I started with a bit of a bang but quickly plunged back to earth once I started turning the pages:
"Stopping injustice or putting the public at risk? Suffolk DA Rachael Rollins’s tactics spur pushback" by Andrea Estes and Shelley Murphy Globe Staff, July 6, 2019
Rachael Rollins came into office promising to shake things up at the Suffolk district attorney’s office.
It was of primary concern, if you ask me.
Armed with a list of 15 “low-level” nonviolent offenses that her office would no longer prosecute, Rollins said she planned to help stop a “freight train moving toward mass incarceration of poor people and black and brown people.”
Now, less than six months into her tenure as the first African-American woman to serve as Suffolk County’s top prosecutor, Rollins is making good on her promise, but getting strong pushback as her office increasingly dismisses charges at the very beginning of a case, sparing defendants a criminal record.
Some fellow prosecutors as well as police officials fear that Rollins is compromising
ROLLINS, Page A10
So I began with the left-middle, above-the-fold feature with the intent to turn in and continue reading.
The nominal lead in the right-hand corner was something I wasn't interested in at the moment, and I didn't want to take my chances with what was peaking up from below.
I hadn't even opened the Sunday Globe yet and it was Game Over!
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California earthquake rattles a state wary of the ‘Big One’
Armed Utah teachers practice responding to school shootings
"A right-wing rally at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington on Saturday led to skirmishes with counterprotesters as a massive contingent of District of Columbia police worked to maintain order. Black-clad antifascists, known as antifa, briefly marched along city streets, and police repelled their attempts to erect a barricade with newspaper boxes and chairs. Police had earlier broken up a clash between that group and the Proud Boys, a self-proclaimed Western-chauvinist fraternal organization that promotes ending welfare and closing the borders. Up until then, the rally by the Proud Boys and other groups to protest being blocked on social media had been relatively peaceful. There were a few tense exchanges, but District Police Chief Peter Newsham said no arrests were made. He said he’d sent extra officers to block off streets. Organizers of both rallies had said they were not looking to instigate violence but were ready to respond. Authorities said they were ready as well (Washington Post)."
I expect the next couple of years will be full of violent confrontations, for antifa “believes violence is actually a pretty good tool to use against people who don’t agree with their worldview,” as the Globe offers them wholehearted support.
"The Federal Aviation Administration is looking into whether Delta Air Lines violated FAA rules about promoting safety at a time when President Trump’s pick to lead the agency was in charge of Delta’s flight operations. The FAA investigation grew out of allegations by a Delta pilot that the airline retaliated against her for raising safety concerns. Trump’s nominee, Stephen Dickson, is under growing criticism from Senate Democrats over his initial failure to disclose his involvement in the case of the whistle-blowing pilot, who was grounded a few weeks after she raised safety issues to Dickson and other Delta executives. Dickson authorized grounding the pilot for a psychiatric evaluation. Outside doctors later cleared her, and she has since returned to flying at Delta..... (AP)."
I guess Boeing is in the clear, huh?
"A vacant pizza restaurant exploded Saturday in a thundering roar at a South Florida shopping plaza, injuring more than 20 people as large chunks of concrete flew through the air. The blast flung debris along a busy road in Plantation, west of Fort Lauderdale. The restaurant was destroyed, and nearby businesses and cars were damaged. Though firefighters found ruptured gas lines afterward, authorities said it was too early to determine a cause..... (AP)."
[Full page Total Wine ad A3]
Dirty, hungry, scared, and sick: Inside Clint’s razor wire
The New York Times says most people around Clint had little idea of what went on inside, sort of like the Germans and the concentration camps.
"They paid nearly a half-million in ransom. Where’s the info?" by Frances Robles New York Times, July 6, 2019
LAKE CITY, Fla. — Weeks after the city’s insurer paid the ransom, the phones are back on and e-mail is once again working, but the city has still not recovered all of its files. There is a possibility that thousands of pages of documents that had been painstakingly digitized by Audrey Sikes, city clerk of Lake City, and her team will have to be manually scanned, again.
“It puts us years and years and years behind,” Sikes said.
