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Despite some concerns over the need for deeper police budget cuts, the Boston City Council passed the city’s $3.61 billion budget for Fiscal Year 2021.   According to WBZ, City Councilor Andrea [...]

From BPD News BPD Community Alert: The Boston Police Department seeks the public’s help to identify the above pictured individual in connection to an ongoing death investigation. Anyone with information [...]

Boston City Council has voted unanimously to pass a ban on the use of facial surveillance technology in the city.  The vote took place on Wednesday around 12:45pm. City Councilors [...]

It appears that “substantial errors” in decisions made by leaders at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home led to the outbreak of COVID-19 leaving 76 residents dead from the disease so far. [...]

UPDATE From BPD News: At about 1:51 AM on Tuesday June 23, 2020, officers assigned to District B-3 (Mattapan) responded to a radio call for a person shot in the [...]

From BPD News At about 2:47 PM on Sunday, June 14, 2020, officers assigned to District B-2 (Roxbury) responded to a radio call for a found body in the area [...]

From BPD News At about 9:30 PM on Friday, June 19, 2020, officers assigned to District B-2 (Roxbury) responded to a radio call for fireworks in the area of 22 [...]

Please see below for updates from Mayor Walsh’s COVID-19 press briefing on Thursday, June 18, 2020. Statement on the Supreme Court decision on DACA: This morning, the Supreme Court blocked the Trump [...]

After receiving negative criticism via social media on Thursday afternoon from City Councilor at-Large Michelle Wu and City Council President Andrea Campbell, William Gross, commissioner of BPD released the following statement: Regarding Meeting [...]

Last week, Mayor Marty Walsh reported that complaints about fireworks in the city of Boston are up 2300% and BPD confiscated a large amount of illegal fireworks in South Boston, and Mattapan, in [...]