsuffering the depression. It is a horrible feeling waiting for the impending doom, butsometimes a person must hit bottom before they can climb out. Some make it backand some don’t.

The other sides of the coin are those you least expect to be suffering from depres-sion. They appear to be in control but inside they are hurting. They are in a dark placeof loneliness and despair with no place to turn. We cannot help this person becausewe are unaware that they are suffering. If they could reach out to us they would, butthey can’t. For some reason they are consumed by this ominous feeling and alas theonly way out for them is one that causes grief for everyone around. Wondering whyand how this could have happened will be on everyone’s mind. In the end it is aterrible tragedy for the remaining family and friends left behind who have to dealwith the loss. It is a slow healing process which leaves us to depend on each other tohelp guide us through the feelings of pain we must endure.

I can tell you honestly that Jack and Kathy Loan are two of the best parents Iknow. They, like any other parents have raised their children with love and admira-tion. They loved their daughter Kaitlyn Keaney as she loved them. Kaitlyn was agood friend to all who knew her. She loved her family and relatives. She had a fewpets that she took care of which kept her company. Having kept Jack and his wifecompany during this trying time, I sensed the cats and dogs Kaitlyn owned knew shewas gone. The animals acted like they were actually trying to console those aroundthem.

Jack and Kathy have two other children, Keleigh (Kelly) and John. Losing asibling and watching their parents go through this anguish has taken its toll on them.They, like their parents cannot understand how this young beautiful girl who hadaccomplished so much in a short period of time could be gone. This whole familywill now have to rely on each other to get through this traumatic experience. This iswhere family and friends shine. The outpouring of affection shown during the wakeand funeral service for Kaitlyn was truly a testament of how much she was loved andwill be missed. It was also a testament of how a community and police family gathersround one of their own to protect and console them in their hour of need.

Not since Joe Moakley’s and Jim Kelly’s wake had I saw such a long line ofpeople waiting to pay their respects to the family. Members of Area A-1 and C-6along with many other members of the BPD lined up for a walk by in the pouringrain. If tears were measured in rainfall, this day it would have equaled that which hadfallen to the ground. The funeral mass at Saint Monica’s Church shut down traffic onPreble Street from Andrew Square to Columbia Road. I can’t remember when I haveseen so many cars lined up in a procession. When I walked up to the front of thechurch on Columbia Road and saw what looked like the entire Boston Police Depart-ment lined up it made me realize how many people this young girl and family havetouched. The bagpipes were playing solemnly as people walked into the church. Youcould have heard a pin drop as the BPD Honor Guard and Pall Bearers lead Kaitlynand her family to the front of the church. It was a fitting ceremony with eloquentspeeches given by Patrick Keaney (cousin) and Patrick Byrne (Kaitlyn’s boyfriend)recalling their fondest moments of Kaitlyn. Meghan Brown Cress and MaureenReady sang like angels during the Mass.

Cedar Grove Cemetery would be the final resting place for Kaitlyn. It is herewhere hearts are broken and tears are shed the most. After the priest gave his finalprayers and blessings, Meghan Brown Cress sang “Tears in Heaven.” WatchingJack and Kathy place a rose on Kaitlyn’s casket broke many hearts that looked on.Everyone knows that the hardest thing for any parent to do is burying their own child.Family and friends will be around to support the Loans, but in the end they will be leftto lament a parent’s grief.

A parent’s grief

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Big Brother is not only watching,but he’s also videotaping

Legal Notes: Kenneth H. Anderson, Esq.Byrne & Drechsler, L.L.P., Counsel to Members of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association

If you are like me, you had to read GeorgeOrwell’s novel 1984 in ninth grade. If

you are also like me, you probably don’tremember a lick about this book, other thanthe phrase “Big Brother is watching you.”That phrase, made popular by Orwell’snovel, is relevant to police officers and otherpublic safety officials working in today’sworld of law enforcement. The expression,however, should beupdated to reflect thechanges in our times,and may better bestated: “Big Brotheris watching you, vid-eotaping you, andwill be uploading youonto YouTube.”

Over the past sev-eral months, I havehad to deal with twovery difficult cases in-volving public safety officials (not BostonPolice Officers) who found themselves los-ing their tempers and striking handcuffedindividuals before the wrong ends of videocameras. Both of these public safety offi-cials are good people. Both had good em-ployment records. Both also lost their jobs.One is being criminally prosecuted. Today’sreality is that video is everywhere: insidepolice stations, inside hospital lobbies, in-side convenience stores and fast food res-taurants, and in almost everyone’s cellphone. It’s the world we live in, and youmust – absolutely must – be cognizant of it.

Over the past ten years,I have represented severalhundred police officers inall sorts of setting includingClerk’s hearings, InternalAffairs interviews, Anti-Corruption interrogations,Homicide interviews, fed-eral and state grand juries,and at trials. While prepar-ing officers for their testi-mony, I make it a point to tell the officershow important it is that they speak the truth.First and foremost, telling the truth is anessential part of your job as a police officer.Moreover, speaking the truth is essentialbecause you never know when a videotapeof your actions will surface. It is one thingto screw something up. It is something verydifferent to get caught lying about yourmistake, especially when your actions areon video.

If I were in charge of the policeacademy’s curriculum, something that willnever happen, I would make two real-lifevideotapes involving former Boston Policeofficers mandatory viewing for all incom-ing police officers. The first videotape in-volves a drug arrest at a local fast food res-taurant. In this case, members of a drug BPD

While preparing officers for their testimony, I make it a point to tellthe officers how important it is that they speak the truth. First andforemost, telling the truth is an essential part of your job as a policeofficer. Moreover, speaking the truth is essential because you neverknow when a videotape of your actions will surface. It is one thingto screw something up. It is something very different to get caughtlying about your mistake, especially when your actions are on video.

Let’s face it. Your job is not easy. The public expects two verydifficult things from you. Perhaps unreasonably, the public expectsyou to maintain your composure in all situations, even when youare sworn at, spat upon, or assaulted. Unlike other humans, policeofficers are not supposed to react in anger. The public, and also thecourts, additionally expect you to tell the truth in all situations.

squad witnessed an individual pull into therestaurant parking lot and make a call onhis cell phone. A short time later, a secondvehicle pulled in, and the two drivers madeeye contact with each other. Both operatorssimultaneously got out of their cars andwalked together inside, walking down ahallway to the men’s room in the rear of therestaurant.

The incident report outlining this arreststated that the detective in question followedthese two males into the restroom and heardthem consummate a drug deal, specificallyrecounting the conversation between themales as the drugs and money were ex-changed while the detective pretended tourinate. The harsh reality, however, was thatthis detective never entered the men’s room,which was as clear as day from film cap-tured on a high quality security camera. Themen’s room in question had a urinal, a toi-let, and a sink, but no dividing petitionsbetween them. It also had a lock on the door.

Although the police knew from their expe-rience what transpired inside the bathroom– a fact established by the drugs later foundon one suspect and money on the other –the detective was not inside the men’s roomand did not witness the incident as he re-ported in his incident report. The drugdealer, who likely locked the bathroom door,pointed out this falsehood in the incidentreport to his lawyer who obtained the vid-eotape from the restaurant. The videoshowed the two men enter the men’s roomand showed the two men leave. It alsoshowed that the detective never went downthe hallway. Upon learning that the officerlied to establish the basis for his arrest, thedrug case was dismissed. Regrettably, the de-tective who wrote the false report got indictedand was terminated. The tape didn’t lie.

The other mandatory video in my policeacademy would be one of an officer work-ing a paid detail at a supermarket. In thisvideo, the officer in question is seen goingto elaborate lengths to steal a videotape fromthe store, which was all captured on the storesecurity camera as the operator of the cam-era zooms in on the officer. The videotapewas first hidden by the detail officer inside

of a folded newspaper that was later re-trieved and moved to another location. Itwas later placed inside of a bag and broughtinto the bathroom where the anti-theft de-vices were cut off and hidden in the ceil-ing. The video was later taken out of thestore. The teaching point behind both ofthese videos is you don’t know when youare being watched, and you don’t knowwhen you are being recorded. If you arewriting a report, write it accurately. If youare testifying, testify truthfully. If you arenot sure or don’t remember something, sayso truthfully.

Although public and private institutionsnow have cameras almost everywhere, youalso be aware of those ubiquitous cell phonecameras. Dating back to the unfortunateincident surrounding the 2004 death ofVictoria Snelgrove outside Fenway Park,you will recall how myriads of videotapesfrom the raucous celebration-turned-riotwere provided to the media and police in-vestigators from multiple sources. Eachvideo that surfaced showed dozens of otherpeople also videotaping the events on theircell phones. The same goes for the recentdestructive behavior after the Celtics’ cham-pionship last June. Use of cell phone videocameras, however, is not limited to largescale celebrations. Drug dealers in the Com-bat Zone and young hoodlums in any partof the city can videotape your behavior and

post it on YouTube or send it to the BostonHerald faster than you can say “does thathave a delete button?” Believe me. It hasalready happened. And remember, whatgets sent to the Department or to the mediamay not present the whole picture: it mayonly show you using force to subdue some-one, but it may not include what the arresteedid to warrant your use of force. If you use

force while making an arrest, don’tneglect to include it in your report.If you have to use your nightstick orflashlight, explain it in your report.Don’t omit it.

Videotape, on the other hand, canalso serve to vindicate you. Severalyears ago, a prisoner died inside acell at District Four. The prisoner inthe cell across from the now-de-parted prisoner told the respondinghomicide detectives how the dyingprisoner was gasping for air, and then

dramatically acted out for the detectives howthe prisoner died on his hands and kneeswhile holding his throat and struggling tobreath. During the dramatic re-enactment,the prisoner talking to the homicide detec-tive told how he himself repeatedly bangedon his cell door and yelled out for someoneto come help the dying man. If what thisprisoner was saying was true, can you imag-ine how the heads would have rolled be-cause the police did not respond to thesecalls for help to come save this dying pris-oner? If this scenario played out in a stationwithout video, the heads of patrol officers

would probably still be rolling.Fortunately, the prisoner inquestion died in a cell withvideo, and all the tape revealedwas someone dying quietly ona bench as they slept, some-thing that was not discernableto anyone who would havebeen checking on this prisoner.The other prisoner obviouslyhad no qualms about lying to

hurt the officers in question. The video savedseveral careers and prevented a massive law-suit. Video can be your friend.

Let’s face it. Your job is not easy. Thepublic expects two very difficult things fromyou. Perhaps unreasonably, the public ex-pects you to maintain your composure inall situations, even when you are sworn at,spat upon, or assaulted. Unlike other hu-mans, police officers are not supposed toreact in anger. The public, and also thecourts, additionally expect you to tell thetruth in all situations. As the MassachusettsAppeals Court wrote in 1997, “a demon-strated willingness to fudge the truth in exi-gent circumstances [is] a doubtful charac-teristic for a police officer. Police work fre-quently calls upon officers to speak the truth


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The 1996 Disability Retirement LawAmendments: An update

Twelve years after the Legislature re-wrote the disability retirement laws,

public employees continue to feel the after-shocks. Most recently, the Appeals Courtand the Civil Service Commission haveweighed in on aspects of this complicatedprocess. The changes began in 1996 when,after a newspaper expose about disabilityretirees working physically-demanding jobsin the private sector, pressure built on Bea-con Hill to reform the pub-lic employee disability re-tirement system. Under thatsystem, public employeeswho become disabled canretire with a pension no mat-ter what their age. Employ-ees with job-related disabili-ties receive 72% of their paytax free; pension benefits fornon-job related disabilities (only availableto someone with at least 10 years on thejob) are considerably lower. The pre-1996system included some medical reviews andpermitted employers to take back retireeswho had recovered from their disabilities,but in practice it rarely happened. As a re-sult, some felt, the system was ripe forabuse.

This was where the Legislature steppedin. It amended Chapter 32, Section 8, of theMass. General Laws to tighten up the medi-cal review process and require employersto take back any former retiree found to befit, as long as there was a vacancy in thesame or a similar position. Almost imme-diately, disability retirees who were now fitto work began knocking on the doors of theirformer employers looking to return. Twosuch employers – the City of Boston andthe City of Cambridge – refused to take backpolice officers who had been retired on dis-ability and had medical approval to return.Both officers went to court. The SupremeJudicial Court (SJC) ruled in 1998 that thestatute meant what it said – the employerhad no discretion. If there was a vacancy(and both Boston and Cambridge did haveopenings), and the officer had been clearedfor duty by the state’s Public EmployeeRetirement Administration Commission(PERAC), then the city had no choice inthe matter. (The cases are White v. City ofBoston, 428 Mass. 250 (1998) and O’Neillv. City Manager of Cambridge, 428 Mass.257(1998).)

With the choice/discretion issue re-solved, civil service law added a twist tothe plot. Chapter 31, Section 39 of the Mass.General Laws requires formerly disabledcivil service employees returning to workafter an absence of five years or more tosuccessfully complete a retraining programdesigned by the employer and approved bythe state Human Resources Division(HRD). A question arose: When does the

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

right of reinstatement begin, before or afterthe retraining? The SJC answered the ques-tion in Sullivan v. Town of Brookline, 435Mass. 353 (2001), in favor of the employ-ers, who generally wanted their obligationto reinstate the returning retiree to begin aslate as possible. Sullivan, a returning dis-ability retiree who was required to completea retraining program, but had not yet com-pleted it, had no right to reinstatement, the

SJC ruled. His right (and the town’s obliga-tion) only began after he had successfullycompleted the retraining.

Facella v. City of Newton, 69 Mass. App.Ct. 459 (2007), followed up on a questionleft unanswered by Sullivan: What are therights of a returning retiree who has actu-ally been reinstated, but has not completedretraining? The answer: few to none. InFacella, the Appeals Court strengthened theSullivan court’s conclusion that successfullycompleting retraining is the key factor indetermining the employment status of civilservice disability retirees who retired morethan five years earlier. The state clearedFacella as physically fit to return to a policeofficer position after 19 years on disabilityretirement. The City immediately reinstatedher, relying on the law as it existed at thetime. The City assigned her to a desk jobfor several months, and then sent her to thepolice academy for a 22-week retrainingcourse. During the retraining course, healthissues caused her to drop out of the acad-emy and be placed on sick leave. When 18months passed, and Facella still had notcompleted the academy, the City terminatedher employment. Facella sought to appealher termination using the legal protectionsfor tenured employees under civil servicelaw. Under that law, Facella would have theright to a hearing before the employer, andthe right to appeal to the Civil Service Com-mission, which would order her reinstatedunless the City could prove it had just causeto fire her.

