The last part is first for it did not make my printed paper:
"West Indian Day Parade held under shadow of violence" Associated Press September 02, 2014
NEW YORK — Colorful floats, elaborate costumes, politicians, and merrymakers filled Brooklyn’s streets Monday for the annual West Indian Day Parade, a massive Caribbean celebration that was marred by a fatal shooting nearby before the official festivities got underway.
The annual parade — which draws about 1 million people — features loud music and louder costumes, but the march often kicks off under a shadow of violence, and this year’s was no different....
Same in Boston, and it shows no signs of slowing down.
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Looks like someone threw an apple threw your window.
"Diversity in ranks limited, Mass. police try to build links; Missouri strife heightens attention to efforts in Mass. departments" by Milton J. Valencia and Evan Allen | Globe Staff September 02, 2014
The state’s eight most ethnically and racially diverse communities are still policed by a predominantly white corps of officers, despite years of efforts to dispel perceptions of racism and diversify their ranks.
But against the backdrop of unrest in Ferguson, Mo., many local law enforcement officials say they have worked to forge relationships with community groups that would quell the type of outrage that exploded in Ferguson following the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white officer.
“You’ve got to have those partnerships, so that if something does happen, you can reach out to either side,” said Kevin Coppinger, the police chief in Lynn, whose department has sought to make inroads in a Latino community that makes up 31 percent of the city’s population.
“You’ve got to have a dialogue,” Coppinger said.
In Ferguson, much has been made of the racial divide between the police department and the community: While nearly 70 percent of Ferguson’s residents are black, more than 94 percent of the department is white.
Disparities in Massachusetts are not as stark. But local officials acknowledge that they have struggled for years to diversify police department ranks, a challenge they attribute to failed recruitment efforts and obstructive state Civil Service rules that govern hiring.
“Ferguson brought this to the forefront, but we’ve always been having this conversation,” said Mayor Daniel Rivera of Lawrence, acknowledging a disparity in his city of 76,331, where white residents make up only about 20 percent of the population, but account for nearly 77 percent of the police force....
I wonder when the chickens are going to come home to roost.
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Yeah, who remembers Ken Howe now?
