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Quality of Life Policing Has a History of Not Solving Anything

June 16, 2008 – 8:13 pm

Less than one month after being sworn in as Springfield’s acting top cop, Commissioner William Fitchet announced the formation of a new four-officer Ordinance Squad to issue warnings and citations for violations of city ordinances ranging from playing music too loud to jaywalking to having an unkept lawn. (See “Police hearten blight victims” from April [...]

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“Bastards of the Party:” Video Screening and Speakout!

January 24, 2008 – 2:56 pm

Speakout and Video Screening of “Bastards of the Party”
Presented by Western Mass Copwatch
Jan. 21st 12-2:30pm
Featured at the Media Education Foundation located at 60 Masonic Street in Northampton
Western Mass Copwatch will be showing “Bastards of the Party” (a film about the Bloods and Crips in LA, illustrating how the police act as catalysts for the [...]

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