Posts Tagged ‘WPD’
Killing the Flock corpse
Voters at next week’s Town Meeting have a choice. They can decide to take up and debate Article 18, or they can take no action by voting to indefinitely postpone it. Either way, the result will be exactly the same: The Wakefield Police Department‘s Flock cameras will be gone. Article 18 that would have forced […]
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Flock, we hardly knew ye
Wakefield is less safe today than it was a week ago. This week, the Wakefield Police Department reluctantly decided to pull the plug on their use of Flock Safety cameras as a tool to solve crimes and keep the community safe. Not because the cameras aren’t effective. They are. And not because the Flock cameras […]
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Reasons to be cheerful
If you approached the 2020 Annual Town Meeting with a touch of trepidation, you certainly weren’t alone. There were several articles on the warrant that had the potential to make Wakefield a less safe and more restrictive community.
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While Wakefield Police Officer Michael Pietrantonio was deployed last year with the United States Air Force in Iraq, he was very appreciative of the local support he received and the efforts made by the Wakefield Police Department and his fellow WPD officers to stay in touch while he was away serving in the 332nd Expeditionary […]
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