Police, who could only fill 65% of road-work flagging jobs over the past year, don't want to give up their monopoly

Only thing they’re interested in protecting and serving are their own wallets.

The police union president thinks that rules are for other people. Well, almost.

Murphy suggested that the high rate of pay for flaggers might actually deter Boston school children from attending college.

“My kids went to college,” she said. “I don’t know that they would have taken the path they took if they knew they could get a $70,000-a-year job out of high school.”

This is so dumb I can't even make a coherent comment. Just let it stand on its own in stupidity.

https://twitter.com/BostonPatrolmen/status/1589708439370227712

Then, when BPPA Pres. Larry Calderone was given a chance to respond, they turned his mic off after 2 minutes.

https://www.baystatebanner.com/2022/11/07/police-council-clash-over-civi...

Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association President Larry Calderone refused to surrender the microphone after exceeding the five-minute limit for testimony, prompting councilors to walk out of the hearing, held at the Bolling Building in Roxbury.

Curious, I wonder which retelling of the story is a lie.

Tell me again just how different MA is?

I'll take someone with an unambiguous STOP/SLOW sign over goofy non-standard hand gestures that are both difficult to see and even more difficult to interpret any time.

As a civilian in VA and safety was assured

...is that the full time job should be satisfied first.

Id like to hear some statistics on how much extra detail hours adds above the primary job functions of police work.

If it impacts worker (police officer) "productivity" of the primary job title, things should change where it is feasible for cities (and states) to do so. It should at least be minimized as reasonable and focused on essential functions that only police trained positions are able to do.

Legal graft gives Massachusetts local police good reason to not seek out bribes and other forms of illegal income. We run the risk that local police will start accepting bribes if they can't boost their incomes with detail graft.

What about the children who are not abused by local police parents because the parents spend so much time hanging around construction sites and what not. We need to protect those kids from abusive police parents.

On the other hand, among local police who do not abuse their children, this could actually result in the same parents spending more time with their kids. What an amazing concept! Parents spending time with their kids.

The bit about creating opportunities for non-cops is a nice plus.

Transit and BPD had a huge fight in the past about whether Transit officers could work details at Transit stations and Bridges. Despite the fact that BPD couldn't fill the shifts. Boston is actually full of sworn officers that work for colleges, hospitals and even DMH. They could set a system where they allow non-bpd sworn officers to cover details that haven't been filled within 24 hours of start, then there would not be 45% gap. There are businesses that are supposed have a detail, but purposely don't reserve one in time for anyone to take it.

How blatant they are about not doing anything, theyll look at the phone or look into a hole as tralffic backs up