The Appeals Court backed the City, rul-ing that Facella had never finished the re-training program, so she had never beenfully reinstated as a tenured officer. At best,she was “conditionally reinstated … sub-ject to her completing a retraining program.”Facella, 69 Mass. App. Ct. at 464. In other

words, a disability retiree cleared to returnto work has no legal claim on the employ-ment, and no right to just cause protectionagainst termination, unless and until the re-tiree completes training.

Sullivan in 2001 and Facella in 2007represent a trend towards strengthening therights of employers – who generally resistthe return of retirees – in the returning dis-ability retiree arena, after the strong pro-

retiree statements of White and O’Neill in1998. On the other hand, they may be onlythe courts’ response to a specific problem:how do the right to reinstatement and theretraining obligation intersect? This trend(if it is one) is also reflected by PERAC’sdecision to amend its regulations so that adisability retiree seeking to return to workmust receive a unanimous report, not a meremajority, from a panel of designated physi-cians. The Appeals Court gave the new regu-lation its stamp of approval in Pulsone v.PERAC, 60 Mass. App. Ct. 791 (2004).

Even more recently, the Civil ServiceCommission added its perspective on theissue by approving HRD’s practice of en-forcing hiring preferences for returning re-tirees in Faggiano, Jones & Cappuccio v.City of Medford and HRD, a decision thatgoes against the general pro-employer trend.Faggiano, which was decided on July 3,2008, involves the appeals of the top threefirefighters on the list for promotion to avacant lieutenant’s position. The City hadasked for a list to promote one of the men,but HRD refused, explaining that there werethree retired Medford fire lieutenants whohad been cleared by PERAC to return fromdisability retirement, and the law requiredHRD to keep open any vacancies until theyreturned to work. (The actual language is“the member shall be granted a preferencefor the next available position. . . .” G.L. c.32, § 8(2)(a).) To complicate matters, noneof the three retirees had completed theHRD-approved retraining program, in partbecause the state fire academy refused toadmit them. As a result, the retirees werenot retrained, so the vacancy remained open,

and the City could not fill it, despite the pres-ence of an active promotional list.

The Commission sided with HRD andthe returning retirees. It agreed that HRDhad the right to refuse to provide a promo-tional list as long as there was at least onePERAC-approved retiree waiting to return.It criticized the City of Medford for failingto work with HRD to construct a retrainingprogram that did not require the use of the

fire academy, especially af-ter the City learned of the fireacademy’s refusal to retrainthe retirees. Ultimately, theCivil Service Commissiondenied the firefighters’ ap-peals and, in order to upholdits (and HRD’s) interpreta-tion of the disability retire-ment law, prohibited the City

of Medford from making a promotion tofill the vacancy.

Once the former disability retiree is readyto return and, assuming civil service appliesand he or she’s been retired at least fiveyears, the employer has designed an HRD-approved retraining program, the next setof questions pertains mostly to the collec-tive bargaining agreement (CBA). The Ap-peals Court acknowledged in Thomas v.Department of State Police, 61 Mass. App.Ct. 747 (2004), that an existing union con-tract governs the terms of employment ofthe returning former retirees. In Thomas, thereturning retirees argued that the retirementlaws guaranteed them better wages and ben-efits than the CBA, but the court disagreed.The negotiability of returning former dis-ability retiree wages, hours and workingconditions was well known to the BPPA,which negotiated a comprehensive agree-ment with the City in 2001, long beforeThomas was decided. The agreement cov-ers such matters as accrual of leave and otherbenefits during the retraining program, eli-gibility for details and overtime and calcu-lation of seniority for vacation and shift se-lection. By taking a proactive approach andaddressing these issues early, the BPPAavoided potential confusion down the road.

As the most recent cases make clear, thefallout from the 1996 changes to the dis-ability retirement laws is far from over. Asdevelopments occur, we will work with yourunion officials to keep you informed.

Some of you may have read about recent decisions from our stateSupreme Judicial Court involving allegations of racial profiling andselective enforcement of traffic laws. These cases arose out of StatePolice traffic stops resulting in vehicle searches which revealed evi-dence of drugs or other contraband.


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P.S. On behalf of the Loan and Keaneyfamily I would like to thank Police Com-missioner Ed Davis and his staff for theirkind words and support. Thank you ChiefSuperintendent Robert Dunford, Superin-tendent Daniel Linskey and Deputy WillyGross for their kind support. A special thankyou Lt. Detective Bobby Merner and hisunit for handling the matter with dignity andrespect. They would also like to thank Mo-bile Operations, Mounted and other unitsthroughout the city that helped with thewake and funeral. Thanks to Boston PoliceChaplain Father Sean Connor for his sup-port and prayers. Thanks to all the localbusinesses who donated food and otheritems. A special thanks to those officers whohelped fill in down in District One, whichallowed the officers in that district to attendthe funeral.

Thank you to all of Kaitlyn’s co-work-ers and friends in Area A-1. Thank you Cap-tain Flaherty for assigning a unit 24/7 infront of 431 E. Sixth St. Thanks to all the

units that took the assignment, and kept uscompany. Thank you to Terry Burke forthe generous donation he solicited from theUnited States Marine Corps. Thank you tothe Family Assistance Unit, Sgt. JimmyO’Connor, P.O. Billy Carroll, P.O. JackMcCarthy, P.O. Julie Colburn and othersthat served us during the wake and funeral.Thanks to the Boston Gaelic Column, Sgt.Joe Cheevers, for the wonderful bagpipemusic played the day of the funeral. Spe-cial thanks to the BPPA leadership and allits members for being with us during ourtime of need. Last but not least, I would liketo thank the following officers who are closefriends and were assigned to the familyduring our time of need; P.O. Lenny Lilly,P.O. Liz Philbin, P.O. Michael Felton andSgt. John Doris. These individuals wentabove and beyond the call of duty, theresupport and kindness was unwavering dur-ing this time of need.

God Bless and thank you all for yourkindness.

A parent’s grief(continued from page B4)

Police deaths plummet infirst half of ’08

By Kevin Johnson, USA Today

Police officer deaths plunged to their lowest midyear total in 43 years after anunusually deadly year for law enforcement officers, says a report released today

by a national police advocacy group.The review reflects declines in all major categories of officer fatalities, including

traffic accidents and shootings, the National Law Enforcement Officers MemorialFund found.

Overall deaths declined from 100 to 59 in the first six months of 2007 comparedto the same period this year. The number of overall deaths is the lowest since 1965,when 55 officers were killed.

Midyear shooting deaths fell from 38 in 2007 to 21 this year, the lowest numbersince 1960, when 18 officers were killed by gunfire.

“I’m amazed to see declines of this magnitude,” says Craig Floyd, memorialfund chairman. “We were questioning last year whether 2007 was the start of a trou-bling trend. Now, I’m hoping that 2007 was an aberration.”

Last year, fatal police shootings claimed 68 officers, up from 54 in 2006, spurringfears that violent criminals were targeting police.

Ed Nowicki, executive director of the International Law Enforcement Educatorsand Trainers Association, says police still are encountering more aggressive, armedoffenders. He and other police officials attribute the dramatic reversal this year to thecyclical nature of violent crime and to increased training and awareness among offic-ers.

“Any time an officer is killed, it touches home,” says Nowicki, who survived sixshooting incidents as a Chicago cop. “Police are a lot more cautious and aware be-cause of last year.”

In response to the 2007 increase in officer shooting deaths, Boston Police Com-missioner Ed Davis says he ordered all patrol officers – the bulk of the department’s2,200-officer force – to participate in drills to test their responses on calls involvingarmed suspects.

“I don’t know of any department that isn’t now spending a significant amount ofmoney on training,” Davis says.

Floyd says last year’s “shocking” losses, which included six multiple slayings,forced officers, chiefs, unions and policymakers to focus on officer safety.

That includes renewed emphasis on protective items such as body armor, Nowickisays. He says about half of the estimated 900,000 officers in the nation still are notwearing bulletproof vests. Last year, 27% of the officers killed by gunfire were notwearing protective vests.

“Criminals are still arming themselves with high-powered weapons. But officers arepreparing themselves for that,” Floyd says.

Several agencies, including Miami, recently decided to arm officers with militaryassault weapons to counter the threat.

“I think the staggering numbers last year really grabbed people’s attention, espe-cially the officers on the street,” Floyd says.


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By Kevin Doogan

The Amber Alert was sounded and all available law enforcement officers and thegeneral public where informed of the abduction of young Reigh Boss. Officers and

civilians alike scrambled and strained to come together as a community to find this littlegirl that was abducted and whom we were all led to believe that her life was in gravedanger. Only to find out much later that the child’s life wasn’t in grave danger at all. Thechild was taken by her father, a liar and a cad but certainly not a killer or rapist. UntilClark Rockefeller, or what ever his true name is, crossed the Massachusetts border asbest as I can tell we couldn’t even arrest him. Custodial Kidnapping as we all know is anunarrestable misdemeanor. In truth it’s more of a civil complaint or probate violationthan a criminal offense. Here we were all duped into circling the wagons for little morethan a custody battle of the Rich & Famous. Amber Alerts are meant to be serious lifethreatening situations not for when a spouse tries to pay off an estranged mate and itbackfires on her. The Department of Justice outlines strict criteria for Amber Alerts andclearly this doesn’t meet the muster.

Clearly the following days Amber Alert was the real deal when a murderer, RodlynPetitbois abducted his children after murdering a woman and stabbing the mother of hischildren. That’s what the Amber Alert is supposed to be about! Fortunately the publicand law enforcement wasn’t distracted by the media sensation of a clown namedRockefeller and Petitbois was captured quickly and the children were safely returned.The Amber Alert System shouldn’t be whored out for some blueblood silver-spoon mul-timillionaire custody spat. It weakens the response and sends the wrong message to thepublic. The Amber Alert System isn’t about bank statements nor trust funds, it’s aboutchildren in true life and death danger, not custody battles. That’s why we have ProbateCourts, private investigators and lawyers.

Amber abuse

By Michele McPhee

It is tragic when any young man collapsesand dies when he has promise and poten-

tial – as Emmanuel College graduate DavidWoodman clearly possessed when, afterleading Boston Police on a foot chase, hecollapsed and then died 11 days later.

Still more tragic in this case however isthe finger-pointing at the police that imme-diately ensued within hours of Woodman’spassing.

These are the facts:On June 18, just before 1 a.m., David

Woodman, 22, was celebrating the CelticsNBA championship clincher near FenwayPark, an area that Boston police, college of-ficials, and City Hall have repeatedly calledoff limits to rowdy revelers after a sportswin. Woodman, in fact, was arrested afterthe Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2004 sohe was clearly familiar with the police re-sponse to the streets of Boston when fansstart rioting.

Cops approached him because he had anopen container of alcohol. He turned andfled. When the cops tried to cuff him, Bos-ton Police Patrolman’s Association lawyerTom Dreschler says, Woodman latched hisfingers onto a chain-link fence to resist ar-rest.

After he was on the ground, cops noticedhe was in medical distress.

“They took his handcuffs off and offic-ers immediately began to administer CPR,’’BPD Commissioner Ed Davis told me lastweek. Another cop sprinted 400 yards toflag down a private ambulance that rushedWoodman to Beth Israel Medical Centerwhere he was pronounced dead last week.

“There is no evidence that excessiveforce was used,’’ said Davis.

But Woodman’s parents, and grantedthey are grieving, immediately began toheap blame on the police officers. Theynever mentioned the fact that their son had

been arrested for similar behavior in thepast. They never wondered aloud what agrown man, a college graduate, was doingdrinking in the middle of a city street andfighting with the cops. They never apolo-gized to Boston taxpayers who consistentlyhave to pick up the bill to pay for policeovertime and cleanup costs after one of oursports dynasties bring home the gold.

Now cops who were sweating in riotgear, on the streets of Boston doing theirjobs – not celebrating the Celtics first winin 22 years with their friends and family –are being subjected to an investigation.That’s right. Davis announced last week thatformer United States Attorney DonaldStern “review the facts and circumstancesof the case.”

That is an appalling development, espe-cially when you consider that at least sixpolice officers were assaulted on the nightWoodman was arrested. Cops werepunched, pushed, kicked, spat on, hit withhurled bottles. After the Red Sox WorldSeries win, a state trooper had his fronttooth knocked out. A BPD cop was kickedin the groin. Police horses were cut byflying glass.

What ever happened to personal respon-sibility? Why is it that Woodman’s parentsare being allowed to malign hardworkingBoston cops with insinuations of wrongdo-ing and no one says to them, ‘why was yourson acting like a knucklehead?’

Again no parent should have to bury achild. But at the same time it’s any wonderthe Boston Police Department is scraping thebottom of the barrel for new recruits and hav-ing trouble keeping them in the academy.

It’s hard to keep morale up when copstry to save a man’s life by administeringCPR and flagging down an ambulance andthen find themselves under investigation.

(Michele McPhee is an Author, Journalistfor the Boston Metro and WTKK radio host.)

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Agroup of American cyclists has apologized to Beijing Olympic organizers afterarriving in China’s capital wearing face masks. Michael Friedman, Sarah Ham-

mer, Bobby Lea and Jennie Reed released a statement Wednesday, a day after theycaused a stir by showing up in the protective gear.

“The wearing of protective masks upon our arrival into Beijing was strictly aprecautionary measure we as athletes chose to take, and was in no way meant toserve as an environmental or political statement,” the athletes said. “We deeplyregret the nature of our choices. Our decision was not intended to insult BOCOGor countless others who have put forth a tremendous amount of effort to improvethe air quality in Beijing.” – Associated Press, 8/5/08.

The Chinese not only have a horrific human rights’ record, but a polluted-air one aswell. But apparently foreign athletes are supposed to let their lungs burn and die ratherthan risk offending the commies’ trashing of their own environment. How rude of themto consider taking precautions for their health in anticipation of physically strenuousactivities over the next few weeks.

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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has said that improving health services is themain challenge to fighting HIV/AIDS in Africa, not a lack of money.

In a BBC interview, Mr. Clinton said his foundation had therefore been focusingmore and more on cost-effective ways to improve national health systems.

He also said encouraging monogamy should be an important part of the fightagainst HIV/AIDS. – BBC, 8/4/08.

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Hillary Clinton supporters will march through Denver during the DemocraticNational Convention to show appreciation for the New York senator’s his-

toric primary run and urge the party to place her name in nomination.– Rocky Mountain News, 8/4/08.

