Boston police want to keep their road detail work to protect the public -- and to protect the extra $32 million they earned last year. [Boston Herald] Ten of Boston's finest each earned more than $70k in detail work alone. [Boston Herald] Ticket prices are holding steady at Fenway Park for the first time in 14 years. (Thanks to Jason Bay's contract?) [Boston Phoenix] BC alumni are getting their panties in a bunch about......

Today the Herald wrote about Taser use in Massachusetts, citing some scary statistics. According to the Herald, taser use in Massachusetts quadrupled from 2006 to 2007, when the weapons were used 200 times. Amnesty International reports that 320 people have died after being hit with Tasers since 2001, and also says the weapons are now being used to "get compliance" rather than avoid lethal force. Our Ist friends have covered traumatic Taser incidents in the......

The City of Boston has entered a hiring freeze. Reacting to Governor Deval Patrick's announced $1 billion cut in state spending, Mayor Menino has freezed hiring and has urged a citywide spending audit. (WBZTV) Meanwhile, Boston police have thrown up a wall of platitudes against the dire budgetary news.......

Natick (but not Doug Flutie) just says no to racism. Good for Natick. [Boston Channel] Mickey D's is expanding remote ordering systems. So much for eating locally? [Consumerist/KITV] Entwistle mess gets messier, grosser. Wake us when it's over. [Globe] There's talk about opening a restaurant in Boston Common. Will it serve rat on a stick? [Beantown Bloggery] Quick, friend Dan Grabauskas on Facebook before it's too late! [Boston Daily] L.A. tries "cloud-seeding" with silver......

-- More details have emerged in the fatal shooting Saturday of a 22-year-old Roxbury man. Authorities revealed that the victim was Cheickoumar Kake, a Roxbury native who had just returned to town after living in Maryland. Kake was a resident of the Academy Homes apartment complex, where he was killed during a community cookout. Though police have been investigating a gang beef between groups based in Academy Homes and the nearby Bromley Heath housing complex,......

--Have you heard the BPD is installing massive woofers to the front of patrol cars? You may hear and feel "The Rumbler" if you're pulled over. [Boston Globe] --A Chicago meat company is recalling potentially E. coli contaminated beef products with tasty titles such as "Boneless Clods," "Flat Rounds," "Gooseneck Rounds" and "Knuckle." Some was shipped to MA in industrial amounts, so carnivores only need to cross their fingers. [Chicagoist] --The Big Dig tunnels......

Jamaica Plain commuters were greeted by a grisly sight this afternoon. A man was shot dead in the section of Southwest Corridor Park just across Boylston Street from the Stony Brook MBTA station. The shooting took place around 4:00pm, and, by 4:30pm, Boston and State police had cordoned off the park. Witnesses on the scene described the killing as a drive-by shooting. Police have not released the name of the 20 year old victim......

-- The Friday afternoon stabbing in Jamaica Plain may have been caused by pornography. Police have arrested Claribel Peralta, 21 of Boston, on charges that she stabbed her 33 year old boyfriend after flying into a rage when she discovered him watching pornography. Peralta had initially told police that she had come out of the bathroom in the victim's Amory Street apartment to find him pre-stabbed. [BPDNews; Herald] -- Two men were shot in a......

-- While many Bostonians remain only vaguely aware of the Bruins' playoff loss last night, at least three fans mustered enough anguish to make it to jail, police say. Last night, a celebrating Canadiens' fan found himself bleeding from the head outside the TDBanknorth Garden after allegedly being assaulted by a two-man goon squad. Police arrested the pair, one of whom was wearing a Jason Allison Bruins jersey. And, inside the Garden, a detail cop......

--Another fireman behaving badly; after hitting a woman, he fought with the arresting officers. [Boston Herald] --With only lottery tickets and the tracks to keep them occupied, MA residents were forced to spend more than $1 billion in Connecticut and Rhode Island casinos last year. [Boston Globe] --Researchers say the "Flutie Effect" is real (and it has nothing to do with mullets). [WCVB] --A State Representative from Boston wants no more "height-ism" and "weight-ism"......

