His conduct during the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation as a man of decisive action.

Over time, " New Wave " acquired a distinct meaning: Bands such as Blondie and Talking Heads from the CBGB scene ; The Cars, who emerged from the Rat in Boston ; The Go-Go's in Los Angeles ; and The Police in London that were broadening their instrumental palette, incorporating dance-oriented rhythms, and working with more polished production were specifically designated " New Wave " and no longer called " punk ".

Spenser was a former State trooper assigned to the Suffolk County DA's Office ( although some novels state that he also worked out of the Middlesex County DA's Office, for example in Walking Shadow and the pilot episode of Spenser: For Hire said he was a Boston Police detective ), and regularly seeks help from ( or sometimes butts heads with ) Martin Quirk ( originally a lieutenant, later a captain ) of the Boston Police Department.

Soon the Boston Police, Red Cross, Army and other Navy personnel arrived.

Following the city's launch of the so-called " CleanAir Cabs " program the previous year, in August 2008 the Boston Police Department's Hackney Carriage Unit mandated that the city's entire taxicab fleet must be converted to hybrid vehicles by 2015. web | url = http :// www. cityofboston. gov / police / hackney / drivers. asp >

In 1995, the Boston Globe reported that New York Police Commissioner William J. Bratton created a furor when he said he agreed with most of what Dershowitz had to say.

The Globe quoted Richard Bradley, president of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association: " I find it incredible that he would say that.

1975, former Police Commissioner of the Boston, New York City, and Los Angeles Police Departments

1974, former Police Chief for the city of Boston

The town is also patrolled by the Third ( Foxborough ) Barracks of Troop H ( Metro Boston ) of the Massachusetts State Police.

Another indication of a constable ’ s power is reflected in Boston Police Training Bulletin 9-85.

The public safety departments ( Police, Fire, EMS and others ) of Boston, Massachusetts use Futura Black as a typeface for their department vehicles.

East Boston is home to District A-7 of the Boston Police Department.

The local police force is Thames Valley Police, who have an office in Boston Drive from which the local constables operate.

After the fiasco of the Boston Police Strike in 1919, which was suppressed by Governor Calvin Coolidge, and the opposition of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to government labor unions, unionization remained uncommon among government employees.

; Andrew James Peters: ( 1872 – 1938 ) State Representative, Mayor of Boston during the Boston Police Strike.

* Boston Police Department

* Bob Marley as Detective Greenly, a Boston Police Department detective assigned to the gang murders.

Maskall, Bomba, Corozalito, Santana, Lucky Strike, Rockstone Pond, Boston, Crooked Tree, Biscayne, May Pen, Gardenia, Grace Bank, Sand Hill, Lord's Bank, Ladyville, Burrel Boom, Buttercup, Scotland Halfmoon, Flowers Bank, Bermudian Landing, Isabella Bank, Double Head Cabbage, Willows Bank, Saint Paul's Bank, Big Falls, Rancho Dolores, Hattieville, Freetown Sibun, Gracie Rock, La Democracia, and Gales Point are all mainland villages in the Belize District.

It opened with " Strike Up The Band " by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops, followed by 5 – 10 minutes of 25-word POW messages read by Major Cousens.

The Richmond punk scene grew, including: Inquisition, Fun Size, Knucklehed, Uphill Down, Four Walls Falling, The Social Dropouts, Ann Beretta, Sixer, River City High, BraceWar, Smoke or Fire ( originally from Boston ), Strike Anywhere, and many underground bands.

Through most of 1919 he did not join the growing chorus of anti-union sentiment and anti-Red rhetoric that greeted the Seattle General Strike and the Boston Police Strike.

They would hold the belts until October 1987 when they dropped the belts to Strike Force ( Rick Martel and Tito Santana ) when Neidhart submitted to Martel's Boston crab.

Militia tries to maintain order in Scollay Square during the 1919 Boston Police Strike.

At the war's end, following the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, American authorities saw the threat of revolution in the actions of organized labor, including such disparate cases as the Seattle General Strike and the Boston Police Strike and then in the bomb campaign directed by anarchist groups at political and business leaders.

* A City in Terror: 1919, the Boston Police Strike, Viking Press, 1975, ISBN 978-0-670-22449-4 ; reprint, Beacon Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8070-5033-0

Peters ( best recalled as the Mayor during the 1919 Boston Police Strike ) kept the sexual relationship going for years, and paid the mother and stepfather of Starr money for their silence.

A City in Terror: Calvin Coolidge and the 1919 Boston Police Strike ( Boston: Beacon Press, 1975, ISBN 978-0-8070-5033-0 ).