Barack Obama’s supporters are creepy in the degree to which they elevate him toa Messianic figure and turn his convention center rallies into super-churches, so youhave to give credit to the Clinton supporters; even now, they never fail to make theDemocrats hilarious.

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Garbage collectors would inspect San Francisco residents’ trash to make sure pizzacrusts aren’t mixed in with chip bags or wine bottles under a proposal by Mayor

Gavin Newsom.And if residents or businesses don’t separate the coffee grounds from the news-

papers, they would face fines of up to $1,000 and eventually could have theirgarbage service stopped. – San Francisco Gate, 8/4/08

How this could be practically implemented without a massive invasion of privacyand huge tax increase is a mystery, although both of those things aren’t exactly aproblem with the Greenshirts of San Francisco if it suits them. There, it makes perfectsense and doesn’t seem at all unusual to dig through the trash to sort it into differentcategories, and then yell at people about how throwing rotten fruit and moldy bread inthe same trash bin will herald in the End Times.

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Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters says a Springfield Township man,accused of running an “underwear con” to get near young children, is a

predator who deserves to be locked up for a “very long time because he willcontinue to prey upon young children unless he is removed from the commu-nity”… Hawkins allegedly conned parents into thinking their children were par-ticipating in an “underwear survey” in order to get close to them for sexual con-tact. – Local 12 News, Cincinnati, 8/3/08

Okay, parents? I know he must have seemed very professional, but that naggingsuspicion that the man who wants to study children’s underwear may have ill inten-tions? Perhaps you should listen to that.

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Off-duty cop helps bust gun-toting trio at barBy Jessica Van Sack, Boston Herald

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Officer Peter Fontanez just wanted tograb an after-work drink with his bud-

dies. But his night took a dramatic turn when

Boston Police officer Peter Fontanez stands in front of TheBoyne Pub on Western Avenue yesterday, hours after hehelped arrest three men inside.

he noticed the gun tucked under a patron’sshirt – and helped arrest a notorious trio withthree loaded handguns, police said.Fontanez, 46, is a 23-year veteran of theforce and a drug unit officer assigned to

District A-7 in East Bos-ton. He had already madethree arrests when he ar-rived at The Boyne Pub, alocal watering hole onWestern Avenue in Brigh-ton. It was shortly before1:20 a.m. when Fontanezsaw a man watch twowomen leave the bar andinexplicably pull up hisshirt, flashing the end of agun at the women, authori-ties allege. Fontanezwasn’t sure the womensaw the bizarre gesture.“I’m thinking worst-casescenario – what if they’replanning to shoot some-body,” Fontanez said, whosaid he was angered thatthe man was acting so “brazenly.” So heducked into the kitchen area and called thesupervisor at District D-14 in Brighton, re-questing plainclothes cops to surround thesuspects.

Once inside, the cops noticed the bulgeunder the suspect’s shirt, shouted “Police!”and ordered him to put down his beer, po-lice said. “That’s not mine; I’m holding itfor someone else,” the suspect said, accord-ing to a police report. The officers struggledto tackle the suspects, the report states. Copsallegedly found two loaded guns stashed ina bathroom garbage and pulled a third off asuspect’s waistband. Two of the three guns

seized were found cocked, or ready to fire,police said. “It was a tremendous arrest ofvery significant figures,” said District D-14 Capt. Frank Mancini. Dennis Sena,29, of Brighton was held on $150,000 bailon a variety of weapons charges, said JakeWark, spokesman for the Suffolk CountyDistrict Attorney’s Office. Maurice Coates,30, of Brookline was held on $50,000 bailon charges of disorderly conduct and resist-ing arrest. Gontrand Germain, 31, of HydePark was also held on $50,000 bail on sev-eral weapons charges.

Said Mancini, “Hopefully they will bespending some time in the clink.”

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The Gospel According to Barack ObamaBy Patrick Carnell,

Canisius College, Buffalo, NY

Hear, O Israel, this testimony, and re-joice, for the Lightbringer, who is

called Obama, walks now among us, totake his rightful throne upon the nationsof the world. It has come to pass in thefinal year of the rule of Jorge the Younger(the Foolish) of the tribe of the bush, ofthe people of the tusk, who had laid wasteto the lands of the Arabs, that He has ven-tured forth to bring light unto this world,so that all may know Him and worshipHim to a creepy degree, as do His dis-ciples, the tribe known as Media. Theyhave heard His words, and never, ever, evercease to marvel at them, saying, “Who isHe who possesses the audacity to hopefor change, who will save humanity andchange the very fabric of reality withnaught but a smile and a sly wink?” Theywent to battle with His blessing, and de-feated the Witch-Queen Hillary, some-times-consort to the deposed King Will-iam the Lecherous, and her barbarian Ap-palachian hordes. He rode victorious toJerusalem, seated upon an ass, while theMedia lay palms before Him, singingHosannas and Hope-Change-Believe-Yes-we-can ad nauseum. There, theLightbringer did nothing more than hopefor change, and the Israelites and theBlood-Drinkers of Gaza laid down theirarms, and lived in peace forever. Andwherever He went, the Lightbringer,

purely by His presence and the invocationof His most holy name, brought peace; ty-rants and terrorists alike cried aloud for joy,and beat their swords to plowshares and nuclearweapons into playground equipment.

Many great and wonderful things hap-pened at the Lightbringer’s will. By His mere

breath, global temperatures dropped (in spiteof never having actually risen in the firstplace), and the Prophet Algore rejoiced. TheLightbringer declared his plan for hopechange for the fifty-seven states of the Uni-fied Empire, although the Empire had butfifty. But lo, by His words alone, seven states

arose from nothingness, for it wasprophesized, “Nothing is impossible inHim; He needs only to say, ‘be,’ and it be-comes, for the tribe of Media will ensureit.” The uninsured sick were cured, and gasprices and interest rates fell as manna fromheaven, because the Lightbringer had de-clared it. His many enemies, led by the oneknown only as the Bitter Old Man, soughtto challenge the Lightbringer, and point outthe incredible number of inconsistencies,flaws, and outright lies told by Him and Hisdisciples, as well as His complete lack ofmeaningful experience (having not yet com-pleted even one term in His divinely givenoffice), unbearable arrogance and presump-tuousness, and His Hillary-esque spouse.But their efforts were for naught, as theLightbringer was declared infallible andunassailable by those who heard Him andbelieved, and those who questioned His di-vine nature were maligned as racists, her-etics, racists, shills, and racists. For, al-though He had not even yet emerged victo-rious, and was even placed behind the Bit-ter Old Man on nine of fourteen issues bythe census-takers of Rasmussen, as far asHe and His faithful were concerned, He hadalready ascended to the Father, hoisted aloftby a host of Cherubim, as the Principali-ties, Archangels, Democrats, and six-winged Seraphim sang His praises forever-more.

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PDS Director John Zuccaro ElectedPresident of SENA Local 9158

John Zuccaro, director of the BPD’s paid detailing billing unit, has been electedPresident of SENA (Service Employees of North America) Local 9158 effec-

tive September 2, 2008. SENA 9158 represents about 720 members, mostly withinthe City of Boston, but also with members in the towns of Orleans and Norton. Theelection was held in accordance with the constitution of the United SteelworkersUnion.

John has worked with the BPPA to resolve a wide variety of detail issues andproblems over the last two decades. He represents the very essence of what a goodmanager should be – always looking to work with the unions and find solutionsinstead of being a perpetual roadblock. Those who remember waiting months andmonths to be paid for details can thank John for the tremendous efforts he’s madetowards prompt payment.

The BPPA congratulates John Zuccaro, but more importantly congratulatesSENA Local 9158 members for their wise choice in leadership.

Probationary police officer hasno property interest in the jobDennis Walsh began work as a police

officer with the Suffolk County, NewYork Police Department on August 29,2005. Walsh signed an “acceptance of ap-pointment” at the time of his hire, a docu-ment which stated that “this appointmentshall be for a probationary term of 18months.”

The County had not completed its back-ground investigation of Walsh at the timehe was hired. It subsequently determinedthat Walsh was the subject of a criminal in-vestigation by a police agency in Califor-nia in which he was accused of extortionand harassment of a woman, an investiga-tion that stemmed from Walsh’s threaten-ing use of a sexual videotape Walsh did notdisclose the investigation on his applicationfor employment.

The Department began an investigationof Walsh into the failure to disclose. Dur-ing the investigation, Walsh resigned. Walshsubsequently filed a federal court lawsuitalleging he was compelled to resign, andthat he had a property interest in his job ofwhich he was deprived without due process.

A federal court dismissed Walsh’s law-suit. The Court found that for Walsh to have

a property right to the job that compelleddue process, he had to have a right that “se-cured certain benefits and that supportedclaims of entitlement to those benefits. Prop-erty interests arise in the employment con-text only where the employer is barred,whether by statute or contract, from termi-nating (or not renewing) the employmentrelationship without cause. Thus, in orderto establish a federal procedural due pro-cess claim, the plaintiff must first establishthat he possesses a property right in his con-tinued employment.”

The Court found that it was well-settledin New York that probationary employeeshad no property rights in their positions andcould be “lawfully discharged without ahearing and without any specified reason.Many courts have found police officers insituations similar to Walsh to be probation-ary employees not subject to the same dueprocess protection as permanent employ-ees. Walsh’s claim for violation of due pro-cess cannot survive.”

Walsh v. Suffolk County Police Depart-ment, 2008 WL 1991118 (E.D. N.Y. 2008).

(Courtesy of the Public Safety LaborNews, July 2008.)

More on police detailsBy Jim Barry,

BPPA Legislative Agent

The Deval Patrick administration con-tinues to work on the regulations and

guidelines to decide how and when policedetails or flaggers might be used on roadsunder state jurisdiction. According to thelaw that authorizes these regulations, Bos-ton Police details, (which are under localauthority by ordinance and our collectivebargaining agreement) will not be affectedby these changes. Even with these regula-tions having little to no impact on BPD de-tail work the BPPA is still lending its politi-cal support for our brother police unions,as these regulations are developed.

The Nutty Professor

One would think replacing any policeofficer with a more expensive flagger

wouldn’t make sense. But the Nutty Pro-

fessor of Suffolk University, David Tuerck,seems to not mind that. He is almost shrillin his rabid calls for police detail replace-ment. He publicly called on GovernorPatrick to repeal Chapter 150E and scrapthe prevailing wage laws. He said if theydidn’t repeal them then the regulations wereworthless. The Patrick administration hadno intention of doing either. Police detailsare here and never going away The replace-ment costs don’t add up. Prevailing wage is$37.45 per hour for a flagger. Do that math!Now add into the equation the lack of anydriving abilities or civilities for the major-ity of Massachusetts drivers. Police detailsare not going away no matter how shrillTuerck becomes.

Massport

The clock ran out on the concurrentjurisdiction at Massport buildings in the

Legislative ReportLegislative Report

Seaport District that both the BPPA andMayor Menino jointly were working sohard on. Assurances of it getting done werereceived right up to thelast minute of the lastday. Speaker DiMasisent word that the billwould be done and time went by withoutthe action that was needed by him to get itdone. This does not end the effort, it renews

it. We shall assist the Mayor with his effortto grant concurrent to BPD on buildingswithin the City of Boston owned by

Massport. Massporthasn’t the greatestmanagement recordon public safety hav-

ing settled a case in East Boston for almost$1 million. How much more will they payto settle on cases?

Big Brother is not only watching,but he’s also videotaping(continued from page B5)

when doing so might put in question a stopor search which might embarrass a fellowofficer. It requires no strength of characterto speak the truth when it does not hurt.”City of Cambridge v. Civil Service Com-mission, 43 Mass. App. Ct. 300, 303 (1997).Stated another way by our Supreme Judi-cial Court, “police officers themselves mustobey the law and be truthful in all of theirofficial dealings, or they may face termina-tion.” City of Boston v. Boston PolicePatrolmen’s Association, 443, Mass. 813,821 (2005). These rules are clear: screwingup will get you in trouble, but a proven al-legation of lying about it can get you fired.We know everyone does their best to avoidthese types of allegations. If you act likeyou are being videotaped, you hopefullywill not violate the first part of the rule. If

you act like you have been videotaped, youdefinitely should not violate the second part.Mistakes will inevitably happen to even themost conscientious and well-intentionedpolice officers. If a mistake results, the onlyremedy is to invoke your rights or to give atruthful statement to the best of yourmemory and recollection. Lying about themistake will only compound problems, par-ticularly if a videotape surfaces to provesomething contrary to what you wrote orsaid. A search of YouTube for the term “po-lice brutality” I did on August 7, 2008brought up 5,110 hits. Please don’t becomenumber 5,111.

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A brief history of theAmerican bum:

How a social problem caused by liberalsgot dumped on the police

By Pax Centurion Professor EmeritusSemaj L’Lenrac,

University of Shetland Street

OF THE MANY ENIGMAS CON-FRONTING THE POLICE in today’s

society, the complexities related to residen-tially-challenged citizens are among themost vexing. (Or, to put it in the vernacu-lar, bums and all of the problems they causeis another bag of sh** that’s been dumpedon the cops.) In order for the law enforce-ment professional to even begin to confrontthis dilemma, one must have at least a rudi-mentary understanding of how the policecame to inherit this conundrum in the be-ginning.

Therefore, as a service to the aspiring,fresh-faced, eager, young police recruitswho will be soon be exiting our PoliceAcademy, filled with a “can-do” spirit anda desire to solve long-standing and oftenintractable social problems, the award-win-ning Pax Centurion presents this HIS-TORY OF THE AMERICAN BUM. Wehope that this unexpurgated historical tome,compiled with the benefit of hundreds ofyears of largely anecdotal police experi-ences, will assist the fledgling officer viathe interdiction of practical knowledge com-bined with the empirical data compiled byour own staff of professional researchers.(trans: Before you young idiots go out thereand get yourselves hurt, listen to experiencedofficers who perform actual police work.)

Chapter One: ColonialBums in Early America

The available historical record informsus that the first bum to arrive in the New

World was one Yuseless Mendicant, whoarrived on His Majesties’ Ship HMS Sloth-ful in Boston around 1635 and took up resi-dence on the very first park bench in Bos-ton Common. Of him, it is written in thejournals of the time: “Verily, verily, yeYuseless Mendicant doth not labor butsleepeth and he doth not contribute butliveth off the labors of others. He drinkethof the fermented grapes and causeth thewatchmen to picketh his sorry behind fromoff the groundeth on which he hath vomitethand urinateth upon his own self.” (Loosetranslation from the olde English) To hiscredit, Reverend Cotton Mather is reportedto have praised Yuseless Mendicant for“keeping the Sabbath day holy by not work-ing”, but then again, Yuseless kept every dayof the week holy by not working. There arethose who swear that Mendicant’s ghost,and/or his direct descendants, continue tooccupy park benches on the Boston Com-mon to this very day, although this cannotbe independently verified.