-- The Bridgewater man being sought by police for the murder of his ex-wife was found dead last night, an apparent suicide. Andrew Boisvert was found hanging in an Iredell County, North Carolina rest stop. He was fleeing Friday's warrant for his arrest in the murder of Medford resident Margaret Ninos, who was found beaten to death in her home on Wednesday. A North Carolina rest stop worker discovered Boisvert's body hanging from a tree.......

--A security guard and two other individuals chased down a robber who had stolen from a 66-year-old woman yesterday as she exited a Dorchester convenience store. BPD officers responding to the crime were directed to the suspect by the pack of Good Samaritans. [BPD News] --A man was killed last night outside a White Hen Pantry in Lynn; he was shot twice in the chest. Very few details are yet available. [Boston Globe] --Police......

After freezing our buns off outside Casa Lampoon, while 'Pooners were slinging T-shirts and crackers at the crowd, only to be told that Paris Hilton was late, we're glad that we weren't the only ones who missed out on seeing the Queen of Wine in a Can.* The BPD denied a group of rowdy fans the opportunity to see Ms. Hilton early this morning on Warrenton Street: As officers were attempting to move traffic and......

Update: Gintautas Dumcius at the Dorchester Reporter was also early to the Yakovleff story and covers the reaction in the Tuttle Street neighborhood where Yakovleff died. While police have asked for assistance in finding the killer of Daniel Yakovleff, the city's gay community is understandably concerned, the Globe reports. Yakovleff, who was a stylist at Liquid Hair, was out and may have been targeted for his sexual orientation. The incident has galvanized gay activists, who......

A Woburn man was arrested and went to court today for allegedly raping an unconscious woman in a bathroom at Felt late Friday night. 21-year-old Nicholas Chiaraluce pled not guilty to a count of aggravated rape. The details of the case, provided by the DA's Office, are beyond disturbing: Club employees told responding Boston Police that a patron had seen Chiaraluce having sex with an unconscious woman when he went to use the establishment’s second-floor......

-- A man was shot to death waiting for his food at a Jamaican restaurant in Dorchester last night. Police have not identified the 24 year-old victim, the eighth Boston homicide and the fourth in three nights. His death punctuates an spree of violence in Dorchester unprecedented in recent memory. [Boston Herald] -- The Dorchester killing prompted a swift reaction from Boston Police. A massive warrant sweep netted 67 alleged criminals, several firearms and a......

--The Boston Police Department and the DA's Office are investigating the death of an inmate at the Suffolk County House of Correction. 41-year-old Darryl Lee Leslie died on New Year's Eve while being moved to maximum security because he was, according to a jail spokesman, "planning a violent attack." An autopsy is being performed. [Boston Globe] --A 15-year-old who was shot in the stomach at a New Year's Eve party in New Bedford has since......

--An officer with the Boston Police Department was caught abusing his girlfriend in Baltimore, and now the BPD says it can't fire him. According to O'Ryan Johnson, Batlimore gave the officer, Lt. David Murphy, "probation before judgment," so he got 18 months probation. Commish Ed Davis says that since Murphy wasn't convicted, Murphy can't be punished. --As of this time, the BPD believes that the two fatal shootings in Dorchester and Roxbury on Friday were......

-- 18 protesters were arrested during yesterday's Veterans Day ceremony at City Hall Plaza. They were members of Veterans for Peace, an organization of former soldiers opposed to the Iraq War. The American Legion had placed the group in the rear of the Veterans Day parade and told them that they could not carry signs protesting the war. The Veterans for Peace responded by blocking the official ceremony podium with gags in their mouths and......

--Police Commissioner Edward Davis has reacted to the information that corruption in the Boston Police Department might have extended beyond former officer Roberto Pulido and his sketchy crew. He even put a video on YouTube declaring that he will investigate the allegations. He said, "I will continue to press for the strictest sanctions against police corruption so that the excellent police work that I see every day from our officers will not be tarnished."......

