"DA look at flagger protest sought; Woburn review: Officers' actions possibly illegal" by David Abel, Globe Staff | October 16, 2008
WOBURN - Three out-of-town police officers may have committed crimes and acted in ways unbecoming of a police officer in last week's protest of the state's new civilian flagger rules, an internal investigation by city officials has found.
After reviewing videotapes of the Oct. 7 protest on Lexington Street, Mayor Tom McLaughlin said yesterday that he has turned over evidence to the Middlesex district attorney's office for review and possible charges. The Oct. 7 protest in Woburn included about 50 off-duty officers from Arlington, Medford, Everett, Stoneham, and Woburn, who heckled flaggers to protest new state rules that curb police details and road and construction projects, which often earn officers $40 an hour.
You know what? I WANT the COP there!!!!!! It is called SERVING PUBLIC SAFETY and PROTECTING the PUBLIC!!! Oh, so he got a bit of overtime did he? So what? This state gives BILLIONS to CORPORATIONS that don't need it!!!! I'd rather my tax money go to the guy living around the corner, thank you!
The new regulations, which the administration estimates will save the state between $5.7 million and $7.2 million a year, replace officers with civilian flaggers on nearly all state roads where the speed limit is below 45 miles per hour as well as on low-traffic roads where the speed limit is higher. Civilians will also be used when barriers block construction sites on high-speed, high-traffic roads. Some projects can go forward without anyone directing traffic. --more--"
That's it? That's ALL we are going to save (given that the guy spends it locally)?
Talk about a DROP of water in an OCEAN of DEBT!!!
Of course, "flushing . . . millions of dollars away supporting a highly profitable industry" when it comes to $300 million in taxpayer dollars for Hollywood is o.k., even as the price of a school lunch rises; paying $13 million for a computer software system that could have cost less than $3 million is all right because the winner was a close friend of the House speaker, even as my poorer-than-dirt district "has been struggling to close a $2 million budget gap."; the lottery shelling out "millions of dollars" for sports tickets for "lottery officials, their family members, and friends" is fine, even as schools are closing; making interest payments to banks to the tune of "a staggering $22 billion" for the Big Pit, as we call it around here, is required, even as bridges are neglected across the state; and again, paying off banks like UBS, who can "demand repayment of an additional $2 million a month beginning in January" while also receiving a "$179 million payment," while the state pension fund loses $1 billion dollars -- which still didn't stop the executive director from carving himself a nice "$64,000 bonus on top of his $322,000 annual salary."
Oh, and did I not mention the $1 BILLION dollar giveaway to the pharmaceutical corporations, even though "it's never been easy to turn a profit in biotech?" Flush that money away, too, taxpayer. Of course, the war looters were next in line for a handout. And should the state be appropriating money for a "multimillion-dollar reconstruction" of golf courses?
Nor is it RECKLESS to BORROW the STATE INTO OBLIVION so they can PAY INTEREST to BANKS while SITTING ON $2 BILLION DOLLARS!
Need one final insult, Mass. taxpayers?
See: Massachusetts Gives More Money to Hollywood
Yup, but they are going SAVE MONEY by SCREWING the COPS!!!!!!
Don't you just get SICK of the BULLSHIT, Mass. taxpayers??!!!!
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot, the "liberal" government and governor care about YOU, so don't listen to me -- I only live here!!!
Update: No charges filed in protest against civilian flaggers
