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RailRoad_Candy t1_jacmceq wrote

This is the same Healey that refused to prosecute state troopers for massive overtime abuses, aka fraud, right?! Same person?

But she also cheered the burning of cities during the summer riots a few years ago, so I mean, as long as your shit isn't burning down I'm sure you're happy.

I'll hold my breath as I expect her to do jack and shit. She's going to be running for President soon enough and she's going to want support from the Fraternal Brotherhood of Cops or whatever the fuck they call themselves. So yeah...she's not doing shit.

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Boston1_ t1_jaclv11 wrote

I love how everyone on /Boston (and mayor Wu) usually defends these guys as “just kids having fun”, they’ve literally been a gang of criminals using the off road vehicles as a way to outrun the cops for years and have committed crimes such as shootings, rape, murder, even holding a guy down and driving over his head causing him critical injuries…

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Boston1_ t1_jaclfky wrote

Reply to comment by ratbas in Always Wondered by PompyxgTV

If arrested it would be towed. These cars are just abandoned. Most are tweakers or transients, the car runs out of gas and they just abandon it.

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Chippopotanuse t1_jackyuf wrote

This is the exact reason why most of the Diehl/MAGA morons were afraid of Healey being governor. Those folks love and want overpaid authoritarian assholes on our police forces.

No sane person would object to a change of culture and new leadership at the state police. The current state of affairs with these troopers is abysmal and embarrassing.

> It’s not just the overtime abuse scandal, or the allegations of discrimination, or even the perpetually testy State Police troopers who bark at Logan Airport passengers that cry out for a leadership change at Massachusetts’ only statewide law enforcement agency.

> No, it’s the culture that pervades the agency that has allowed all of that to fester — the corruption, the sexism and racism, the everyday rudeness. What the Massachusetts State Police need at the helm is someone who can be a change agent, someone who isn’t a creature of the system, raised in its antiquated pseudo-military model.

> And for the first time in the history of the force, this governor at this critical moment has the authority to reach beyond the ranks of current State Police officers to appoint its next superintendent. Governor Maura Healey should make use of the opportunity the state’s landmark police reform law now offers her and look for that much needed agent of change.

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psychicsword t1_jackv31 wrote

> Lexington would require a rental car or Uber

It can be reached by bike as well. That would be much cheaper than renting a car or Uber and it is a great way to see more of the suburbs while traveling to the Lexington Battle Green.

I probably wouldn't use a blue bike and I would rent a bike specifically for it but it technically is possible.

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symonym7 t1_jackch6 wrote

I’d imagine companies like Blackrock would be paying out pensions in part using rent from properties they own/will own. My understanding of this is abysmal, but it fits the boomers-siphoning-wealth-from-younger-generations narrative fairly well.

Meanwhile, my social security deductions for February would cover ~3wks of groceries.

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