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Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
What was this about? I missed this.
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A total of 56 officers citywide for crowd control after the superbowl, along with saturation teams and narcotics personnel on standby *in case they were needed*. The total emergency plan was 15 pages long (it would presumably list the different units, their strength, their responsibilities, their bosses) for the whole city. The acting boss is with friends or family monitoring the aftermath by phone, but does not report to work until early the next morning.
After the game, large-scale mob behavior breaks out. A drunk driver hits and kills an early 20's guy on the street. There are numerous injuries all over the city.
Of course, Boston has seen the large-scale mob behavior in the recent past for similar events, as have almost all cities with victorious teams and many cities with losing teams.
The victory parade plan for the next day (or two days later) is 50 pages long and includes many, many more officers.
Yesterday's (Monday's) Boston Globe has an interview with the dead kid's mom. She's a nobody, but she talks rage good. Menino tried to make it sound like it was no big deal. Ditto the acting boss. From my "sweeper" days, I can tell you that this was pathetic, and many people in the Boston PD knew better... they've been there and done it before. But noooo, the mayor can't just admit that his acting boss and many others dropped the ball completely. He barely admits any error in judgement.
This is one of those events where you issue tear gas to teams, cancel days off, extend shifts to overlap from immediately before the expected end of the game til 3 AM or so, and put 30-45% of your total manpower on the street for riot-duty. I'm serious, that is what's done in almost any other city, and its almost certainly what Boston has done before.
In a very well-run city, this is a blip. But pretending there was nothing wrong is making it into a bigger event than it was.
Anyway, its been in the Globe a lot the last week, and its casting an excellent city and organization into a worse light than should be expected.
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