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A pilot program was scheduled to start last week. But after no officers volunteered, Commissioner William Evans ordered 100 officers to wear the cameras. That prompted the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association to ask a judge to issue an injunction to halt the program until a new agreement can be negotiated.
Union President Patrick Rose testified Tuesday that the city violated its agreement with the union when Evans assigned officers to what was supposed to be an all-volunteer program. Rose acknowledged that he told members not to volunteer for the program before the union had reached an agreement with the city.
[...] Evans said he wants the program to begin next week and believes it's within his authority as police commissioner to order officers to wear the cameras.
No word on whether or not the Commissioner volunteered to wear a camera.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 09 2016, @01:30AM
Street stops present more disparate data: Seventy-seven percent of whites stopped said police behaved properly, while only 38 percent of blacks did. However, the BJS notes that the number of responses to the question in its sample was so small that those figures must be “interpret[ed] with caution,” so clearly additional information is needed. More reliable are figures about street-stop rates.
If you are going to quote, quote the whole source otherwise you look like an idiot.
(Score: 2) by Zinho on Friday September 09 2016, @02:46AM
That line was 5 paragraphs away; I'm not in the habit of quoting half an article to correct poor presentation on the part of the author.
Furthermore, the author seems confident in the rest of the street stop data (as indicated by the last line you quoted). I see no indication that the author was questioning the validity of the his previous numbers. The large separation between the two indicates that he intended to divorce the conclusions of one paragraph from the uncertainties of the other. This is either a legitimate analysis and I was right to not quote the second paragraph, or the author was intentionally lying with statistics in an article titled "statistics don't lie".
Oh, the irony!
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