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VOLUME 36 - NO. 2
MARCH/APRIL 2006
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Editor’s Note: Shortly before press time, the City proposed yet another new test form, similar to MCAS tests, with “fill-in-the-bubbles.” However, this new form has not been officially produced yet, so we have to use the form shown here:
New ‘anti-profiling’ form forces cops to make racist choices By Jim Carnell, Pax Editor
INSTRUCTIONS: 1.) fill out the above form on all occasions when you interact with a motorist, whether or not a citation is issued, when you respond to simple car accidents, assist a disabled motorist, or investigate a parked, occupied car. 2.) Choose one of the following limited, undefined racial categories to box each operator into: A.) Asian or Pacific Islander B.) Black C.) Hispanic D.) American Indian/Alaskan Native E.) Middle Eastern or East Indian (South Asian) E.) White. You cannot ask people what category they belong to, nor may you put more than one category (mixed race), nor may you put “unknown” or leave the box blank. You must “guess” an operator’s race/ethnicity based on unknown criteria and during the often-contentious occasion of issuing a motor vehicle citation. 3.) This form is a public record and a legal document. Be prepared to defend your racial/ethnic “picks” in a court of law or other administrative body. See related story inside on page A11
“Muni”-merger or political patronage? City seeks to circumvent civil service/ veteran’s preference by hiring hacks By Jim Carnell, Pax Editor
Shortly before press time, the City of Boston, through their consorts at the Boston Globe, announced that they were seriously moving forward towards their goal of hiring political patronage employees from the so-called “Boston Municipal Police/Security” as regular, full-time Boston Police officers. Despite the existence of a certified civil-service
hiring list and despite the availability of many, many qualified veterans of the armed forces returning home from duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, the City is apparently using the current shortage of Boston Police officers as an excuse for hiring the sons, daughters and relatives of an obscure agency renowned as a patronage haven for those who continued on page A3