Word: mattapan
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Johnson, a Boston police area commander in Roxbury and Mattapan, arrived at Harvard in December 1983. Then General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 said he hired the new chief, who did not have the experience in college police work that Chafin had, because of his reputation as a paragon of professionalism...
...change in management comes at a precipitous time for the chief and the Harvard police. Johnson, a former Boston police area commander in Roxbury and Mattapan, has come under fire from security guards and some police officers for a hands-off management style some say has led to turmoil in the guard unit and throughout the department...
...people with more command experience, higher rank, applied for the job at Harvard," says Boston Lt. Det. Richard C. Cox, who now occupies the same corner office Johnson used when the chief was the area police commander for sections of Roxbury, North Dorchester and Mattapan. "I happen to be privy to the fact that after Paul's interview at Harvard, they basically stopped looking...
Johnson was later appointed to the position of deputy superintendent and became commander of Area, B, which includes the crime-ridden neighborhoods of Roxbury and Mattapan...
While the Cambridge site is feasible, state officials said they are looking more closely at a Mattapan state hospital site and a location between South Station and Broadway in Boston...