Lake City’s troubles are hardly unique. In the past month alone, at least three Florida cities have been victims of ransomware attacks, after intrusions on larger cities such as Atlanta, Dallas, and Baltimore.
What sets the latest cyberattacks apart is the stunning size of their ransom demands. As cities rush to protect their data — and others scramble to recover it — experts on cybersecurity say the growing number of attacks and escalating ransom demands suggest that cyberattackers have found a ripe target: small governments with weak computer protections and strong insurance policies. The payments keep coming even as the FBI says they might be incentivizing more attacks.
Cities, in response, are rushing to beef up their backup systems and train employees to avoid malicious spearphishing e-mails, the most common means of attack, in which hackers send an innocuous-looking e-mail with an attachment or link that spreads the malicious code. Lake City had fallen victim to what is called a triple-threat Ryuk attack, which is usually spread through spearphishing e-mails. The city does not know who clicked on what attachments, and said it could not disclose some information because of a pending FBI investigation.....
The insurer’s negotiator settled on a payment of 42 Bitcoins, or about $460,000, and one would think the Five Eyes electronic $urveillance $y$tem could track it.
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The solution is simple: delete all e-mail without opening.
[Page A5, full page ad for The Preserve at Boulder Hills]
Virtual pre-K closes a gap, and exposes it
They are “kindergarten readiness programs” for 4-year-olds that take place almost entirely online, so the gamer should be just fine.
What is interesting is what didn't make print:
Jeffrey Epstein, billionaire long accused of molesting minors, charged in New York
The New York Times scrubbed it pretty good, but all you really need to know is Epstein's Lolita Express and blackmail vehicle trafficked in underaged teenage girls while being friends with President Donald Trump and former president Bill Clinton, among others.
I suppose you don't want elites throughout the region puking up their Sunday breakfasts.
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Europe built a system to fight Russian meddling. It’s struggling.
Kashmiris call for investigation of torture accusations against India
I'd been lulled to sleep regarding the region, and when are they going to get a vote for independence like South Sudan and Kosovo?
"As at all casinos, making visitors of all backgrounds feel comfortable is good for the bottom line, and that comfort could entice people to gamble away money they can’t afford to lose, specialists said. It’s a concern felt acutely in some Asian communities, especially those that have long had an affinity for games of chance. “It’s a difficult place for us,” said Giles Li, who directs the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center. Li worries that outreach aimed at wealthy Asians might also bring in “our neighbors who come from a similar culture” but have less financial flexibility. “Chinese people enjoy trying their luck,” said Winnie Tan, who lives near Chinatown, said people visit the casino because it’s fun, as she wandered the art-filled casino lobby with her husband. Everyone ought to set a gambling budget for their visit to the casino, said Michael Weaver, a spokesman for Wynn Resorts, which owns Encore Boston Harbor. Specialists said high-end casinos like those run by Wynn Resorts are adept at catering to a broad clientele that crosses lines of gender, class, ethnicity, race, and nationality. There’s no charge to get in, and the luxury — from the red Venetian crystal chandeliers to the $28 million Popeye statue near the lobby entrance — is accessible. “At a property like this, you’re going to get everybody from the premium player who is being flown into Logan to the fanny packer from Framingham,” said Joseph Weinert, a specialist in the casino business at Spectrum Gaming Group, an independent consultancy. “Nobody is going to go to a Four Seasons just to look around; in a casino you can do that,” Weinert said....."
They need you "Chinese twentysomethings" to go gamble your money away.
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The second half of the A-section began on page A9 with these:
North Korea says released Australian student was spying
Of course he was; otherwise, he isn't making the pre$$.
Boris Johnson sparks outrage, saying everyone in Britain should speak English first
Yeah, that will cost him the election.
Rescue ship defies order not to dock
Should have taken a bus.
Pope OK’s miracle for Bishop Sheen
Lithuanian duo win wife-carrying title
Do I even need to comment about that "news"?
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ROLLINS
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public safety by letting criminals off the hook, while some judges have scolded her assistants in open court for letting repeat offenders go and sometimes not requesting bail in serious cases, but Rollins’s new policy has supporters as well, including some who are pushing Rollins to go even further in dismissing cases and setting lower bail.
