Time Machine.
By Jim Conley • Jan 24th, 2008 • Category: BPD of Counsel, Brookline Police, St. Aidan's, The Allen FilesI’m hearing about events a few years back that ought to prove to Brookline residents that the politicization of the Brookline PD is not a recent event.
Sure, a lot has come to light in the past few months - as in the police chief and town administrator smearing Selectman Gil Hoy on rumored “contact with [...]
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A Dirty Dozen.
By Jim Conley • Dec 16th, 2007 • Category: BPD of Counsel, Brawl at Town Hall, Brookline Selectmen, The Allen FilesThe Globe’s “City Weekly” section covers last week’s whitewash of police actions toward Arthur Conquest and says the matter is, “not likely to go away soon.” Amen to that.
And like many things is Brookline, there’s more to the story than this one incident. Consider this passage from the Globe story:
“In the 12 years [...]
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Jesse Mermell’s Political Expediency.
By Jim Conley • Dec 12th, 2007 • Category: BPD of Counsel, Brawl at Town Hall, Brookline Politics, Brookline Selectmen, Police Reports, The Allen FilesI suppose that there is more than one story line coming out of last night’s decision by three Brookline Selectmen - Nancy Daly, Jesse Mermell and Robert “The Mensch” Allen - not to hear more evidence on alleged police mis-conduct from May’s Brawl at Town Hall.
There’s the all-in-the-family angle with the sergeant nephew being a [...]
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Joseph K. Does Brookline.
By Jim Conley • Dec 8th, 2007 • Category: BPD of Counsel, Brawl at Town Hall, Brookline Selectmen, The Allen FilesAt the risk of adding to the pile of trite that is used to describe an ordeal with the agents of authority, it’s fair to say that Arthur Conquest’s odyssey with the Brookline Police is Kafkaesque. And now, with news that the Clueless Five (i.e., the Brookline Selectmen) will next [...]
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Great Moments in Megolomania (2).
By Jim Conley • Nov 28th, 2007 • Category: BPD of Counsel, Brawl at Town Hall, Brookline PoliticsForget that I said it’s time we started hearing from our local lights on civil liberties with respect to May’s Brawl at Town Hall. Tomorrow’s TAB features the rambling incoherence a column from Brookline PAX co-chair and self-proclaimed local civil rights leader Martin Rosenthal [try to read the column by clicking here].
Thank God [...]
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The Sergeant Nephew.
By Jim Conley • Nov 9th, 2007 • Category: BPD of Counsel, Brawl at Town Hall, Brookline Selectmen, Police Reports, The Allen FilesI wonder if we can get the internal investigation report - concerning allegations of police mistreatment during May 24th’s Brawl at Town Hall - into the time capsule placed in the monstrosity above the wine store at Coolidge Corner. It is the narrative for Brookline at the dawn of the millennium.
And the passage that [...]
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Time for an Independent Police Panel (2).
By Jim Conley • Nov 8th, 2007 • Category: BPD of Counsel, Brawl at Town Hall, Brookline Politics, Brookline Selectmen, The Allen FilesIf we didn’t need to worry about the politicization of the Brookline Police Department, we do now.
The Brookline Police Executive Board has an op-ed in today’s TAB responding to last week’s column by Arthur Conquest concerning the Brawl at Town Hall. With this, there’s now ample reason for an independent investigation into the [...]
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Time for an Independent Police Panel.
By Jim Conley • Nov 2nd, 2007 • Category: BPD of Counsel, Brawl at Town Hall, Brookline Selectmen, The Allen FilesHere’s the internal police investigation into the May 24th Brawl at Town Hall [read it here].
Word from Arthur Conquest is that he will appeal the findings of this report to the Brookline Selectmen. I guarantee readers this, the appeal hearing will be another mob rule affair akin to the January 2006 hearing when Selectman [...]
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Pimp My Town (2).
By Jim Conley • Oct 24th, 2007 • Category: BPD of Counsel, Brawl at Town Hall, Brookline Selectmen, Spooner Road, The Allen FilesSources tell me that the same police officers who rushed into court to charge Town Meeting Member Arthur Conquest from the Brawl at Town Hall [view the police reports here] were also involved in another arrest at the site of a controversial real estate development a few years back. The where and when is [...]
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I Think My Head is Going to Explode.
By Jim Conley • Mar 10th, 2007 • Category: BPD of Counsel, The Allen FilesRecently I was given a list of lawyers who make up the law firm of Robert L. Allen, Jr. (the Chair of the Brookline Selectmen). Listed among the barristers is “Richard Allen, Of Counsel.” Richard Allen? You mean Robert’s younger brother? Seems so.
Big deal? Well, Richard Allen is also a lieutenant [...]
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Damn Those Details.
By Jim Conley • Mar 9th, 2007 • Category: BPD of Counsel, Liquor Licenses, The Allen FilesHere’s an interesting item from the TAB’s “crime watch” section of January 31, 2007:
Hitesh Dagasheeya, 30, of 33 Ridgecrest St., West Roxbury, was arrested at 12:55 a.m., in the area of Harvard and Washington streets [emphasis added] and charged with conspiracy to commit a felony (receiving stolen property).
Police were investigating the buying and selling of [...]
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