Bums in AmericaUntil the 1960’s

Bums in America were largely invisibleduring America’s formative centuries,

largely due to vagrancy laws which discour-aged widespread bummery from spreading.One could be arrested for not being able toshow an established address or means ofsupporting oneself. Sleeping on parkbenches or occupying sidewalks seekingalms was likely to be met with a good rapfrom a policeman’s baton or a kick in thebehind. Urinating in public and publicdrunkenness were treated as criminal of-fenses. Anti-social conduct masqueradingas various forms of victimhood was simplynot tolerated. “Poverty” was not equatedwith vagrancy; being poor meant not beingable to find an adequate means of support-ing oneself and one’s family; there was noshame in being “poor” as long as one de-sired to work and tried their hardest to im-prove themselves. This was distinguishedfrom common bummery, which impliedthen, as now, that the offender simply wouldnot work not matter how many opportuni-ties were placed in front of him.

Bums From the 1960’sto the Present Day

Starting in the free-wheeling 1960’s,bums were transformed into “victims”

of society. It was no longer the individual’sfault that one refused to work or passed outdrunk in public, it was the fault of the op-pressive capitalistic system which causedsuch conduct. Beginning with bum-authorssuch as Jack Kerouac, bums were roman-ticized as somehow “rebelling” againstmodern society, expressing their free willby refusing to become productive membersof society. Bums were transformed into themore romantic, chic “hoboes”. Publicdrunkenness, vagrancy and other social-or-der offenses were decriminalized, often byidealistic liberals living in affluent commu-nities (except of course, when the offend-ing bums found their way to those very af-fluent communities, in which case thephony liberals immediately called the po-lice to remove the bums from despoilingtheir property values.) Bums were victimsas long as they remained someone else’sproblem. And then came Michael StanleyDukakis…

In the 1970’s and 80’s, Brookline liberalM. Stanley Dukakis and other windbag-phony liberals decided that it would be agood idea to “de-institutionalize” much ofthe mentally ill population, releasing themto “the community” (which did not includeBrookline or anywhere near Mike andKitty’s house) where they would be placedin residential settings instead of keepingthem in secure surroundings. This, ofcourse, helped to markedly increase thenumbers of individuals living on our streetsand in our parks for the police to deal with,not to mention the dangers of dealing withmentally-ill people in split-second situationsrequiring immediate action by police.



Veterans’ Corner: Pat Rose, C-11

Life on the lake is great, but newsfrom the radio drives me nuts

Life is great! Just sitting here at CrystalLake in Maine, taking some needed,

(and I might add warranted), rest and recu-peration. Fishing pole in the water and be-lieve it or not, actually reeling in some nicelarge mouth bass, (a special thanks to ChrisRoss,YVSF, for some tips on the lake, younever know who you’re going to run intowhen fishing). Well, it has been raining likecrazy and some people would think this abad thing, however, I’ll take a rainy day inMaine over a sunny day in Boston any time!Everyone should be able to leave their caresand woes behind and do a little fishing oncein a while, it not only relaxes the body butis food for the soul.

So don’t ya figure I make the mistake ofturning on a portable radio while I cast awaythe hours and what do I hear, yup, as pre-dicted by me back in the April PAX, theRussians are trying to flex their muscles andhave decided to show the world that theyare no shrinking violet and will wipe outthe sovereign nation of Georgia to prove it,if necessary. They are busy sinking shipsand bombing villages while they claim theyare only protecting their own. Their tanksare rumbling through the country side andthe Central Asian oil pipe line has been shutdown visa vie Russian bombs. This will bestep one in the Russian plan to get back to‘Super Power’ status, put a strangle hold onoil and gas to Europe, other than Russiandelivered and will prove to be a great placeto work the bugs out on their new militaryhardware. As if we as a country aren’t deal-ing with enough.

But, I gotta give the ‘Ruskies’ credit, thewhole world was focused on the Olympics.The American Military is too busy playingpolitics with the current Iraqi governmentinstead of DIRECTING IT, and bendingover to the Democratically controlled Con-gress.

The President is in China, the AmericanDemocratic hopeful was running around theworld playing President with his taxpayer-expensed visits to the middle east and else-where, oh and let’s not forget planning hisvacation with important promises to go‘body surfing’! Rome is burning and all thesupposed experts are tuning their respec-tive violins! The only one with his eye onthe proverbial ball is the Republican hope-ful John McCain. I know that I promisednot to endorse anyone under the guise ofthe “Veteran’s Corner,” however, this issueis now and now is when we have to see whatis real and what is an image. When Sena-tor Hillary Clinton was still a viable can-didate for the Democratic Party, she ham-mered away at the “lack of experience” heldby Senator Barack Obama. Every timeshe brought up the notion of handling a cri-sis, she stated that it would take a Presidentwith experience, experience in foreign af-fairs, experience in dealing with our en-emies, experience in holding the line and

sometimes making unpopular decisions,experience in politics and life itself! TheObama camp claimed that He held plentyof experience and surrounded Himself withliterally hundreds of foreign affairs experts,(His claims and statements, not mine). Wellthe bell rang, and no one showed up! Roundone is over, round two is over and we areentering round three and still NO Obama,unless of course you want to attribute a fool-ish statement that called for “restraint” and“calm”. I’m sure the woman and children,fallen by the Russian bombs, tanks andships, the cannon fodder left under the Rus-sian Boots that have split a Sovereign Na-tion in half, appreciate Mr. Obama’s call for“calm and restraint”. I’ll be the first to ad-mit that the man has charisma, some greatspeech writers, a terrific choreographed rou-tine and a great persona, however He hasNO experience and worse than that Hedoesn’t appear to have a clue! The mans’only experience in world affairs is that He’sa junior Senator and spent a tour in his statelegislature. The bottom line is He is NOTqualified to be our Commander and Chief.Senator John McCain, on the other hand, isolder, (an attribute not a detriment), experi-enced in world affairs, foreign and domes-tic, experienced in military affairs, and hasdecades of political background and totallyunderstands the nature of our own govern-ment and peoples, (a necessary experienceto lead this complex Nation). Senator

McCain, even though running a campaign,has kept his eye on the ball. He was theONLY one to immediately recognize whatwas happening in the sovereign Nation ofGeorgia. Senator McCain immediately de-nounce the Russians, from the seat of ourCongress, He immediately Demanded anemergency meeting of NATO and furtherdemanded immediate aid to the country ofGeorgia. That my friends is how a Presi-dent deals with an international crisis. Hedoesn’t issue willy nilly statements askingfor “calm” and or “restraint”, He doesn’tcontinue with his vacation plans, He actsand acts decisively with immediacy. JohnMcCain not only passed the litmus test forhandling a crisis he aced it! Senator Obamadidn’t make the grade and that my friendsis a fact! So please, for our country’s sake,for our own well being keep this lesson inmind in November. This couldn’t have beena better scenario to test what one’s responsewill be in an international crisis that will nodoubt effect us in the long run.

VETERANS EDUCATION OPPOR-TUNITIES: After more than ten years oflobbying Congress, the VFW has finallyrealized one of its’ top legislative goals.President George W. Bush signed the NewGI Bill into law on June 30th, 2008. Origi-nally introduced by Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) back in January 2007 as the post 9/11Veteran’s Educational Assistance Act, Itprovides college funding for honorably dis-

charged veterans including National Guardand Reservists who serve three years ofactive duty after 9/11/01. The new GI Billcovers the full cost of attendin a four-yearin state, public college, plus stipends for liv-ing expenses and books. For veterans ac-cepted into private universities, the new leg-islation establishes dollar for dollar tuitionmatch at those schools that choose to par-ticipate in the program. Senator Webb stated“This bill properly responded to the needsof those who answered the call of duty toour country, those who moved toward thesound of guns, often at great sacrifice. Thereis no politics here, this is about taking careof the people who have taken care of us!”(Too bad more people didn’t think and actas Senator Webb) Thank You Senator Webb,you are a man of conviction!

ELECTION RESULTS: In accordancewith our VFW Post By-Laws, ExecutiveBoard elections were held on the secondTuesday in July, (the 8th). The followingpersons were either elected or appointed inaccordance with the By-Laws: JorgeCastro, President; Chris Colby,Vice Presi-dent; Marty Columbo, Clerk & Treasurer;Patrick Rose, Trustee; FrankDeClements, Member; George Murray,Trustee; Brendan McCarthy, Trustee;‘Doc’ Spraig, Member; and MattMcGrath, Judge Advocate. Congratula-tions to all elected officials.



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Our Annual Military Ball will be heldon September 6th, from 7:00pm til midnight.This will be a casual dress affair with mu-sic and a buffet all for $5.00. This year,Commander Brendan McCarthy will behonoring past Commanders of the post, itshould be a lot of fun with good food andmusic, on the cheap, come on down andhave some fun.

On September 19th the Post will be host-ing a 70’s-80’s-90’s night. For $10.00 youget to enjoy a hot and cold buffet and dancethe night away to some of your favoritemusic, 7:00 pm ’til midnight (or wheneveryou decide).

REMINDER: VFW Post meetings areheld on the third Monday of each month inthe upper hall at 1930 hours. The Board ofDirectors meets at 1800 hours downstairs.The VFW meeting is open to all members,and we encourage active participation. TheBoard of Directors conducts its’ annual openmeeting on the 2nd Tuesday in July, (per theby-laws). Once again let me offer an invita-tion to visit the completely remodeled Post,inside and out. A reminder that inside ofthe post is SMOKE FREE as of June 1st.news on the radio drives me nuts Enjoy acheap, cold ‘one’ with some old friends, ormake some new friends. Enjoy the gametables, electronic game machine or lottery.The all new patio area is open for horseshoes, card play or just hang out in the freshair in the PRIVATE FENCED IN PATIO toenjoy a cigarette (if you’re a smoker) or acold one. The Post is open seven days aweek from 1500 hours ‘til closing around0200 hours. If you are behind on your dues,come on down and we’ll figure somethingout. If you are still not a member, what areyou waiting for? The membership cost isonly $30.00 per year. You don’t have to bea Veteran to be a member.

As always, please be safe out there!Oh, and for those who didn’t believe me,

look at one of the fish that didn’t get awayon the previous page!

Life on the lake is great,but news on the radio drives me nuts(continued from page B18)

When in England, at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by

the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plansfor Iraq were just an example of “empirebuilding” by George W. Bush.

He answered by saying, ‘Over the years,the United States has sent many of its fineyoung men and women into great peril tofight for freedom beyond our borders. Theonly amount of land we have ever askedfor in return is enough to bury those thatdid not return.’

You could have heard a pin drop.� � � � �

There was a conference in France wherea number of international engineers

were taking part, including French andAmerican. During a break, one of theFrench engineers came back into the roomsaying “Have you heard the latest dumbstunt Bush has done? He has sent an air-craft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunamivictims. What does he intended to do, bombthem?”

A Boeing engineer stood up and re-plied quietly: “Our carriers have threehospitals on board that can treat severalhundred people; they are nuclear poweredand can supply emergency electricalpower to shore facilities; they have threecafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000people three meals a day, they can pro-duce several thousand gallons of freshwater from sea water each day, and theycarry half a dozen helicopters for use intransporting victims and injured to and

You could’ve heard a pin drop!from their flight deck. We have eleven suchships; how many does France have?”


AU.S. Navy Admiral was attending anaval conference that included Ad-

mirals from the U.S., English, Canadian,Australian and French Navies. At a cock-tail reception, he found himself standingwith a large group of Officers thatincluded personnel from most ofthose countries.

Everyone was chatting away in En-glish as they sipped their drinks, but aFrench admiral suddenly complainedthat, whereas Europeans learn manylanguages, Americans learn only En-glish.’ He then asked, “Why is it thatwe always have to speak English inthese conferences, rather than speak-ing French?”

Without hesitating, the AmericanAdmiral replied “Maybe it’s becausethe Brits, Canadians, Aussies andAmericans arranged it so you wouldn’thave to speak German.’


And this story fits inwith the above…

Robert Whiting, an elderly gentle-man of 83, arrived in Paris by

plane. At French Customs, he took afew minutes to locate his passport in hiscarry-on.

“You have been to France before, mon-sieur?” the customs officer asked sarcasti-cally.

Mr. Whiting admitted that he had beento France previously.

Then you should know enough to haveyour passport ready.’

The American said, “The last time I washere, I didn’t have to show it.

“Impossible. Americans always have toshow your passports on arrival in France!”

The American senior gave the French-man a long hard look. Then he quietly ex-plained, “Well, when I came ashore atOmaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to helpliberate this country, I couldn’t find a singleFrenchmen to show a passport to.”

You could have heard a pin drop.

You could’ve heard a pin drop.


I’m running for President of the USA. Ineed your vote!!I’VE DECIDED TO BECOME A

WRITE-IN CANDIDATE.HERE IS MY PLATFORM:(1) Press 1 for English is immediately

banned. English is the official lan-guage. Speak it or wait at the borderuntil you can.

(2) We will immediately go into a two-year isolationist posture to straightenout the country’s attitude. NO imports,no exports. We will use the ‘WalMart’policy: /’If we ain’t got it, you don’tneed it.’/

(3) When imports are allowed, there willbe a 100% import tax on it.

(4) All former military personnel will berequired to man one of our many ob-servation towers on the southern bor-der. (Six month tour) They will beunder strict orders not to fire onSOUTHBOUND aliens.

(5) Social Security will immediately re-turn to its original state. If you didn’tput nuttin’ in, you ain’t getting’ nuttin’out. Neither the president nor any otherpolitician will be able to touch it everagain.

(6) Welfare – Checks will be handed outon Fridays at the end of the 40 hourschool week with a passing grade andthe successful completion of urinaly-sis.

(7) Professional Athletes – Steroids – The

Can I count on your vote?

FIRST time you check positive youwill be banned for life.

(8) Crime – We will adopt the Turkishmethod: The first time you steal, youlose your right hand. There will be nomore life sentences — if you are con-victed of a Capitol Offense, you willbe put to death by the same methodyou chose for your victim, gun, knife,strangulation, etc.

