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By Michele McPhee
Boston Herald Police Bureau Chief
Friday, August 10, 2007

Boston police brass are stealthily hitting the streets in a sweeping crackdown on cops who fail to show up for lucrative paid details, talk excessively on their cell phones at job sites and commit other infractions that tarnish the badge, the Herald has learned.
Over the past two weeks, Superintendent Dan Linskey, chief of patrol officers, has been checking on cops on private details to ensure that they are on post, well dressed and not idling in air-conditioned cars, smoking in the street or having prolonged cell phone calls.
“I don’t like them sitting in the cars. I don’t like when they are staring into a hole. I don’t like long cell phone conversations on the street. And appearance is very important to me,” Linskey said.

Any cop found not doing the job properly is reprimanded and asked not to turn in the $37-an-hour detail card for payment, Linskey said.


Details have long posed an image problem for police departments across the state. Massachusetts is one of the only states in the country that requires utility companies, contractors and trouble-prone nightclubs to hire uniformed officers to patrol sites and direct traffic.


Critics contend that paid details add millions to taxpayer funded construction projects such as the Big Dig while forcing Keyspan, NStar [NST], Verizon and other utilities to pass the costs on to bill payers.


Public safety officials also blame police fatigue from working too many details to increases in on-the-job accidents, injuries and misconduct cases.


Union officials argue that paid details put more officers on the street at “private” expense. Indeed, Linskey pointed out that detail cops play a valuable role in public safety. Detail officers, he noted, were the first on the scene last week when an elderly woman was brutalized and raped in her South End home.


Full Story: http://news.bostonherald.com/localRe...icleid=1016366

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Posted by: mikemac64

Not only is McPhee a half-assed reporter, an alleged "crime reporter" at that, she is the worst radio host on the air in Boston.

Shrill to say the least.

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Posted by: justanotherparatrooper

She sounds like fingernails being dragged across a chalkboard

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Posted by: HousingCop

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Originally Posted by mikemac64 Not only is McPhee a half-assed reporter, an alleged "crime reporter" at that, she is the worst radio host on the air in Boston. Shrill to say the least.

Michelle McPhee's voice makes Marjorie Claprood sound like a 1-900 phone sex operator. Not that I know what one of those sounds like.............

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