Raymond Leo Flynn is an American politician who served as the mayor of Boston,Massachusetts,from 1984 until 1993. He also served as United States Ambassador to the Holy See from 1993 to 1997.
Kathleen M. O'Toole is an American law enforcement officer who served as Chief of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) from June 23,2014,to January 4,2018. She was previously the first female commissioner of the Boston Police Department,when appointed by Mayor of Boston Thomas M. Menino in February 2004.
The Boston Police Department (BPD),dating back to 1838,holds the primary responsibility for law enforcement and investigation within the city of Boston,Massachusetts. It is the oldest municipal police department in the United States. The BPD is also the 20th largest law enforcement agency in the country.
CompStat—or COMPSTAT,short for Compare Stats—is a police management system created by the New York City Police Department in 1994 with assistance from the New York City Police Foundation. Under CompStat,the department keeps a daily-updated digital record of crimes reported and in weekly meetings the department's leadership gathers to review trends in the data. It was credited with decreased crime rates in NYC during its early years,though scholarship is divided on whether it played a role. It has been criticized for leading to data manipulation and increased stop-and-frisk searches. Variations of the program have been used in police departments worldwide.
William Joseph Bratton CBE is an American businessman and former law enforcement officer who served two terms as the New York City Police Commissioner. He previously served as the Commissioner of the Boston Police Department (BPD) (1993–1994) and Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) (2002–2009). He is the only person to have led the police departments of the United States' two largest cities –New York and Los Angeles.
Thomas Michael Menino was an American politician who served as the mayor of Boston,from 1993 to 2014. He was the city's longest-serving mayor. He was elected mayor in 1993 after first serving three months in the position of "acting mayor" following the resignation of his predecessor Raymond Flynn. Before serving as mayor,Menino was a member of the Boston City Council and had been elected president of the City Council in 1993.
The Chicago Housing Authority Police Department(also known as the CHAPD) was created as a supplement to the Chicago Police Department (CPD),to provide dedicated police services to the residents of one of the nation's most impoverished and crime ridden developments for low-income housing. The CHAPD accomplished their daily goals by utilizing "community oriented policing techniques and aggressive vertical patrol" of all Chicago Housing Authority public housing projects throughout the inner city of Chicago,Illinois and some suburban areas.
The Lowell Police Department (LPD) has the primary responsibility for law enforcement and investigation for a population of about 107,000 in the 14.5-square-mile (38 km2) city of Lowell,Massachusetts. Lowell is the fourth-largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is county seat of Middlesex County,Massachusetts. Gregory Hudon is the current superintendent of police. The department is a member of the North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council,which provides specialized units throughout the region.
Jack Maple was a New York City deputy police commissioner for operations and crime control strategies,succeeded by Ed Norris. He created the CompStat methodology of crime fighting and law enforcement strategy,co-authored the book The Crime Fighter,and inspired the television series The District.
The Ghana Police Service (GPS) is the main law enforcement agency of Ghana. The service is under the control of the Ghanaian Ministry of the Interior,and employs over 30,000 officers across its 651 stations.
The Boston mayoral election of 1993 occurred on Tuesday,November 2,1993,between Acting Mayor Thomas Menino and State Representative James T. Brett. Menino was elected to his first term.
Francis Michael Roache was an American law enforcement officer and politician who served as the Boston Police Commissioner from 1985 to 1993. He was also a member of the Boston City Council from 1996 to 2002 and was Suffolk County Register of Deeds from 2002 to 2015.
Edward F. Davis III is the former police commissioner of the Boston Police Department,having served from 2006 to 2013,including during the Boston Marathon bombing. Following his resignation from the police,Davis has been the security analyst for WBZ-TV in Boston. He is the founder and CEO of Edward Davis,LLC Security and Management Consulting.
Joseph Michael Jordan was an American law enforcement officer who served as Commissioner of the Boston Police Department from 1976 to 1985. He was the first uniformed BPD officer to rise through the ranks to become commissioner.
William B. Evans is currently serving as the executive director of public safety and chief of police of Boston College. Previously,Evans was the commissioner of the Boston Police Department from January 2014 until August 2018. Evans served as interim commissioner from November 2013 until he was permanently appointed by newly elected mayor Marty Walsh. He announced his retirement from the Boston Police Department in July 2018. He currently serves as the chief of the Boston College police department. A graduate of Suffolk University,Evans holds a master's degree in cybersecurity from Boston College and another master's in criminal justice from Anna Maria College. He is also a graduate of the FBI’s National Academy,FBI's National Executive Institute,Department of Homeland Security Post Naval Executive Leaders Program and received several certificates from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in subjects ranging from homeland security to preparedness leadership. He is active in several professional organizations,including the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the Major Cities Chiefs Association,and is currently an adjunct professor at Boston College and Boston University.
Boston City Council elections were held on November 6,2001. Nine seats were contested in the general election,as the incumbents for districts 1,5,8,and 9 ran unopposed. Two seats had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 25,2001.
William G. Gross is a former American police officer who served as Commissioner of the Boston Police Department for 29 months,from August 2018 to January 2021.
Dermot Francis Shea is an American police officer who was the 44th New York City Police Commissioner. He assumed the position on December 1,2019,and was sworn in by Mayor Bill de Blasio in a public ceremony on December 2.
Dennis A. White is a police officer who was Commissioner of the Boston Police Department. After being sworn in on February 1,2021,White was placed on leave two days later,as the city conducted an investigation into a 1999 allegation of domestic violence against his wife and teenage daughter. On June 7,2021,Acting Mayor Kim Janey fired White after legal challenges.
Thomas Menino served as mayor of Boston,Massachusetts from 1993 through 2014. He is the longest serving mayor in the city's history. Menino first became acting mayor in July 1993,after Raymond Flynn resigned as mayor to assume the post of United States ambassador to the Holy See. Menino was elected mayor in the subsequent 1993 Boston mayoral election,and was reelected to additional terms in the four subsequent elections,making for an unprecedented and unsurpassed twenty year tenure. On March 28,2013,Menino announced that he would not seek a sixth term.