(9) One export will be allowed - Wheat –The world needs to eat. A bushel of

wheat will be the exact price of a bar-rel of oil.

(10) All foreign aid using American tax-payer money will immediately cease,and the saved money will pay off thenational debt and ultimately lowertaxes. When disasters occur aroundthe world, we’ll ask the Americanpeople if they want to donate to adisaster fund, and each citizen canmake the decision whether it’s aworthy cause.

(11) The Pledge of Allegiance will be saidevery day at school and every day inCongress – right after a prayer to God.

(12) The National Anthem will be playedat all appropriate ceremonies, sport-ing events, outings, etc. Sorry if Istepped on anyone’s toes, but a votefor me will get you better than whatyou’re likely to get otherwise.

Thanks for listening, and remember towrite in my name on the ballot in Novem-ber!


Union UnityBy Kevin Doogan

In the upcoming months there will be alot of talk, rumor and exaggerations re-

garding any exploration into the uniting ofthe police unions.

I, for one, am wide-open and excitedabout the possible opportunity to unite allthe unions. The uniting of the unions doesn’tmean that any union, whether large or smallis willing to prostrate themselves and theirmembership upon the altar of another bar-gaining unit. Any merger or combining ofthe unions would require long, hard thoughtand compromise by all parties.

No Union, Association, Society nor Fed-

eration can be expected to give up their in-dividuality and be left to scramble for thetable scraps of another bargaining unit, andto suggest such a thing is just asinine.

For years now the BPPA has worked handand hand with the bargaining units of EMSand the Cadets without incident. It is this typeof model I look forward to exploring, unionsthat can keep their individual identity but reapthe benefits of a peaceful, nurturing, mutuallyprosperous partnership. A partnership,where all bargaining units can bargain to-gether in unity for the greater good of all.

There will surely be talk of smaller bar-gaining units being short-changed and left

behind. Some will throw gas on the old firesof the past. But times have changed, unionshave changed and I believe we have alllearned from the triumphs and failures ofour union forefathers.

The benefits of uniting the unions, I be-lieve far outweigh the possible negatives.Those who stand adamant against the ex-ploration of building a stronger united unionare misinformed ax-grinders that are appar-ently stuck in the past.

As with any partnership, a merger has tobe mutually satisfying and beneficial. Surelythe complaint of one bargaining unit doinganother’s work would immediately cease.

If we’re all under the same roof there is nobenefit to encroach another’s work space.

For decades the fire department has en-joyed the benefits of a united work force,while we in the police department have beendivided and on occasion conquered. As timehas moved on, the leverages of unions hasweakened across this country, this fact isundeniable. We need to leave no stoneunturned in our quest to represent our mem-berships to the best of our abilities.

Where there is Unity there is Strength,when people put the greater good of all be-fore their quest for personal titles and ful-filling grudges everyone wins.

Officer reporting crime to Supervisornot protected by First Amendment

Jerry Sillers was a police officer withthe City of Everman, Texas. In a federal

court lawsuit, Sillers alleged that during late2006 and early 2007, he witnessed unlaw-ful acts committed by his fellow police of-ficers against other citizens. Sillers claimedthat he was terminated from employmentafter he relayed his concerns over theseacts to his supervising sergeants and theChief of Police. Sillers’ lawsuit contendedthat his reports to his supervisors wereprotected as whistle-blowing speech un-der the First Amendment, and that theCity violated his free speech rights byterminating him.

Applying the dictates of the SupremeCourt’s decision in Garcetti v. Ceballos, a

federal court rejected Sillers’ lawsuit. TheCourt found that “the cases are consistentin holding that a public employee who raisesconcerns related to his job function up hischain of command does so as part of his

official duties and not as protected speech.It is evident that Sillers made the statementsin question in the course of performing hisduties as a police officer. His statementsreflected his knowledge of acts committedby his fellow officers, knowledge that heobtained through his duties as a police of-ficer, and significantly, the statements wereall made internally, up his chain of com-mand, rather than to outside individuals orentities. Sillers’ speech was made pursuantto his official duties and is therefore not pro-tected First Amendment speech.”

Sillers v. City of Everman, Texas, 2008WL2222236 (N.D. Tex. 2008).

Note: In a similar case, Barrows v. Cityof Fort Smith, Arkansas, 2008 (W.D. Ark.2008), the Court found unprotected by theFirst Amendment speech by a police officerwho was in charge of his Department’sAdministrative Services Division where theofficer was terminated after he expressedconcerns to the City Administrator regard-ing a new program that was potentiallywasteful of public funds and could violatestate law. The Court found that these re-marks were made as part of his job respon-sibilities, and thus were unprotected.


Employer allowed to offsetdisability payments by workers’

compensation benefitsDarryl Brown and Martin Whitfield

were injured in the line of duty as of-ficers of Los Angeles Police Department.They both applied for benefits underLAPD’s disability retirement pension,which contains an offset: Duty disabilitypayments are reduced by the amount of anyworkers’ compensation award the officerreceives for the disabling injury. Brown andWhitfield sued the City, alleging that theoffset violated their rights under the Ameri-cans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

A federal appeals court rejected the law-suit The Court began by describing the twodifferent retirement systems available toLAPD officers. The first, a service pension,is based on length of service and age. Thesecond, a disability pension, is availableonly to officers who have sustained a work-related injury and whom the LAPD cannotreasonably accommodate in employment.The service pensions are funded in part byemployee contributions, the disability pen-sions are funded exclusively by the City.Officers disabled after an on-the-job injurywho are eligible for a service pension canchoose either pension. No offset results ifthe injured officer elects the service pen-sion.

In the Court’s view, this structure de-

feated Brown and Whitfield’s ADA claim:“The City’s police pensions are nondis-criminatory. In addition to the disability re-tirement pension, the City also provides theseniority-based service pension, which isnot subject to any offset for workers’ com-pensation and which is clearly distinct fromthe disability pension program as evidencedby the different funding mechanisms. TheCity provides two separate pension pro-grams to officers with disabilities. The twoprograms need not provide identical ben-efits.

“The offset does not treat disabled offic-ers differently or create disproportionateburdens because of the nature of their limi-tations or even their status as individualswith disabilities. It simply limits the typeof compensation for work-related injuriesthat happens to be available only to indi-viduals who are disabled. Most importantly,the limitation merely pertains to the causeof the injury – that is, whether it was suffi-ciently work-related that the officer receivesworkers’ compensation. This is not discrimi-nation by reason of disability.”

Brown v. City of Los Angeles, 2008 WL962057 (9th Cir. 2008).


It is estimated anecdotally by many ex-perienced police officers that today’s home-less population can be divided into threebasic categories: 1.) the classic “hopelessalcoholic – skid-row” type; 2.) the mentallyill/homeless, who should be hospitalized orre-institutionalized; and 3.) con-artists whoare simply out to take advantage of the sys-tem and wouldn’t work if a hundred jobspresented themselves. If the mentally illwere “re-institutionalized in secure medi-cal environments and if the con-artists seek-ing to take advantage of freebies were re-moved from the picture, “homelessness” perse, would undoubtedly drop dramatically.Of course, that would negatively impact the“homeless industry” that has grown uparound the ever-increasing (of necessity)“homeless” population. One will notice thatregardless of how many millions of dollarsare thrown at the problem and regardless ofwhich party is in office, the annual count ofthe alleged “homeless” never decreases.(The problem becomes “especially severe”for “the most vulnerable among us,” how-ever, when a conservative politician occu-pies the White House.)

Despite the fact that public drunkenness,begging and other affronts to the social or-der have been decriminalized, the burdenof dealing with bums – er…the “residen-tially challenged” still falls on the police.The good liberals who throw money in thebeggar’s cups in the morning are shocked

when the same bum appears passed out intheir doorway in the afternoon. “Where arethe police, and why don’t they remove thesewretched rummies from the streets?”, thegood liberals inquire, as they scurry awayin their Volvos and BMWs to their tonyenclaves in the suburbs. There are intersec-tions in Boston, such as “Mass. & Cass”where every corner is covered by bumscompeting, even fighting with each other,for the right to pester motorists stalled intraffic. (The Massachusetts Supreme Judi-cial Court has decreed that begging is a pro-tected form of free speech, but somehow,one never observes beggars in Wellesley,Sudbury, Marblehead-by-the-Sea, etc.where many of our judges reside. Geez, Iwonder why….)

Since such conduct is no longer withinthe purview of the police to address in anysincere way, it has been suggested thathomelessness, vagrancy, public drunken-ness and related conduct should be ad-dressed as a medical-social problem. Per-haps “bumbulances,” for lack of a betterterm, could be appointed to help the poordears after they’ve consumed a gallon ofListerine and soiled themselves. Or perhaps“bum-buses” could be sent to gather up therum-dums and bring them out to suburbanpastures, parks and commons where theinterplay of fresh air and compassionate lib-eralism could have a positive effect uponthe “most vulnerable among us.”

A Brief History of the American Bum(continued from page B17)


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EMS DivisionEMS DivisionUnity & StrengthUnity & Strength

OUR Memorial Service

(continued on page C3)

It’s not personal…It’s business!

On the road to Roanoke, again!While the weekend began for me and my family with the annual loading of the

van, checking and double checking to make sure all was in its place. Drivingthe 700+ miles from greater Boston to the Shenandoah Valley is an experience. Trav-eling the route takes you through some of the best looking parts of our nation. It alsoallows time to reflect on ones choices. Just driving over hills, down valleys and throughcities you can see why we as a nation are truly blessed.

During our drive we passed many retired servicemen on their annual pilgrimage toWashington, DC for the Thunder Run, many proudly flying the flag off the back oftheir bike. I had the opportunity to speak to some of them in various rest/gas stopsalong our trek. I would thank them for their service to our country. Most responded anasked where we were heading and for what, I was amazed at the gratitude they be-stowed back. During one such conversation, one older not so friendly looking manoverheard me talking with another biker. He came over to say thank you, for he had anexperience with EMS. He said with gratitude how his life was saved by a Medic wholater was Killed in Action.

There was a kinship with all of those bikers who were traveling paying respect topeople, whom they did and did not know. They often shared; we should be thankingyou, and “you’re still fighting battles” one said. I never thought about the similaritybefore that is until you have 12+ hours to drive and reflect. Danger knows no indi-vidual and by putting yourself on the line trying to care for some one who is hurt isvery special.

When we arrived in Roanoke the sun was just starting to come up. I have told youbefore all about the Grand Hotel, and the staff before. So I’ll just say you need to travelin the South to truly appreciate hospitality at its best.

The Star City as Roanoke calls itself has many different attractions which we rarelysee or hear about. Annually during the Memorial Service weekend there is a street faircalled “Festival in the Park” in downtown area. It’s a short walk from the hotel. It’sdefinitely worth going by if you have the time. They also have a smaller version ofFaneuil Hall called the Market Square Area; The Train Museum has one of the bestcollections of Steam Engines and Early Diesel Electric models, trolley, and passengercars assembled. Roanoke happens to be a hub for one of our nation’s busiest freightrailroads. For those of you who are enthusiasts it’s definitely worth the ride. Nextmonth they will be opening a major art museum. It is to house fine arts as well asmodern and contemporary pieces. The building was designed, built and is shapedmuch like one of those old stream engines.

So while waiting for the bike riders to arrive, one can settle back on the front porch,


This year, 73 names were added to “The Tree of Life” the symbol of The NationalEMS Memorial Service “OUR Memorial.” Some of those names I had very

personal encounters with. First, Ritchie Powers, many EMT’s, and Paramedics herehave worked with him at some point in their careers. Ritchie worked all over theBoston area from the South Shore to the Merrimack Valley and every where in be-tween there are very few people in Metro Boston EMS services who didn’t knowhim. His cause of death was he suffered a fatal heart attack after transporting a patientto the hospital.

Next was MichaelLatta. Michael was 21years of age. Heworked for Patriot Am-bulance Service andhis death was very un-expected. His cause ofdeath also happened tobe cardiac in nature.This was a dedicatedyoung man with abright future in EMS.I had the fortune tomeet his family at thehotel prior to the service. His family was very responsive and knew Boston EMSstands alone. They were also very grateful we attended his funeral here in Massachu-setts. Mr. Joseph Murawski of Perth Amboy, NJ, whose family members can’t sayenough good things about Boston, and Boston EMS, wanted to thank all of us, be-cause Ed McCarthy and I traveled to New Jersey to play at his funeral back in June.Lastly, Mr. Allen Parsons of Maine whose mother and father wanted to say an extrathank you to our honor guard who traveled to Maine for his services. He was killedby an intoxicated driver who struck the ambulance while he and his partner weretransporting a critical patient to the hospital.

While 73 of our brothers and sisters were honored forpaying the highest price for doing our job, 73 familieswere affected, add to those numbers coworkers’ friends,and loved ones the numbers start to raise more attention.This year, it was announced OUR Memorial service is

slated to move to Colorado Springs, Colorado in 2010. The sitein Colorado is home to the IAFF Fallen Fighters Memorial. It willbe in the Memorial Park which is for IAFF members only. When Iwas told this was the “best choice” for OUR Memorial. I felt com-pletely betrayed because for once I actually thought members of the

EMS community were acting together in making a positive change. Now I know ourunion leadership has been steadily working on this for some-time with great efforts being set forth. The EMSLA pro-posal of using our Nation’s Capital for OUR Memorialwas “not the best choice,” leads one to believe in con-spiracy theory stories.

I however do not believe it was the IAFF alone whowas the undermining factor here. Mr. Kevin Dillard,along with a selected group, feel they are above us whenit comes to choosing a site for the Memorial. Many yearsago when I first went to the service, I saw OUR Memorialin of all places a shopping mall. I, along with many, said this isno place for OUR Memorial to be. Those times seem so distant and I can rememberbeing told many times the Memorial and the Service could not be moved out ofRoanoke without an Act of Congress. Why, because it was an official act written byCongress, which recognized Roanoke as the Home of the First Volunteer RescueSquad. Since I’m a bit of a history buff, did you all know our own Paul Revere was afirst responder! He aided the wounded during battles here in Boston, so much for

By Gregory Bond, Paramedic 216“To avoid criticism do nothing,say nothing, be nothing.”

-Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

When I was a brand new recruit atBEMS one of my preceptors taught

me one of the most important lessons I’velearned to date.

He told me not to take anything personal.He did this because he recognized that I,

as most recruits are, was young, inexperi-enced, and frankly overwhelmed with theoverall process of becoming a Boston EMT.

