Talk:Boston Police Department

message: I hesitate, then place this article as a high start class, due to having only one reference. If more are added, this will quickly rise.--SGGH 14:50, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: assessment

message: On a recent visit to Boston, I noticed some police vehicles were predominently blue and prominently marked 'Boston Police', whilst others were predominently black and prominently marked 'Municipal Police'. I wasn't sure if I was seeing two different police departments, or just a branding change. 
I hoped this article might answer that question, but it doesn't really. Except for an implied one by including the article in the category 'United States municipal police departments', which might be misleading. Can anybody answer the question/improve the article?. -- Chris j wood 15:02, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boston Police / Municipal Police - Same thing?. 

message: Added April 3, 2007
The Wiki on the (former) Boston Municipal Police should not be merged with the wiki on the Boston police.
On December 31, 2006, the "Muni" force was formally disbanded.  Approximately 35-37 men and women transferred to the regular Boston Police.  Those remaining are now called the Boston Municipal Protective Services.  They are a separate body of employees and a completely separate union.
Other definitions wrongly portray these people as the security guards at Boston's City Hall.  While that is one of their details, they also serve at numerous other city office buildings, community centers, city-affiliated clinics, and some remaining details retained at the first-of-the-year change. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 141.157.185.51 (talk) 03:18, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revised Department (former Boston Muicipal Police) is now City Municipal Protective Services

message: I've replaced the Police Department infobox template with a standard template.  The police template surprisingly lacks versatility, not allowing for changing Chief of Police to Commissioner, and is a definite problem for Boston and many other cities like NYC, that have a Commissioner as head of department.  (Edit::  Actually, those other head of department categories are there, I just can't get them to work.  I don't know enough to try to fix the template either)  
I took out the helicopters and jails sections.  As I know it, the Boston Police depend on Massachusetts State Police helicopters and don't have their own aviation division, and jails are integrated with the stations.  Suffolk County Sherriff's Department is in charge of the House of Corrections (South Bay and Nashua St), which in other cities would be known as the main city jail.  
Please feel free to add on or change information in the infobox as it is known.Nam1123 04:01, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Infobox 

message: "The BPD's handling of this incident has been criticized by Boston residents: "We all thought it was pretty funny," said one student. "The majority of us recognize the difference between a bomb and a Lite-Brite," said another.[4] One resident said that the police response was "silly and insane", and that "We’re the laughing stock"."
I believe this is not needed in a summary of the Boston PD. I have no problem with this being in the Aqua Teen page., but not here. BTW, it is "some" Boston residents. BTW, the reaction was praised by the Department of Homeland Security [1]. Funny that's not mentioned but a college student's in-depth analysis was. 1. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2007-02/01/content_798219.htm DrRisk13 20:00, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleting part on Aqua Teen reaction 

message: Is this at all relevant to this article? -- Kendrick7
:I agree completely.  This one incident is not indicitive of the entire police department.  This section should be removed as severely undue weight.  Arzel (talk) 04:04, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  One cop got fired for writing an email this one time 

message: I've commented out a section of the firsts part of the article. It's supposedly about the first Italian officer in Boston getting killed. But it's in dense, improperly capitalized narrative form (probably straight from an old newspaper or book), and it doesn't really seem relevant. I'm leaning towards deletion of the section, but I'd like to get others' thoughts first. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:22, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Italian Officer killed in line of duty? 

message: This seems much more a piece of PR rather than an encyclopedia entry.  Not having a criticism section makes this difficult to take seriously.  
More specifically, I think a brief discussion of the BPD's important role in the Boston Miracle of the 1990s is in order here.----  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Georgearnold23 (talk • contribs) 19:18, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  general critique 

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thread_title:  Rewrite in progress 

message: Anyone want to write a few sentences on BPD's significant role in responding to the Boston Marathon bombing? 74.69.121.132 (talk) 20:11, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  response to the Boston Marathon bombing 

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message: A friend told me that police departments in the U.S. were formed for the purpose of catching fugitive slaves. Please address the role of the BPD in capturing persons escaping slavery ... in the context of local crime.
Dorothea1927 (talk) 13:25, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: 1. History 1.2 19th Century - Suggestion