--Well, that didn't take long. The BPD announced that it arrested 18 people during today's Red Sox Rolling Rally. All the arrests were for disorderly. For the record, Bostonist saw absolutely no disorderly along Boylston, unless people refused to climb down from trees and the tops of the public toilets. --The Red Sox fans who were arrested after celebrating Game 4 against Cleveland were arraigned yesterday. Some admitted to bad behavior, while others, according......

We did our best to spread the word on Sunday that Boston Police would be cracking down on debauchery outside Fenway Park during Game 7 of the ALCS, but let's face it: we're naturally curious. We wanted to see with our own eyes what the scene was like down by the ballpark, given the likelihood of stories running wild about who was going to take it too far: the crowd or the police. Police had......

Bostonist presents a public service announcement … Mayor Tom Menino and Police Commissioner Ed Davis held a press conference today to let the city know that the party police would be out in force for Game 7 in the ALCS. Whether the Red Sox win or lose (and they're gonna win, right?), the BPD will be ready. But, if you didn't get a ticket and you're planning on swarming upon Fenway Park, The Boston Police......

--Did carrying around a bunch of mail-order catalogs and dodging dogs all day make an East Boston postal worker snap? Noelle Lacorte, 26, of Revere, was driving her mail truck yesterday morning when she almost ran over a police officer working a detail. The police took offense, and she took off. Here's what happened next, according to the Herald: “The officer observed the operator on her cell phone with a cigarette in one hand and......

--Sure, people like to collect knickknacks. Salt-and-pepper shakers, Beanie Babies, comic books, parking meters. Yeah, parking meters, 123 of 'em, in fact. Thomas Gannon of Cambridge had cut the meters off poles all over Cambridge and Somerville. Police stumbled upon them when visiting Gannon for other reasons on Monday night. Master of understatement and Cambridge PD spokesman Frank Pasquarello said, "This does seem to be odd." Indeed. --Police arrested 17-year-old Derek Lodie, of Revere, for......

--Word is out that some boneheaded morons knocked over a 160-year-old bust of Jesus that is displayed at the Boston Public Library. It happened on September 12 in the afternoon, and the man and woman who did it got caught on videotape. The pair didn't go after the bust of Lucifer. Apparently they were trying to make a point, but it was obscured in the sheer amount of dumbassery displayed by their behavior. It still......

Come on now. It's been six months since the BPD chased down some LED signs depicting the Mooninites and still we're subject to ridicule. A tipster on the Bostonist Contribute page alerted us to the Jalopink posting that there is an eerily similar rust spot to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force character of Meatwad appearing on a 1973 Datsun 610. As the intro lyrics go: "Meatwad make the money, see. Meatwad get the honeys,......

Rumors are flying today about the possible death of Mr. Butch (Harold Madison, Jr.), the former "King of Kenmore Square" exiled to Allston in the mid-1990s. According to the unconfirmed stories reported on message boards today, the homeless man/local musicians/unofficial face of Boston was riding on a scooter this morning when he was involved in a collision with a car. His Wikipedia and MySpace have already been updated to announce the news. Bostonist contacted Boston......

Rees Shad and Rebecca Stern have created a lamp that will help Boston Police breathe easy – well, if they understand the language. The lamps they've created run a 20 minute cycle of declaratives that "This is not a bomb" in twelve languages at dusk, power down, and ready themselves for the next night's performance. From Rees Shad's narration on the video and statement posted on their website: " My first thought upon hearing about......

-- Boston Police's news blotter doesn't include the words "Bonbon Bandit" or "Sweet Tooth Robber" in the public safety notification it posted yesterday, but those who have been following the string of robberies at sweet shoppes (and a Yankee Candle) can add another crime to the list. The man seen on many a security camera as of late reportedly held up City Convenience on Albany Street at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday, brandishing a knife and......