On a more private level, I was very “thinskinned,” and when I did make mistakes, Iwould let my emotions got the better of me,causing me to become easily frustrated and

discouraged.This in turn had a negative impact on

my job performance.As a result, he set about working with

me to overcome my fears and self-doubt,and it worked.

In the years since he has become a goodfriend and coworker, and I would like tothank him for his insight and his knowledge.

If my past experiences have taught meanything, it is that mistakes, be it mine orothers, are best served when they are rec-ognized for what they are, learning oppor-tunities.

They should be embraced and learnedfrom, not ignored or otherwise forgotten


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BEMS MEMBERS SPEARHEADNATIONAL MEMORIAL EFFORT

EMS providers across the country are dying at an alarming rate. While researching thissubject I was surprised to find that the occupational fatality rate (OFR) for EMS has grownsignificantly over the past decade. In fact the number of occupational fatalities in EMS is fastapproaching that of the fire service, and experts say it will soon surpass that number. As ofDecember 2007, the OFR for EMS personnel was 12.7 deaths per 100,000 workers com-pared to 13.5 per 100,000 for the fire service. The National Highway Traffic SafetyAdministration’s Center for Statistics and Analysis keep track of these numbers, and al-though the vast majority of EMS deaths (74%) are transportation related, the remaining26% include a wide variety of causes. Electrocution, exposures, cardiac events and homi-cides are just a few of the ways EMTs and Paramedics are dying on the job. We have beenblessed not to suffer a line of duty death within our department. Unfortunately, statistically,it is only a matter of time.

I have attended many LODD funerals over the past eight years. The first was in NewYork City for Carlos Lillo, a Paramedic who was killed during the terrorist attack on theWorld Trade Center. The last one I attended was this June in Sussex County, Delaware.Paramedic Stephanie Callaway was 31 years old when she died in the back of her ambu-lance while treating a patient. The reason I’m writing this article is to point out a fact that Ihave spoke of before in the Pax. As well as dying doing what they loved to do, Paramedic’sLillo and Callaway have something else in common. They, along with every other EMT andParamedic who have died in the line of duty, are not recognized for their sacrifice with apermanent memorial.

Back in May of 2006 I wrote an article in this very publication titled “National Dis-Honor.” I had just returned from the National EMS Memorial Service in Roanoke, VA,which many people mistake for an actual “memorial.” I had been disgusted to watch “thememorial” (two pieces of plywood to which small bronze leaves were attached) beinghastily nailed together an hour or so before the service. In that article I pointed out the factthat there was no permanent memorial in the whole country, just a service. Now don’t getme wrong, the service was always very nice but once it was over, it was over. Packed up,put into storage and forgotten about for another year. Families, friends and loved ones hadnowhere to go to pay respects, and nowhere to visit on special occasions to see a lastingmemorial to their forgotten heroes. “There is no marble wall, no statue, not even a plot ofland” I wrote over two years ago, and guess what? The same is true today.

One thing that has changed since then is my idea of a remedy. Back then I wrote “Some-thing has to be done, I’m not sure what”. Well today I am sure. I know exactly what needsto be done and I am very proud to announce that members of the BPPA-EMS Division haveestablished The National Emergency Medical Services Memorial Foundation, Inc. The solepurpose of this foundation is, as its name implies, to design, build and maintain a perma-nent EMS memorial. As you may be aware, the BPPA-EMS Division are also members of theEMS Labor Alliance (EMSLA, formally known as NEEON) whose membership includes thecity’s of Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Detroit, Cleveland and New CastleCounty, Delaware to name a few. Although each city had expressed an interest in hostingthe memorial, we decided collectively that the only fitting location for such a project wasWashington, DC. Put simply, the nation’s forgotten heroes should be remembered in thenation’s capital. The choice of this location brings some significant challenges; it is not easyto build a memorial in DC. This adds to the prestige of having a memorial in the Capital city.It is easy to build a memorial in just about any other city. For example, we were offeredprime real estate on the Rose Kennedy Greenway for that purpose, but we realize as domost EMT’s and Paramedic’s that it does not belong here in Boston, or New York, Pitts-burgh, etc… That is why we are committed to Washington, DC. We have already met withlocal officials and are well on the way to having the District of Columbia allocate land to thefoundation.

This project is HUGE! The members involved are committing countless hours of theirpersonal time to the effort. How can you help? There are a couple of ways. First we arelooking for someone to set up and maintain a website. We have limited funds available ifneed be, but I would like to think one of our techno-savvy members could do their part forthe cause by donating their skills. Not a computer expert? Not to worry, you too can putyour thumbprint of the memorial. We are now accepting donations!! With $25,000 alreadypledged by NAEMT and an aggressive corporate sponsorship campaign in the works, weare about to start a nationwide fundraising effort. Our EMSLA partners will be solicitingtheir members and I am soliciting you. 100% of the money raised will be invested in thememorial. I know that we seem to be giving a lot these days, it seems everywhere we lookpeople are holding out their hand looking for some of your hard earned money. I would justask you to take a moment and think of how important this project is. Not only will a Na-tional EMS Memorial finally recognize all those that have already given their lives “thatothers might live,” it will also provide a suitable place for any of our own families, friendsand loved ones to visit should, God forbid, one of those terrible statistics catch up with oneof our own. I hope and pray none of us end up on this memorial, but should the unthink-able happen, I would sleep better knowing our brother or sister would be memorialized in away that is fitting, and lasting. Their name would be etched in stone and on display yearround in our Nation’s Capital, not screwed onto a piece of plywood for a couple of hoursone Sunday each May.

Please help us make the National EMS Memorial a reality. You may contact any memberof the executive board if you feel you have skills that may be helpful to the Foundation. Ifyou wish to help financially you may make contributions to the address below.

The National Emergency Medical Services Memorial Foundation, Inc.c/o 9-11 Shetland Street, Boston, MA 02119

Thank you in advance for your support of this cause.Fraternally,

Tony O’Brien

Senator Joseph Biden (D-Delaware), pictured here with BPPA/EMS VicePresident Robert Morley, expressed his appreciation and support duringthis year's annual NAPO conference held in Puerto Rico.

Training ManifestoBy Gregory Bond, Paramedic 216

Seeing as how my attempt at sarcasmand playing devil’s advocate failed to

hit the mark, I thought I might offer a fol-low up article as a straightforward attemptto set the record straight.

With the recent large infusion of new andrelatively inexperienced EMT’s, we needto reinvent the wheel: we need to improvethe training and hopefully regain the highstandards of care to which we have set forthso many years ago.

Ultimately it is we who bear the burdenof teaching them, instructing them, andshowing them the right way.

In doing so, we might also learn a thingor two for ourselves.

This is not restricted only to the class-rooms of the fourth floor at south block,but in the station houses, at the hospitals,and sitting in the front seats of the ambu-lances.

We cannot allow ourselves to be derailedby bad attitudes or bloated egos, it is thesekinds of attitudes that are holding us back.

When somebody stands in the way ofany supplemental education or training, itonly speaks towards their own ignorance,short-sightedness, and laziness.

If we truly care about our department andour profession at large, then we will acceptthis challenge and meet it with the determi-nation and professionalism with which weconduct ourselves every day.

At the end of the day, the responsibilitylies with all of us.

If we do not take it upon ourselves, thenwe are all destined to suffer the conse-quences.

Similarly, the administration and RTQIneed to do a better job of seeking out feed-back from the membership when it comesto the content of the training afforded tothem.

As a result I offer the following as unso-licited but hopefully not unwelcome advice.

These are a number of areas with which

I feel we can dedicate our efforts.

Standardized vs.Specialized Training

As I see it, two broad schools of thoughtseem to exist surrounding the issue of

training.The first revolves around the thought that

some of our personnel, especially our newerpeople, need to focus their efforts towardsreinforcing the “basics” of our job; that eveneveryday calls can be elusive to interpretfor those who maybe should know better.

The other, stresses the fact that we neednot train for something that we practice ev-ery day, but for those situations that are ex-traordinary, in the hopes that we may bettercope when faced with them.

The simple answer is obviously not one,nor the other, but both.

In addition to maintaining the minimaltraining requirements as dictated by OEMS,we should also focus our efforts towardspreparing for the unexpected.

By forcing everyone to endure same ba-sic levels of training, you are bound to teachto the lowest common denominator.

As a result, instead of raising the stan-dard of care you are in fact lowering it.

In addition to the annual refreshers ses-sions we receive, we need a strong effortapplied towards more specialized trainingwhich addresses abnormal situations whichgoes above and beyond the basic require-ments.

This type of training will provide a moretailored approach as dictated by the needsor requirements of the department.

Trickle down teaching

All levels of the department attend training review.

As such, all personnel should be ex-pected to impart their own experiences andteachings.



Homeless 0utreach: The revolving door of healthcare?

being the first volunteers. We all know 85%of this countries EMS and Fire Service is vol-unteer-based. So why select a site that clearlydoes not recognize Volunteers? OurNation’s Capital is home to many memori-als to some of the greatest Volunteers inAmerican History. There are too many tolist and if you don’t know who they are takea trip to DC and see for yourself.

Now I ask why all of a sudden OURMemorial can be moved halfway across thecountry and without Congressional ap-proval. Did Congress make a resolution tomove it? The Tree of Life is OUR Memo-rial, not the Board of Directors of the Na-tional EMS Memorial Service. In 2009, theservice will be held in Roanoke, probablyfor the last time. So if you plan to make thetrip, for whatever reason, I will personallyguarantee the effort is well worth it.

I continue to support the efforts of ourunion leadership and the efforts to moveOUR Memorial to its rightful place inWashington, DC. I ask each and every oneof you to contact your Congressman andSenators when asked to do so and let themknow how you feel about the planned moveas well.

This year was the largest group ever tobe inducted into OUR Memorial. Ourbrothers and sisters “Paid Too High a Price.”They were not looking for monetary wealth,hero status, or personal satisfaction, but justhelping people was their goal. They all leftthe house as if they would return safe andsound, for these people it never happened.These 73 individuals are now foreverbonded together. Their families know of suf-fering known only to them, an only shared

OUR Memorial Service(continued from page C1)

with us on this EMS WEEK weekend.These families came from far and near

to pay homage to their loved ones. Friends’colleagues and associates of many differ-ent service types traveled to the ShenandoahValley, by whatever means. Once again, the“Ride” was a prominent part in makingOUR Memorial Service more visible andpublicly known. If you had not heard, dur-ing one of their stops, they fell into misfor-tune having a support vehicle broken intoand materials stolen. Although a negativesituation the AP picked up the story and itran nationwide. So I guess any press is goodpress. The riders and support staff continueto strive for what was started here in Bos-ton, which is raising awareness of our com-mon bond and OUR Memorial. We shouldnever be considered the others, rescue work-ers, or simply those who drove the personto the hospital.

It is my hope in 2010 we will all be joinedtogether in Washington DC. Gatheringaround OUR Memorial, to pay honor andrespect to those who truly deserve our re-spect, your fellow EMT’s, Paramedics,Flight Nurses, and Pilots. It does not matterif you are a Third service provider,Firefighter or Police Officer, paid, union,private or volunteer we will honor yourmemory. If there is one last message I cansend to the board of the service, the Tree ofLife is “OUR symbol of OUR Memorial.”It can’t be traded or bartered, for short-sighted personal gain. To all of you, PleaseBe Safe and look out for one another.

– Paul K. CiampaEMT 582

Peer Support Team Member

By EMT Ed McCarthy

Several weeks ago, I had the happy oc-casion to encounter two Public Health

Commission Homeless Outreach Physi-cians.

These doctors were roaming the BostonCommon with backpacks full of medicalsupplies, seeking out homeless people thatthey could “help.”

They called us to transport a homelesswoman they had found in a wheelchair whohad been ill for several weeks.

She was in the company of her group offriends by the fountain, and without goinginto great detail, was not interested in go-ing to the hospital.

In fact, she was pretty adamant that shewas NOT going to leave her friends.

She had already been to the hospital sev-eral times over the past week, and did notwant to go back.

The two physicians told her that she“Had to go,” and that she didn’t have anychoice.

Attempts by me to point out that orientedpeople can refuse were met with dismiss-ive gestures, and dirty looks.

After lengthy negotiation, the patient fi-nally agreed to go to the hospital.

Apparently satisfied, the two doctors left

the scene, undoubtedly feeling very goodabout themselves.

At the hospital the patient argued with,and verbally abused a doctor, got a sand-wich, cleaned up a bit, got a prescriptionshe will likely not fill, and after a short timesigned out of the ER against medical ad-vice.

The staff at the receiving facility com-mented that our patient has been in several

times over the past few days, and was uni-formly uncooperative, and disinterested infollowing doctors’ instructions.

She trundled off out of the ER back to-wards the Common in her wheelchair, try-ing to re-join her circle of friends at the foun-tain.

A block from the hospital, on unfamil-iar pavement, she caught one of her wheelsin a rut by the curbstone and overturnedherself onto the sidewalk.

Another EMS unit brought her back tothe same ER, but now with a suturable lac-

eration.Now I ask you: What good has been done

for this woman?My answer is: None at all.In fact, this sequence of events has only

harmed her by removing her from her sys-tem of support - her friends, and indirectlycontributing to her injury.

It seems to me that the only people whogot anything out of this were the two doc-tors, who, I am sure, felt very relevant andself-satisfied as they headed off to otherparts of the park.

I am all for homeless advocacy, and help-ing people out of bad circumstances.

All of us at Boston EMS do that on adaily basis.

I submit that the Cities’ homeless popu-lation has very little difficulty accessingEMS.

Just about every passerby is more thanready to whip out their cell phone, and callus down because “This man needs help.”

If Homeless Outreach Physicians genu-

inely wanted to help the homeless popula-tion, they would station themselves at theexit door of the Emergency Room.

That is where the disconnect is. That iswhere the disconnect has always been, notout in the middle of the Common.

Each homeless person who leaves a hos-pital, after receiving ER care should beasked: “Okay, now what?”

This moment could really be a goldenopportunity.

Their maladies have been assessed, andseen to. Care plans have been written, andprescriptions handed out.

They are likely to be more sober, andperhaps in a better frame of mind to makesome positive decisions about themselves,and their future.

But alas, that’s not as glamorous or asvisible as walking triumphantly past the frogpond in Birkenstocks, blissfully unawarethat meanwhile, homeless people leave in-effective ER visits, and return to damp al-leys, and cold sidewalks.

Ben Franklin was wrong!!

