Cambridge Day reports the city will bring on 32 additional cops to watch over polling places - and will install a stronger door to keep potential attackers out of the central elections office.
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More police is never the
By Rwgfy
Sun, 10/08/2023 - 11:56am
More police is never the answer, except when the convenience and speed of transit of city officials is at stake.
Spoken...
By lbb
Sun, 10/08/2023 - 7:29pm
...like someone who has never dealt with threats from loonies while working as an election worker or campaign worker.
This
By brianjdamico
Tue, 10/10/2023 - 9:33pm
is really really dumb trolling. Like really dumb. Could you at least try a little harder?
Here in Boston, when a person
By Adrian
Sun, 10/08/2023 - 1:19pm
Here in Boston, when a person is suspicious of BRIC, they generally don't feel safer in the presence of cops. They may, in fact, feel less safe. And this year, they may be at the polls to vote against the city council members who just gave $3.4 million to BRIC.
I'm not saying anything similar is happening in Cambridge.
Here in Boston
By Waquiot
Sun, 10/08/2023 - 2:18pm
There’s a cop at every voting precinct. Been that way since I first voted back in the 1980s.
Yeah. It's amazed me since I
By Rob
Sun, 10/08/2023 - 2:41pm
Yeah. It's amazed me since I first saw it.
Absolutely bizarre that people who argue against voter ID laws & disenfranchisement (with some justification) usually fail to see the disconnect between that and having armed, uniformed police officers working the sign-in or sign-out books at the polling places.
Speaking of security, why does Boston leave the ballot drop boxes out on the street for weeks/months between elections? By definition, that's not secure.
They don't do that
By lbb
Sun, 10/08/2023 - 7:30pm
They don't do that. Election workers do that.
In Boston?
By Michael Kerpan
Sun, 10/08/2023 - 9:10pm
A police officer has invariably worked at the sign out desk of the precinct I vote at for the past 27 years.
I don't know where you live
By Rob
Sun, 10/08/2023 - 11:24pm
I don't know where you live and vote, ibb, but that's voting in Boston. Police, armed and uniformed, working the log books.
It's not some odd exception, either. Between different places lived in the city and the one or two years I worked elections, I've been involved at four different buildings and seen it at all four, some of which were multiple precinct (and had a police officer for each precinct).
Personally, there are few reasons there should be police in/around the polling place (absent a danger to security of the polling place).
Outside - to enforce the statutes about candidates (or their reps) not campaigning within a certain distance of the doors would be a refreshing change.
Inside... in these 'troubled times', I could see maintaining proper security in a school building that hosts a polling place, to keep strangers from wandering from the polls into other sections of the building.
My suburban hometown schools, which have gone for security features like cameras, more fences, defined paths, locked building doors, etc... have also unfortunately gone to the somewhat dipshit extreme of closing school on election day the last few years instead of posting a doorkeeper at the most practical entrance and posting a guard between the polling place (usually the gym or caf) and the classroom section of the building.
He’s in Western MA
By robo
Sun, 10/08/2023 - 11:29pm
But pretends he’s in Boston.
I’ve too seen uniformed officers at every polling station (in Boston) I’ve voted at for the last 15 years.
You're a woman
By lbb
Mon, 10/09/2023 - 12:58pm
but you pretend you're a man.
Don't assume everyone is male just because that's the shape of your blinders, dimwit.
Doesn’t change the fact
By Waquiot
Mon, 10/09/2023 - 3:31pm
Boston Police officers are at voting precincts.
Ditto for other cities
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 10/10/2023 - 8:07pm
Medford doesn't have them do anything but hang out being cops, watch the buffer zones and ask people with candidate-promoting t-shirts to cover them.
But they are there nonetheless.
What is BRIC?
By Tim Mc.
Sun, 10/08/2023 - 6:15pm
The only expansion I know of is "Brazil, Russia, India, and China" -- which doesn't really seem to fit here.
It's that intelligence
By Rob
Sun, 10/08/2023 - 6:39pm
It's that intelligence resource thing there was a news item about a budget figure & vote a few days ago (Boston City Council). Don't feel bad - it took a lot of layers of Googling to get past Brazil/etc... to the right answer.
Questionable logic
By Polybius
Sun, 10/08/2023 - 2:17pm
Going to go out on a limb and say that if you ranked "Groups in Cambridge that believe in overturning an election through violence" the cops would be pretty high up. The number of cops who were at the Capitol on January 6 does nothing to disabuse me of this notion.
How many of them...
By lbb
Sun, 10/08/2023 - 7:31pm
...were in uniform on that fateful day?
Good idea
By SatansFist
Sun, 10/08/2023 - 5:14pm
The bike lane and DSA people are out of control
I think you mean
By sartreswaiter
Tue, 10/10/2023 - 10:40am
Anti-bike lane people are out of control.
They will just drive their cars to the polls
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 10/10/2023 - 8:08pm
And through them.
FTFY
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 10/10/2023 - 8:09pm
The bike lane and DSA people are engaged with their communities and actually vote. HORRORS!
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