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-- 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]

Police commissioner Ed Davis has a lot to handle now that an internal audit shows drug evidence has either gone missing or has been tampered with in almost 1,000 cases.

--The BPD arrested two people in the South End for Unlawful Possession of a Firearm. The gun wouldn't have been discovered if it hadn't accidentally gone off in the bathroom. The Herald reported that the woman who was arrested was the mother of Dontel Jeffers, the child who died at the hands of his foster mother, who was recently sentenced for the crime. Laurel Sweet writes, "Crystal Claiborn [Jeffers' mother] claimed that while aiming the...

--A woman who was pregnant with twins was shot in the back last night in Mattapan. Police are saying the 22-year-old was shot through her apartment window. The woman is now in stable condition. The Herald adds that Police Commissioner Ed Davis went to the scene and that It was unclear last night whether the woman was targeted by someone she knew or whether she was a victim of a bizarre act of random violence....

--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."...

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...

--Suffolk District Attorney Dan Conley and police commissioner Ed Davis were able to be in the same room this weekend despite their ongoing public spat. But someone has BPD detectives have been distributing flyers around Government Center denouncing Conley's actions. The flyer pulls no punches and even likens Conley to a feudal lord: "Dan Conley is a politician who only wants to flex his political might over the serfs beneath him." Can everyone involved in...

--In the middle of a card game at an old folks' home in Jamaica Plain, someone let loose pepper spray, and three residents went to the hospital. That must have been a high-stakes game of pokeno! Police questioned one 66-year-old man, Robert Kane, because he had pepper spray in the past, but he denied it. One resident referred to "troublemakers" in the home and suggested that some people in the home were beefing. Aren't they...

The feud between DA Dan Conley and BPD chief Ed Davis continues, at least according to the Herald. The fact that Davis wasn't around when Conley announced on Wednesday that he would arrest Angela Vasquez, who is accused of murdering her own children, set off Michele McPhee's alarm bells. McPhee talked to Mayor Menino and councilor Stephen Murphy, who said, "This is petty politics at its worst to have the DA not communicate an arrest...

--So Commish Ed Davis reorganized the police department over the weekend, shuffling people around and, according to the Globe eliminating some of the tensions distracting the department from solving crimes. Davis said he wanted "people who would work together" in charge. But a new feud may have sprung up instead. Suffolk County DA Dan Conley said publicly that he isn't happy at all with the changes within the BPD. Conley isn't happy because Ed Davis...

Tom Menino introduced the City’s very own podcast last summer and called it Citycast. It hasn’t even had a dozen episodes yet. The weekly column published on the City’s website might not have the depth of reach that Menino is looking for. What about CityLine, the email and website magazine touting the new initiatives and successful programs in the Hub? You can find that on the website too. But Menino is tired of relying on...

Mayor Thomas Menino gave his "State of the City" address at the Strand Theater in Dorchester Tuesday night. And public safety was high on the agenda.

The Boston Globe Magazine this week featured a number of photographs that the editors had picked as some of the best of the year. Then they told the back story. But it wasn’t the photos in that feature that caught our eye. Boston's new police commissioner was featured on page six in a striking and attractive photograph for a short "First Person" interview of 9 questions. We couldn't help but think there was something...

This week in Boston has been pretty dismal; the news stories hitting the airwaves are all bad news...two local teachers being killed by their own family members, Schilling and Wells on the injured list, a gloomy, rainy forecast. The most disturbing story this week is the rise in rapes in and around the city; In the first two months of 2005, rapes are up 13% from 2004. Three rapes were reported this past weekend alone. On Friday night, a 14-year-old girl in Mission Hill reported being pulled into a beige car and raped at gunpoint before being left behind. On Saturday morning, a 40-year-old woman said she was pulled into a maroon car in Hyde Park, then raped at gunpoint in Franklin Park. And on Sunday, a woman in her 20s from West Roxbury said she was raped by a man who was driving her home from a bar.

JFKennedy that is. Kerry spoke about voter irregularities this morning at the MLK breakfast slamming the Republicans for spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in Iraq to bring democracy there but left minority voters in the US waiting in line in the cold and rain because of uneven voting machine distribution. In a release from the JFK Library in honor of Martin Luther King’s birthday Kennedy expressed his distress about the state of civil...