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By Lt. Brian Pomodoro

When Benjamin Franklin said, “The only things assured in life are death andtaxes,” he was mistaken. The only things actually assured in life are complaints

about the turret and complaints about training. The reason is simple really. By tradi-tion, EMTs are a driven, dynamic lot. Fiercely independent and clingy to past practice.Picture a newcomer to this world. You want to fit in right? So at first you take on theopinions of your peers. When you do join in a conversation you echo those opinionsright? Then after a time, and wanting to keep your place in this complex society, yourepeat these opines to the next generation as if they’re your own and so it goes. Socialclimbing at its best and worst. Pay a compliment to a dispatcher, or remark about aninteresting training session and you can kiss your spot in Club Pop good by. I’ve haddozens of people tell me how much they enjoyed a particular class, then to hear it onthe street it was the worst kind of hell to endure.

Part II. Is a little tougher to take. There is an old saying in the theater, “The booscome first from the free seats.” In other words, people who got in free for a perfor-mance tend to be the most critical, where those who paid good money will deliverpraise. I quote this not by accident because that is what people seem to expect fromtraining... entertainment. Despite our 24-hour all-access society, the mission is to re-late information. Often dry, often dull, but nonetheless information that often timesstate and federal agencies dictate shall be taught. You want entertainment in training,work for Barnum and Bailey. You want fun, I’m sure Chuck E. Cheese’s recerts are ablast. It stupefies me how we boast of being the best, yet complain about the venue thatkeeps us there.

about, with the hopes that they will not berepeated.

Mistakes are inevitable, and there is al-ways room for improvement.

When you are criticized for mistakes youmake at work, it does not mean you are badperson.

However, if your mistakes are notpointed out to you, then you will never learnfrom them, you will never improve.

Our chosen profession, like most others,demands our constant attention as it is in aconstant state of flux.

As such we must learn to change with it,to adapt, in order to survive.

Change is always around the corner, andas such, we must learn, inherently, that weshould learn to agree to disagree.

We must also accept that, no matter how

good we think we are, we can always bebetter.

Everyone sees things just a little bit dif-ferent, and as a result, everyone interpretsthem as such, that is what makes us all theindividuals that we are.

At the end of the day, we are stuck witheach other, working together towards whatI view as a common set of goals and stan-dards and beliefs, whether we like it or not.

In this way I hope that we can betterourselves not only as individuals but alsoas a department.

If you disagree with my methods, that’sfine, but at least let me leave you with thisone question: how have your emotions af-fected your job performance?

And when you really think about it askyourself this: has it been for better or worse?

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sitting in rocking chairs enjoying a coolbreeze, drinking a beverage or two. The bikeriders and “wingmen” finally arrived withthe fanfare of many different agencies ve-hicles all lit up. All took time to have a smallwelcoming party, splashing of the cham-pagne and playing a tune or two as they allgave each other high fives. This year themedia paid a little more attention to thecause, sending local news crews to the fin-ishing line. If you did not hear during onestop over, the riders support vehicles werebroken into and equipment was stolen. Thisstill did not dampen the spirits of the ridersthough. They were blessed with local sup-port, vehicles repaired and they were backon their way. When the AP picked up theirstory sending it nationwide primed the lo-cal coverage. So I guess even bad news canbe a positive step in getting the word outabout the EMS Memorial.

After everyone cleaned up and got thepictures taken. All the participants were in-vited to attend an annual BBQ dinner puton by the local volunteer rescue squad. InThe Commonwealth of Virginia most ar-eas are served by Volunteer Rescue squads.Privately owned ambulance services are rareand usually found only in larger cities.While Fire based EMS is not seen unlessyou are in a large city. These volunteer res-cue squads are fully funded by the indi-vidual squads fundraising efforts through-out the year. When it comes to state of theart equipment they will give any large EMSsystem a run for its money.

While at Cave Springs Rescue Squad wewere all treated to what I will describe as agastronomic event of magnificent propor-tions. You can’t leave here hungry! But ifyou do, you have certainly insulted everylittle old lady in the place. By now most ofyou know about my endless enjoyment ofcooking and BBQ, I even tried to get the“secret” recipe. They told me in order toget it I would have to stay in Virginia. Whilethe offer was tempting, the commute wasnot worth it.

So after diner it’s back to the hotel andsome opportunities to socialize and net-work. Most of Friday evening’s festivitiestake place in the hotel’s pub which is calledThe Pine Room. Some started imbibingshortly after the bike riders came in andcontinued till the Hotel Staff kicked us out.

I will report there were some loud andopinionated discussions taking place. Theconsensus on that porch was, very few werehappy with the decision of the board of di-rectors and their plan either. I can also at-test Boston EMS is one of the most re-spected agencies who attend the service. Byof the amount of times I was barraged with“where is Boston” from the other honorguards. Many old friends wanted to sayhello and send back” we expect to see younext year.”

When the Pine Room closes, usuallyaround 2:30 or so and you need that some-thing special to eat! Where do you get abite, and what could possibly be open inRoanoke! Well I’ll tell you there is this littleplace which serves “1,000 people only 10

at a time” called “The Texas Tavern.” Nowthere are no alcoholic beverages served here,But what you do get are some of the bestchili cheese dogs, burgers and this cheese-burger and egg concoction called a “CheesyWestern with or without.” The “with,” iswith onions but you have to order like anative or there is no service for you. (Hos-pitality must stop somewhere, especiallywhen you have large crowds of hungry,well-lubricated individuals.) Now you saywhat so special about a burger place inRoanoke Virginia. Well it’s not the decorwhich is straight from 1930’s. It’s one ofthose places, where you know everybodygoes and every town across this great landhas. How many of you have just gone toSimco’s or Kelly’s in Revere just for thedog or burger at 2 am? Now you understandthe appeal of this place.

A hearty group of us ventured for a feed-ing feast which can be seen in a few epi-sodes of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdomor that “You Tube” video. Well after the feastthe bill came to under twenty bucks for 10hungry larger EMS providers. I don’t knowhow they can afford to keep the prices solow but they have not changed anything inover 70 years. Volume is the only way todescribe this and no matter what economicclass you come from this is the place youcome when your favorite watering holecloses.

On Saturday morning if you have theenergy, strength or constitution, Roanokehappens to have a 5K road race at 7 amsponsored by the “Festival in the Park.” Thisweekend my son entered and came in thirdplace in his division, 33rd overall. Ahhhh,the joys of youth. The announcer had funwith the pronunciation of the last name, butwas even more special was when he an-nounced where he came from. The crowdgave him the warmest of cheers again inthat true southern hospitality shown.

If you’re a survivor of Friday eveningall participant Honor Guard units are sched-uled to meet around 9 am for final prepara-tions for the service. Setting up, folding ofthe flags rehearsing to clam “last minute jit-ters” allows everyone to be on the samepage. After running through the service afew more times we head back to the hoteleat, rest, or whatever.

This year the weather was perfect lowhumidity, temps in the upper 70’s and slightbreeze. This was a blessing for those whowere charged with standing post at the Treeof Life. The service started early due to thelarge number of honorees. Opening beginswith being called to attention by the HonorGuard Commander. The Unified Pipes andDrums playing proudly leading in 32 rep-resentative state flags carried by the en-semble of Honor Guard members. Theseflags represent the states of those being hon-ored. The singing of our National Anthemby Glen Burks of Cleveland EMS was trulyinspirational. Opening prayers, remarks andan address to honored guests and membersof service followed. This year’s guestspeaker Gary Brown, the Director of EMSin Virginia, gave a very heartfelt speech. The

contents I’ll paraphrase, his message bysaying we need to stop and enjoy ourselvesmore. Care for each other and not take ourlife for granted. The service continued withthe Honoree’s family or representative be-ing presented a United States flag (whichwas flown over the Capitol Building), amedal inscribed with the honoree’s nameand LODD date, and a single white rosefor Remembrance. Small tokens of appre-ciation for which have the greatest of mean-ings to each family.

I sat and listened to all the stories of howand why the honorees came to be in thisprofession. The common thread was theyloved helping people. After the all the nameswere read, honors bestowed. The HonorGuard Commander calls everyone to atten-tion again for the retirement of the colors.The pipes and drums again enter this timeon a mournful slow Tap. With an unwaver-ing discipline, command calls, colors to beretired. The pipes and drums blare in uni-son leading everyone out of the church.Then the playing of “Amazing Grace”which signifies the service is about to con-clude. An impressive fly over of the air medi-cal wing and the playing of taps signal every-one present, this years services have ended.

Saturday evening after the service pre-sented another opportunity to meet and greetyour peers from all over the country. Thisyear was even more colorful due to the cir-cumstances surrounding the proposedmove. The Pine Room and balcony were

especially congested with lots of conversa-tion. Again this went into the wee hours ofthe morning.

Sunday morning however was muchmore subdued. The families gather for onelast event. The family breakfast is probablyhardest part of the weekend. Our own Dr.Hayden Duggan spoke at length aboutgrief and the grieving as a process. He trulygave the most moving speech of the week-end. Then any family member, guest, or rep-resentative is then able to share their wordsabout the honorees. Like I said this was themost difficult part to hear. These people pourtheir emotions out one last time to a roomfull of strangers. Their strength and cour-age is awe inspiring. After the breakfast mostpeople make their way out and begin the checkout routine. We all said our last goodbyes andwishes for safe returns. I will head back toRoanoke for the last time in 2009. When itwas announced the service was moving toColorado Springs in 2010 it will mark theend of a tradition and will be the beginningof a new journey. One I hope you all takeadvantage of before the service leavesRoanoke. I still believe in the EMSLA pro-posal and fully intend to support it. So that’swhy in 2010 I’m making plans to see someof you in Washington, DC. Please care forone another, be safe, and take a moment toenjoy yourself, because you all matter andyou all count. I’m proud to serve with eachand every one of you.

– Paul K. Ciampa, EMT 582

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It’s a little thing I like to refer to as“trickle down” teaching.

It goes something like this: When pre-senting a case review say, all memberspresent will speak to their own actions, re-sponsibilities, and concerns.

In this way, Deputies will be teachingMedics, and Medics will be teachingEMT’s, etc.

This will open the door towards whatexpectations might be of personnel at alllevels, and keeps everyone apprised of whateach other is doing-on the same level.

It also helps to erase the possible stigmaof peer teaching/review and in turn increasespersonal accountability at all levels.

Hopefully this will result in increasedcommunications, a better understanding ofeach other’s responsibilities, and ultimatelylead to more streamlined operations.

Field Training Exercises/Table Top/ In-houseDrills and Scenarios

Not to anyone’s surprise, much of ourjob has nothing to do with medicine.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the medicalaspect of our profession, it’s why I do whatI do; but I also recognize that there is somuch more to be a competent practitionerthan knowing one’s protocols.

Also, as we all should know, this is not ajob that can be learned in a classroom.

It can’t be read in a book or taught in alecture.

Unless you’ve “been there, done that”then you will never fully appreciate all ofthe extenuating factors that may play a partin an EMS call.

With so many new people, we shouldtake this opportunity to conduct and exposethem to scenes that they might not have hada chance to experience on their own.

Based on real world calls, loosely or oth-erwise, they could be used as training exer-cises to identify what works and what couldbe improved upon.

This does not require large-scalemultidisciplinary drills or catastrophic sce-narios. Possible scenarios might be multipleshooting victims; multiple patients from afire scene; MVA w/ multiple casualties, etc.

If we don’t have a solid understandingof our own responsibilities and capabilities,then it does us no good to try and under-stand everyone else’s.

These types of exercises could employall of the combined resources, experience,and knowledge of the practitioners involved,not just the one being tested.

Lessons Learned/After Action Review

Why is it that information garnered af-ter a large-scale event or drill is only

accessible to those present at the call itself?The fact is that information sharing has

always been a problem around here andshould be more widespread.

Following a large scale, unusual, or oth-erwise notable call, there should be in place

a better method of debriefing and in turnpresenting the call to others so as to figureout what worked, what didn’t work, andhow we might learn from and improve uponit in the future.

Input from outsiders should be encour-aged instead of what we have now which isjust the opposite.

Advanced/EnhancedTraining

One of my first jobs as a teenager wasthat of a lifeguard.

As part of my training then had to learnall aspects about water survival and waterrescue in the face of a distressed swimmer.

Some years ago, I attended a wildernessEMT course in New Hampshire. While I’lladmit that although the majority of mate-rial taught did not apply to urban EMS, Idid find that later that year I was confrontedwith a call in the city where my wilderness

training proved useful and improved thepatient outcome.

Although these two examples may notapply to our everyday job descriptions orrequirements, they just may come in handywhen someone’s child is drowning at thefamily barbeque or someone twists an ankleduring a camping trip.

When someone says that we don’t needextended transport/treatment protocols dueto our short transport times, I say tell that tothe crew stuck for over an hour with a car-diac arrest in a blinding snowstorm.

The point is you just never know whensupplemental training will play a crucial rolein helping to save someone’s life.

New Trends/Techniquesin EMS and/or

Emergency Medicine

As always, we need to keep an eye onwhat’s taking place throughout the

country and/or the rest of the world withregard to new trends in emergency medi-cine and prehospital care.

This can open up discussion as to whatmay work or not work for BEMS and at thevery least can be educational and informa-tive.

I believe that we, as a department, shouldwelcome any and all training regardless ofits impact on our jobs.

If nothing else, it provides a means ofbetter understanding and accepting thoseapplications that may lie outside of our ownscope of practice.

By limiting ourselves to our own per-ception of what is and what is not appropri-ate for our day-to-day activities, we aremissing out on huge educational opportu-nities and in fact inhibiting ourselves frombecoming better all around practitioners.

Training Manifesto(continued from page C2)

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Remembering our soldiers during the holidaysBy Mark A. Bruno

The Fourth of July has comeand gone, and Labor Dayis fast approaching. Too of-

ten we take for granted how com-fortable we are during these holi-days. We plan cookouts and invitefamily friends over for a relaxingday. Unfortunately we forget thatthere are American Servicemenserving overseas protecting thepeace and serenity we get to en-joy on these holidays. Some of ourown members of the BPPA havebeen recalled to serve yet another

tour in Iraq and Afghanistan. Theyprotect the “blanket of freedom” ourfamilies sleep under every night.They are some of the bravest menand women you’ll ever meet. Theircourage and conviction in what theyare doing for the United States ofAmerica should never be questioned.They are all heroes who deservenothing but our utmost respect.

