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DAVID S. BERNSTEIN

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The overtime game

A successful lawsuit shows how Boston’s homicide detectives have gamed the system to line their own pockets
The problems haunting the Boston Police Department’s homicide unit — low arrest rates, cases rejected by juries, and exonerations of wrongfully convicted men — did not occur in a vacuum.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  May 04, 2006

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All the king's men

A letter from the same-sex fairy tale law suit  
A letter from the same-sex fairy tale law suit  
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  April 28, 2006

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Worst homicide squad in America

No justice for these child victims
Boston was riveted last week by a paralyzed little girl, Kai Leigh Harriott, who publicly forgave the man who fired the shot that put her in a wheelchair.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  April 20, 2006

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Romney watch

Where in the world is the governor’s credit card?
On January 19, in his annual State of the State speech, Governor Mitt Romney declared that Massachusetts is doing great — and then he and his staff promptly left.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  April 05, 2006

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A return to the shooting gallery

Over the Past six months, Boston has seen an average of one shooting a day — a level not reached since the early ’90s  
In Boston, one gunshot victim every other day is the norm; one every day is a crisis.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  March 28, 2006

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Your health is in their hands

Can the young pups and the working-screwed be saved by health-care-reform special interests?  
Depending on which numbers you believe, somewhere between 500,000 and 750,000 massachusetts residents have no health insurance.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  March 16, 2006

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The criminologist has no clothes

How do we know Kerry Healey is a criminal-justice expert? Because she says so.
As she sets her sights on promotion, Kerry Healey has resurrected and even expanded her grandiose claims to criminal-justice expertise originally made during her 2002 campaign for lieutenant governor.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  March 08, 2006

Wrongful convictions

After 16 years, is Roland Phinney innocent?
The state’s top prosecutors continue to insist that we don’t need an innocence commission, despite the two dozen or so wrongful convictions that have come to light. Roland Douglas Phinney Jr. might disagree.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  March 08, 2006

Just like Mitt

Weld flips on gay marriage
Don’t you just hate it when Republican Massachusetts governors kowtow to the right wing outside the Commonwealth?
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  March 01, 2006

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Justice delayed

Tom Reilly’s initiative on wrongful convictions stalled the legislature for two years — for what?
Two years ago, the drumbeat of wrongful convictions in Massachusetts had grown too loud to ignore: the release of Shawn Drumgold, Stephan Cowans, and Anthony Powell led to a Boston Herald /FOX25 report on 22 prisoners statewide released in the past two decades, thanks to new evidence.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  February 15, 2006

Hate groups

Jacob Robida: Good or bad PR for hate?
Jacob Robida, the teenager who assaulted patrons of a New Bedford gay bar and ultimately killed himself after a chase with police in Arkansas, does not appear to have been active in local neo-Nazi social circles.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  February 09, 2006

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Freedom in a T-Shirt

Harvey Silverglate on the State of the Union T-shirt controversy
At Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, Capitol police arrested antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan, who had arrived as a guest, because she was wearing an antiwar shirt (displaying “2242,” the number of US troop fatalities in Iraq).
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  February 03, 2006

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Bo-ston Homicides

Bo Dietl takes on the BPD  
If the Boston Police Department thinks the Boston Phoenix has been tough on its homicide squad, wait until they get a load of Robert “Bo” Dietl.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  February 02, 2006

Young guns

Menino touting Boston’s gun-violence “best practices”
This past Wednesday at the Capital Hill Hilton in Washington, DC, mayors from across the country were scheduled to sit down to a special session and learn how to combat youth gun violence.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  October 27, 2008

Young Republicans

Smith coed takes aim at Beacon Hill
What’s the deal lately with Smith College conservatives?
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  January 19, 2006

CHARGE: Wondering where Romney and his staff have been?

The presidential hunt

Mitt  Romney charges up the national campaign trail
Mitt Romney and his staff don’t leave home without their American Express cards — which gives the rest of us a chance to see exactly how, and where, they’ve been spending their gubernatorial campaign funds.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  January 14, 2006

Boston homicides

BPD, DA agree: We’re doing fine!
Surprise: local law-enforcement officials want to lay the blame for unsolved homicides on uncooperative witnesses.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  January 05, 2006

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No end in sight

Boston’s murder rate has doubled in five years — and may not have peaked yet. Here’s why.
Two years ago, Boston’s law-enforcement leaders were crowing over their defeat of the homicide problem. In retrospect, it was Boston’s version of Bush’s “Mission Accomplished.”
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN  |  January 04, 2006
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