Town dominated by ideologies moderately than frequent sense
Your 21 January editorial on Cambridge police nonetheless not utilizing physique cameras illustrates the elemental issues of a metropolis run by ideologies moderately than frequent sense, and what’s greatest for the general public welfare (“No more excuses. Cambridge police should use body cameras.”).
The circumstances behind the tragic taking pictures and demise of Sayed Faisal, who is claimed to be in nice misery, by Cambridge police won’t ever be identified. It’s because the at all times politically right Cambridge Metropolis Council has did not steadiness the overriding public curiosity of clear legislation enforcement with obscure privateness considerations. The council selected to please the sting group du jour. This unhappy assertion is emblematic of a metropolis the place municipal leaders focus extra on idyllic bike lanes than on the actual complexity of city life.
Barbara Anthony
Cambridge
The creator is a senior fellow on the Pioneer Institute, former undersecretary of State for the Workplace of Client Affairs and Commerce Regulation, and a former senior fellow and affiliate of the Middle for Enterprise and Authorities at Harvard Kennedy Faculty.
In case the police shoot, this was no peculiar knife
In your editorial on Cambridge law enforcement officials’ physique cameras, The Globe talked about a “knife” the deceased reportedly carried earlier than he was killed by police in Cambridge. In earlier Globe articles the knife was described as a kukri knife. However was it only a knife in your editorial?
A kukri knife is among the most harmful edged weapons obtainable. Alternatively, on the subject of speaking in regards to the police, I am not shocked that the Globe skipped a part of the story to elucidate its objective.
Greg Cronin
Newton
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