That being said, I wanted tomention a couple of people whoimpressed me with their undyingloyalty and support. The first onewas a performer who was playing

at the Bank of America Pavilionin June. I decided to drop in priorto my shift so I could listen to afew of the songs. I thought this per-former was a liberal until I heardan eloquent speech given duringthis performance. Up on the screenbehind the stage a huge AmericanFlag was displayed, and in themiddle of it were our soldiersfighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.This singer made a plea to the au-dience to please support our troopsregardless of how they felt aboutthe war. She asked that everyone

support the USO of which she wasa supporter. Asking that everyoneplace a little something in an en-velope, even if it were a dollar, tohelp support the USO. This singerfrom the seventies is now sixty-one and can still belt out the tunes.Thank you Stevie Nicks, for sup-porting our troops.

The next person I wanted tothank is my wife’s cousin, Chris-topher Clark. This young man isserving his country in Afghanistan.He recently came stateside to en-joy a wedding reception for hissister. I remember a shy little boywho now is a fully-grown man.This young man had to go throughhoops to get back for this specialevent. This is not like putting infor a P-day. Watching him enjoyhimself around his family friendswas heartwarming for all. Every-one knew the sacrifice this youngman was making, and that afterthis reception he would be head-ing back to combat duty overseas.When I talked to him about whathe was doing over there in Af-ghanistan, he couldn’t have beenmore proud. He talked about help-ing families and spreading democ-racy throughout this war-torn area.He mentioned how his fellow sol-diers were performing under fire.He never once complained about

being there or wanting to get out.He was proud to serve his countryand would do another tour if calledupon.

Later in the evening as we wereabout to leave the reception, Chris-topher asked us all to please waitaround because he had somethingspecial for us. I couldn’t imaginewhat this young man had for us,but I waited eagerly. He slid out tohis car and returned with severalboxes that each had an AmericanFlag in it. He started with me andpulled out what appeared to be acertificate which read that this par-ticular flag had been flown inAfghanistan on a certain dateand time. The flag was foldedneatly in a triangle in this boxwhich he handed to my wife andme. I never felt more proud ofthis young man who broughtback about a dozen or more flagswhich he had flown individuallyoverseas. This young man likemany soldiers serving overseas,has the courage of a lion and aheart of gold. This flag is nowamongst my most cherished pos-sessions.

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Boston Police Academy

Ido not have to tell anyone who is readingthis publication that our jobs can, at times,

get dirty. Police officers and EMT’s are con-stantly in situations that cause them to getdirt, grime, blood, sweat, and even tears ontheir uniforms. Not to mention the self ap-plied food stains. I could not imagine do-ing the job our EMT’s do. And I bet thatthere are EMT’s who think that we are crazyfor doing what a police officer does. Wouldyou believe, however, that there are jobseven dirtier than ours?

Dirty Jobs is a reality show on the Dis-covery Channel. Not reality show as in abunch of over privileged brats living to-gether in the same household, whining

about the fact that they have to actually geta job to have spending money for the trip toVegas that the network is sending them on.Thanks MTV, for skewing the world’s con-ception of what reality actually is.

No, Dirty Jobs is about reality in thesense that the world is a big place and thereare lots of nasty, stinky jobs that need to getdone in order to keep society running. Sewersystems don’t clean themselves, folks. Toquote the rock group, Faith No More: “It’sa dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it.”

Since July of 2005, the Discovery Chan-nel has showcased Dirty Jobs, an actual re-ality show that depicts what life is like forthose poor slobs who have to clean uproadkill or inspect our sewers. Hosted byMike Rowe, a sarcastic, blue-collar every-

Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs.”

man, Dirty Jobs is an hour’s worth of on-the-job-training with some of the dirtiestjobs on the planet. Mike Rowe and hishappy camera crew travel the world andinterview the people who do the dirty jobsin question, such as hot tar roofers and side-walk chewing gum removal experts. Theinterviews, however, do not just stop withquestions. Mike will, in every episode, workas an eager – or not so eager – assistant tothe laborers. Whatever the workers are do-ing, Mike Rowe will be doing … whetherhe likes it or not. For example, he has got-ten instruction on and performed such jobsas ostrich wrangling, mushroom farming,and concrete stamping.

Some of the jobs have not been so bad,such as the beer brewing, the candy mak-ing, and the special effects makeup testing.(That’s a perfect day for me: beer, candy,and Halloween masks!) Some jobs, how-ever, have been very dangerous, such ashauling garbage from a sinkhole, handlingpoisonous snakes, beekeeping, and test-ing shark suits. (Yes, testing shark suits.)And some jobs have been so awful anddisgusting that they are almost the stuffof nightmares, such as being a technicianat a waste water sewage plant, being ananimal skull cleaner, being a horse ma-nure removal specialist, or even being anartificial inseminator of farm animals. (Nocomment.)

You might recognize Mike Rowe’s faceif you watch an episode of Dirty Jobs, but

you will most likely recognize his voice.Mike has been a television personality sincethe early 1990’s when he pitched productson the shopping network, QVC. Since then,the former opera singer has hosted variousnews and television magazine shows, oneof which gave him the idea for the pilot ofDirty Jobs. While working for a San Fran-cisco news station between 2001 and 2005,Mike hosted a segment entitled “Some-body’s Gotta Do It.” After receiving a largevolume of fan mail about the segment, Mikesent a copy of the show to the DiscoveryChannel, who commissioned the seriesDirty Jobs, with Mike Rowe as its host.Currently, Mike is narrating not only DirtyJobs, but The Deadliest Catch, AmericanChopper, American Hot Rod, and the an-nual Shark Week. Mike even narrates theopening of Ghost Hunters, on the Sci-FiChannel. And he does those Ford truck ads.Heck, next time you have the plumber cometo the house, look under his hat; it mightjust be Mike Rowe.

Dirty Jobs has four seasons and 87 epi-sodes under its work belt; seasons one andtwo are on DVD. At the end of each epi-sode, Mike Rowe asks viewers to submitsuggestions of dirty jobs that they wouldwant to see Mike do. He claims that with-out those suggestions, the show will even-tually fade away. If you have an idea, thengo to discovery.com and send it in. Whoknows? You might be Mike Rowe’s bossfor a day.


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• Small children are scolded for picking upa pack of matches, but allowed to handlea “sparkler” and told to pose for a pic-ture? These so called “harmless spar-klers” burn at about 1,500 degrees andinjure countless children each year. Keepyour kids away from them.

• Senator Barack Obama thinks he can“create” his foreign policy experience bytaking a tour of the Middle East? Sena-tor… you’re only fooling yourself.

• The Red Sox Organization just received$13.3 million in tax credits from the tax-payers of Massachusetts?

• There are public pools in this state thatremain closed? (Hint: See last entry)

• Jesse Jackson still receives ANY atten-tion from the media? He shows up at vari-ous places in this country and tries to cre-ate more trouble. Now he’s insultingSenator Obama! You go Jesse… GOAWAY!

• Some fans still chant ”Yankees S***” atmost if not all of the games at Fenway?Can you imagine if basketball fans aroundthe country started chanting “CelticsS***”? Or what about “Patriots S***”?We would be outraged that anyone couldsay that about “our teams” Boston fanslook like fools every time they wear thosefoolish tee shirts or start that chant.

• Some politicians think it’s a good idea tomove City Hall to the waterfront? Youknow it will somehow cost the citizensof the city millions of dollars and the poli-ticians will end up with great views fromtheir offices. Keep it where it is.

• You never see kids playing a pick-upgame of baseball anymore?

• The Registry of Motor Vehicles has atough time keeping repeat drunk driversoff the road? Some have killed innocentdrivers and pedestrians but still are driv-ing on our roadways.

• Senator Obama thinks he can garner votesfrom the voters by saying, “I don’t un-derstand when people say “We want En-glish only” – Instead of worrying aboutwhether immigrants can learn English –they’ll learn English – you need to makesure your child can speak Spanish!” Thisguy has completely lost direction. We

want it because it’s our history! Do youthink France wants to give up their lan-guage? And Senator, just how are theygoing to learn English? There’s no suchthing as assimilating into this countryanymore. Remember voters… PRESSONE FOR ENGLISH when calling theObama campaign office to complain.

• Some lifeguards got in trouble a fewweeks ago for chasing down someseagulls on a beach, but a politician ha-

rasses a few women and he keeps hisjob?

• The summer passes by so quickly? Yetwinters around here seem endless?

• This state doesn’t have a death penalty?Neil Entwistle deserves it!

• Howie Carr is in the Radio Hall ofFame? I listen to his show every once andawhile and find myself laughing atsome of his topics, but Hall of Fame?He was begging for listeners to vote forhim… it was pathetic. So self-servingHowie. He must have something in hiscontract that gives him a few extrabucks if all his loyal listeners vote himin. Come on Howie… how much didyou get? 10k?, 25k? More?

• The men and women of this departmentmust again suffer the horrible loss of oneof their own? Rest in Peace, Kaitlyn. Youwill not be forgotten by those who knewyou.Stay Safe.

The BPPA Golf Committee would like to thank everyone who par-ticipated in making the 2008 Annual Tournament a great suc-

cess.This year’s tournament was held at Franklin Park Golf Course

with the reception held at the Boston Police Post. The food wascatered by the Porto Bello Restaurant in South Boston.

The Committee would also like to acknowledge the many, whilebehind the scenes, who make this event a reality along with ourgracious sponsors with whom we should reciprocate in kind byfrequenting their place of business.

Special thanks to:Annmarie Daly, Fred Stevens, Jay Broderick, Joe Vannelli, Pat

Rose, Marty Columbo, Brian Reaney, Mark Bruno and the manyothers who help with the set up work and preparation…

Thank you one and all,The Golf Committee

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Golf Committee Says Thanks

How Many Can YouGet Correct?

Sports Trivia: Bill Carroll?

How Much Do YouKnow About Your Country?

United States Trivia: Bill Carroll?

(see answers on page C19)

1. What is the largest gold producing state in the UnitedStates?

2. What is the largest oil field in the United States?3. Where did the first public elementary school in the United

States open and in what year?4. What city in Florida is known as the Venice of America

because it has 185 miles of local waterways?5. What state has 90,000 miles of shoreline which is more than California, Florida, and

Hawaii combined?

1. In the history of Major League baseball whatteam that has played in only one home city hasproduced the most twenty game winners?

2. What current Major League team has gone thelongest without a twenty game winner?

3. Who was the only twenty games winner in theMajors in 2007?

4. Since 1968 what Major League pitcher logged the most innings in a season?5. Who was the youngest Major Leaguer to hit 500 career homeruns?6. Who was the last Major League catcher to win a regular season MVP Award?7. What current Major League teams have never had a twenty game winner?8. Who was the last Major League Rookie to win twenty games in a season?9. What Major Leaguer hit 60 or more homeruns in a season the most times?10. Who is the only twenty games winner in Florida Marlins history?

(see answers on page C19)

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Disorder in the American Courts

United States(see questions on page C17)

Trivia Answers ?

Sports(see questions on page C17)

1.The New York Yankees have had 57 twenty game winners in the history of theirfranchise to lead the Major Leagues.

2.The Cleveland Indians have not had a twenty game winner since 1974 which is thelongest drought among current Major League teams.

3.The only twenty game winner in Major League baseball in 2007 was Josh Beckett ofthe Red Sox who went 20-7.

4.In 1972 White Sox lefthander Wilbur Wood pitched 376.2 innings which is the mostin Major League baseball in the last forty years.

5.Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees is the youngest Major Leaguer to hit 500 careerhomeruns at 32 years and 8 days old.

6.The last catcher to win a regular season MVP Award was Pudge Rodriguez of theTexas Rangers in 1999.

7.Three current Major League teams have never had a twenty game winner, the Colo-rado Rockies, Tampa Bay Rays, and the Washington Nationals.

8.The last Major League rookie to win twenty games in a season was Tom Browning ofthe Cincinnati Reds who went 20-9 in 1985.

9.Sammy Sosa, while with the Chicago Cubs hit 60 or more homeruns in a season threetimes, 1998, 1999, 2001.

10.The only twenty game winner in the history of the Florida Marlins is southpaw DontrelleWillis who went 22-10 in 2005.

1.The largest gold producing states in the United States is Nevada.2.Prudhoe Bay in Alaska is the largest oil field in the United States.3.The Mather School in Dorchester was the first public elementary school to open in

the United States in 1639.4.Fort Lauderdale, Florida has 185 miles of local waterways and because of that it is

known as the Venice of America.5.The state of Minnesota has 478 lakes which account for 90,000 miles of shoreline

which is more than California, Florida, and Hawaii combined.

These are from a book called “Disorderin the American Courts,” and are

things people actually said in court, wordfor word, taken down and now publishedby court reporters that had the torment ofstaying calm while these exchanges wereactually taking place.

ATTORNEY: What was the first thingyour husband said to you that morning?

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pressure?WITNESS: No.ATTORNEY: Did you check for breath-

ing?WITNESS: No.ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that

the patient was alive when you began theautopsy?

WITNESS: No.ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure,

Doctor?WITNESS: Because his brain was sit-

ting on my desk in a jar.ATTORNEY: I see, but could the pa-

tient have still been alive, nevertheless?WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he

could have been alive and practicing law.

By David Venditta,The Morning Call, Allentown, PA

Alton W. Knappenberger, who wasborn in Coopersburg, Pennsylva-

nia, worked on a pig farm and receivedthe nation’s highest military honor dur-ing World War II, died of natural causesrecently in Pottstown Memorial Hospi-tal. He was 84.

PFC Knappenberger, an Armydraftee, was awarded the Medal ofHonor for acting with ‘’conspicuous gal-lantry and intrepidity’’ in his first andonly combat experience just days afterthe Allied landing atAnzio, Italy, in 1944.

He picked up aBrowning automaticrifle, ran alone to aknoll and held off aGerman attack formore than two hoursnear Cisterna diLatina, 30 miles fromNazi-held Rome, onFeb. 1, 1944. Thefield was littered with60 German dead.

“Knappie,’’ as hisbuddies called him,served in CompanyC, 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. His commanding general calledhim “a one-man army.’’ He went home to the Perkiomen Valley in August 1944, amidwide acclaim and pitched war bonds.

But throughout the rest of his life he shunned publicity, seeking a return to obscu-rity. He drove a truck, laid blacktop and ran backhoes. He lived in a trailer in thewoods of Earl Township, Berks County, near Boyertown, Pennsylvania.

With his death, only 28 of the 464 Medal of Honor recipients from World War IIsurvive.

‘One man army’Alton Knappenberger dies

Won Medal of Honor for WWII valor,but lived quiet post-war life

Alton W.Knappenberger

1924-2008


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