It's that old saying, once a liberal is mugged they become a conservative.
Rollins, for her part, said that she’s simply taking a more holistic approach to law enforcement than her predecessors.
“I represent not just the victim, but the defendant and the community,” Rollins said during a lengthy sit-down interview about the changes she has pushed. She said her focus is not only on what the victim wants, but on who the defendant is and whether he or she may need help more than prosecution.
She just showed she doesn't understand the job. She is to represent the community and the victims, not the defendant. That's why they have defense lawyers and public defender offices.
Then again, who would want to argue with her?
Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said, “I represent not just the victim, but the defendant and the community.”(Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff/File)
A Globe review of Rollins’s record reveals that, not only is the Suffolk DA dropping more cases than before, but some of the cases don’t seem “low-level” at all, involving serious bodily injury, major thefts, and career criminals.
Some police, court clerks, and fellow prosecutors say they fear her policy is putting the public at risk and emboldening criminals to believe they can commit crimes with impunity. They acknowledge that many criminal cases are ultimately dismissed, but say failing to prosecute certain crimes is as counterproductive as prosecuting every crime, without taking into account individual circumstances.
The thing is, by not prosecuting the crime rates won't rise.
“District attorneys should pursue justice for their communities without any pre-determined agenda,” wrote Michael O’Keefe, Cape and Islands district attorney, in a Globe Op-Ed that referred to Rollins’s policy without naming her.
No, not today. The pre-determined agenda of political correctness holds sway.
Police in several Suffolk County communities have expressed misgivings about Rollins’s approach, including Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association president Mike Leary. He said city police officers disagree with the policy and will continue to arrest people who break the law.
“We have a country of laws,” Leary said. “You can’t have open drug dealing. It drives cities and towns down. It grinds them into the ground. Crime will go up. Shootings will occur.’’
On the other side, a group called Court Watch MA is pushing Rollins to drop more charges and set lower bail amounts that people can afford. High bails, they say, have resulted in too many poor and minority defendants being jailed while awaiting trial, while the more affluent can afford to buy their freedom.
Rollins said she feels she’s been subjected to far more scrutiny than her male predecessors, but largely missing from the debate so far have been the voices of the victims.....
Oh, man, she is waving the gender card?!!
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Nothing to worry about. Just drug dealers, the violent prone, and mentally ill being let back out on the street.
Husband of Rep. Pressley benefited from Rollins’s new approach to traffic violations
Just a suspended license, and why bother having them at all then?
Closing down the RMV sure would save a lot of money!
Glad to see political influence isn't playing a role in Ma$$achu$etts.
Related (from page B1):
"‘I’m just in disbelief’: Witnesses describe Boston shooting that injured six" by Laura Crimaldi Globe Staff, July 6, 2019
Shateara Harmon, 29, who survived a stabbing in 2005 and was struck by an errant bullet at a party in 2010, was expected to undergo surgery Saturday, her sister, Quanisha Harmon, said. In 2010, their brother, Jamil Harmon, 26, was fatally stabbed as he walked to a store on Blue Hill Avenue.
“It’s just very traumatic,” Quanisha Harmon, 30, said. “We’re already dealing with a loss. My brother’s murder has been unsolved since 2010.”
“It was just too much,” said their mother, who ran outside when she heard the gunfire. She declined to give her name or identify her daughters, whom she described as “innocent bystanders.”
Speaking to reporters near the shooting scene early Saturday morning, Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins delivered a message.
“Whoever was engaged in this behavior, we will find you and hold you accountable,” she said. “This community deserves to be able to walk outside and enjoy the Fourth of July just as other communities are able to do.”
OMFG!
Let's wait and see who it is, first!
She is a real piece of work, and who voted her in?
At a news conference early Saturday, Boston Police Commissioner William G. Gross said urged anyone with information about the crime to come forward and help investigators.
So she can dismiss the charges?
Btw, Mayor Walsh “shares the outrage.”
The city of Boston dispatched a trauma team to the neighborhood immediately following the shooting. On Saturday, team members returned to the area, where they greeted residents and left information pamphlets about services.
