Read on Twitter
These responses to the Mayor’s tweet are telling, and utterly unsurprising given the city’s track record on public transit, affordable housing, education, policing, etc. https://twitter.com/marty_walsh/status/1299383786761748483
In which @jmlarkin unpacks Boston’s “intensely segregated” schools. http://www.wbur.org/edify/2020/01/22/boston-foundation-bps-race-income-inequities
Here’s @simonfrios with a look at the discrimination Black people face in Boston when trying to rent homes. https://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2020/07/01/study-black-renters-in-boston-face-deep-discrimination-subsidized-renters-face-even-more
. @allyjarmanning (aka the pub records queen)’s digging into body cameras and BPD. https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/10/17/boston-police-straight-pride-body-cameras-overtime
And my reporting on BPD’s close working relationship with ICE. http://www.wbur.org/news/2019/10/25/boston-police-immigration-officers-relationship-documents
Oh!
Don’t forget the racial breakdown of the city’s gang database...
Here's a snapshot of that breakdown as of January 2, 2019:
•66.4% black non-Hispanic
•14.1% white Hispanic
•9.7% black Hispanic
•2.3 % white non-Hispanic
•0.4% Asian http://www.wbur.org/news/2019/07/26/boston-police-gang-database-immigration
Don’t forget the racial breakdown of the city’s gang database...
Here's a snapshot of that breakdown as of January 2, 2019:
•66.4% black non-Hispanic
•14.1% white Hispanic
•9.7% black Hispanic
•2.3 % white non-Hispanic
•0.4% Asian http://www.wbur.org/news/2019/07/26/boston-police-gang-database-immigration
