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...whether the break-ins were connected. No crime alert was sent out to the Harvard community, according to Harvard University Police Department spokesman Steven G. Catalano. A resident of Walker Street, found that her 1999 Plymouth Voyager had been broken into at approximately 7:45 a.m., according to a CPD police report. The passenger’s-side window was smashed and her GPS holder and charger were stolen. The victim told police that she discovered at least two other vehicles parked along the street were broken into also. The victim, who is a tutor in Pforzheimer House, also sent...
...tree. Four days later, a female undergraduate from Boston University was robbed on Garden Street as she traveled from Currier House to the Harvard Square MBTA station. Investigations of these three incidents are being conducted by the Cambridge Police Department, since they occurred outside HUPD jurisdiction. The CPD could not be reached for comment. HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano said that the recent crimes do not represent a rise in overall crime. Catalano said that crime is down eight percent from Jan. 1 to Sept. 15 compared to the same time period last year, but added that HUPD...
...everyone is sold, of course. "That paramilitary-style policing has proven not just ineffective, but also has led to greater instances of brutality," contends Craig B. Futterman, a University of Chicago law professor who co-wrote the analysis of the CPD's handling of misconduct allegations. With the CPD's largely white officers saturating black and Latino neighborhoods, Futterman warns, "it's going to be like an outsider-occupied territory...
Seven months after Harvard launched a campus-wide text message alert system, the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) yesterday started two new safety alert programs of its own: The Cambridge Alert Network and Text-a-Tip. The Cambridge Alert Network will send text messages or e-mails with community safety alert to participants. Text-a-Tip works the other way around, enabling community members to send safety alerts to the CPD so that the police can warn other people through the Cambridge Alert Network. These services are both provided through Citizen Observer, an Internet company that the Boston Police Department...
...crime and conceiving strategies to battle the upswings, said the impact of technology can't be overlooked. "You can't rely on one strategy; you have to make them flexible to deal with the gangs and the drug dealing," said Limon, who is the acting deputy superintendent of the CPD's bureau of crime strategy and accountability. "But technology, for us, this has worked. Take just the cameras [which sit atop poles, are monitored constantly and focus on hotspots]. We've put in 650 since 2003. It's been paying...