I know it's the city, but the horse is already out of the barn (was let out).
The shooting, which occurred around 11:13 p.m. Friday, followed an outburst of violence on the Fourth of July, when an 8-year-old girl and 35-year-old man were injured by gunfire at Mary Hannon Park in Dorchester.
Oh.
That sure makes the city and Rollins look bad!
On Maple Street Saturday afternoon, a pair of plainclothes Boston police investigators visited an apartment building across from the shooting scene. A group of people gathered in the driveway where the barbecue had been going on declined to comment.
Sheril Rhodes, 53, a home health aide from Brockton, said, “You could have sworn I was a quarterback or something in a football game, diving for the end zone and a touchdown. I dove right under the bed.”
She said she stayed on the ground until she saw blue lights from police cruisers shine through the window. “I’m not coming to Boston no more,” Rhodes said. “My life is too valuable.”
Another woman who lives in a nearby building and declined to give her name, said, “I told my mom that we have to move.”
Quanisha Harmon, who said she hasn’t been able to eat since the shooting, clutched a half-full container of orange juice that she had been drinking to sustain herself.....
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Also see: Man dies after early-morning shooting in Springfield
He was shot outside a McDonald’s.
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Page A13 through A19 are all obituaries, while this was at the bottom of page A20:
"Melania Trump gets a statue near her hometown, carved by chain saw" by Palko Karasz New York Times, July 6, 2019
LONDON — Public reaction to the statue has been unkind. Some observers have described it as a scarecrow. Many said the statue reminded them of unfortunate tributes to other celebrities like a silver statue of soccer star David Beckham wearing nothing but tight underwear, and a crazed-looking bust of soccer striker Cristiano Ronaldo.
Some social media users said the wooden statue perfectly complemented the wooden public appearances of the first lady. Sevnica, in rural Slovenia, has welcomed Melania Trump’s rise to global prominence with a multitude of tributes and attractions. Local businesses sell everything from Melania salami to Melania slippers.
As for President Trump, he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame to mark his achievements in another life, as a television impresario. In 2007, he joked that it was his favorite piece of real estate — before vandals took a pickax to smash it into bits in 2018 and scrawled obscenities on it to protest against his policies, but there is at least one serious tribute to Donald Trump, a bust in Oklahoma. Less flatteringly, protesters have erected life-size nude statues of him in several cities in the United States and have flown a “Trump Baby” balloon at protests in several countries.
The statue was commissioned by an American artist, Brad Downey, who says it’s the first monument to Melania Trump, that the reaction of residents in the first lady’s native country did not all amount to criticism, and that many were, in fact, happy to have the statue. In fact, he said, residents had promised to take care of it for years to come.....
Time to wave goodbye!
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It's a thing, man.
Is it just me, or is this edition of the Sunday Bo$ton Globe nothing but filler and fluff?
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In Massachusetts, ‘aldermen’ are nearly extinct
A win for #MeToo!
Bikers pay tribute to victims of deadly N.H. motorcycle crash
As predicted!
Dr. Norman L. Sadowsky, pioneering Faulkner Hospital radiologist, dies at 88
Brockton Mayor Bill Carpenter to lie in state at City Hall
Man injured in fall on rocks at Gloucester quarry
Kevin Spacey accuser abruptly drops civil lawsuit
He's moving to London because his career here is history.
Rob Delaney and other famous fans mourn the end of MAD Magazine
Marvel’s first openly trans actor Zach Barack calls for more portrayals
Jay-Z’s companies sue NYC licensing firm for fraud
At Fenway, Phish rallies after a tentative start
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Summer on the Cape means shark panic, but what if.....
There are no lifeguards?
Trump wants to deny transgender rights on religious grounds, but what if gender identity, itself, is a matter of the soul?
Or just a marketing opportunity?
Boston aside, busing was a success
Will Gen-Z Save the World?
They passed on the opportunity.
How the Hebrew Bible molded revolutionary America
So that explains the Zionist vice grip on our society -- even though they supported the crown.
Just another one of those searing generational moments that become myth and are made into a movie.