Organized by the National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam, led by SANE, Women Strike for Peace, the Committee for Nonviolent Action and the SDS: 20, 000 to 25, 000 in New York alone, demonstrations also in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Oklahoma City.

Additionally, the Criminal Investigations Unit has Detectives assigned to the Boston Police Department's Youth Violence Strike Force ( gang unit ) and numerous other local agencies on various investigative initiatives.

The Boston Pizza and Great Canadian Midway both are connected to the Strike!

Wedge maintains ties to the Boston area, where he is co-owner of Strike One Sports Complex in Danvers, MA featuring indoor baseball fields and batting cages.

* September 9, 1919: Boston Police Strike

The 1919 Boston Police Strike would ultimately set precedent for police unionization across the country.

A City in Terror -- 1919 --: The Boston Police Strike ( 1975 ).

In the early hours of September 11, they boarded a commuter flight back to Boston to connect to American Airlines Flight 11.

For years many sources have listed " Pilgrims " as the early Boston AL team's official nickname, but researcher Bill Nowlin has demonstrated that the name was barely used, if at all, during the team's early years.

The leading figure of the double bass in the early 20th century was Serge Koussevitzky, best known as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who popularized the double bass in modern times as a solo instrument.

Leary and Clarke both spoke about their early affiliations and influences in the Boston comedy scene in the documentary film When Standup Stood Out ( 2006 ).

Distance education dates to at least as early as 1728, when " an advertisement in the Boston Gazette ... ' Caleb Phillips, Teacher of the new method of Short Hand " was seeking students for lessons to be sent weekly.

This cartoon was most likely drawn by Elkanah Tisdale, an early 19th century painter, designer, and engraver who was living in Boston at the time.

In the game A. G. Spalding was pitcher and Ross Barnes shortstop for the Forest City nine ; these two afterwards becoming famous as star players of the Boston professional team of the early seventies.

" An article in the Boston Evening Gazette, in 1859, made reference to an early game of hockey on ice occurring in Halifax in that year.

Perhaps the best summation of his career is in the biographical entry in Robert Charles Anderson's The Great Migration Begins ( NEHGS, Boston 1995 ): " Among the many remarkable lives lived by early New Englanders, Bachiler's is the most remarkable.

Server-side scripting was first used in early 1995 by Fred DuFresne while developing the first web site for Boston, MA television station WCVB.

Bobby Valentine, ( currently the Boston Red Sox manager ) who would eventually become the Rangers ' longest-serving manager at 1, 186 games, became steward over an influx of splendid talent in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

In early September 2001, the Flight 175 group of hijackers arrived in Boston from Florida.

* The cross-step waltz ( French Valse Boston ), developed in France in the early 20th century and popular in social waltz groups today.

Other companies built early radio stations in Detroit, Boston, New York City, and other areas.

For most of the 1990s and early 2000s, driving in Boston was disrupted by the Big Dig, the most expensive ( roughly $ 14 billion ) road project in the history of the United States.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, screening of consecutive newborns for sex chromosome abnormalities was undertaken at seven centers worldwide: in Denver ( Jan 1964 – 1974 ), Edinburgh ( Apr 1967 – Jun 1979 ), New Haven ( Oct 1967 – Sep 1968 ), Toronto ( Oct 1967 – Sep 1971 ), Aarhus ( Oct 1969 – Jan 1974, Oct 1980 – Jan 1989 ), Winnipeg ( Feb 1970 – Sep 1973 ), and Boston ( Apr 1970 – Nov 1974 ).

In 2001 there were, for example, 70 operations in Belgium, about 15 in the UK and about 15 a year at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, while France had carried out operations on about 5 patients a year in the early 1980s.

Since the early 1990s, Safdie, a citizen of Canada, Israel, and the United States, has focused on his architectural practice, Safdie Architects, which is based in Boston and has branches in Toronto, Jerusalem, and Singapore.

In a 1994 Boston Globe article, Nielsen explained, " I did learn very early that when I would mention my uncle, people would look at me as if I were the biggest liar in the world.

Political action in the early 1770s culminated in the Boston Tea Party in December 1773, and led to all-out war in 1775.

Electricity came to Boston during the early part of the century, and electrical street lighting was provided from 1924.

The Haven Bridge, which now carries the two trunk roads over the river, was opened in 1966, and the new road built in the early 1970s rather separated Skirbeck from Boston ; but the town largely avoided the development boom of the 1960s.

Notable was the early New England Museum of Natural History, ( now the Museum of Science ) which opened in Boston in 1864.