Mayor Janey Takes on the POLICE in Boston; It's About Time that Someone Did Breanna, Take Your Head Out of the Sand and DO SOMETHING

 Battenfeld: Acting Mayor Kim Janey takes on blue wall and powerful Boston Police union...maybe Harry MacGilvray will arrest her in effigy too???

 

Acting Mayor Kim Janey’s rocky relationship with the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association could define her stay in the mayoral perch but she may find that standing up to the powerful union won’t be easy.

Janey — who has promised a “new chapter” of police accountability — is up against a wall of generous contracts, overtime, police-friendly arbitrators, political contributions, Civil Service rulings and virtual nontransparency that the unions have built up over decades of flexing their political muscle.

Recent history suggests that the wall is impenetrable. Certainly her predecessor, Mayor Martin Walsh, a former union official, never considered challenging the unions, giving them an aura of even more power.

 

 https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/04/18/battenfeld-acting-mayor-kim-janey-takes-on-blue-wall-and-powerful-boston-police-union/