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What Cambridge s Public Safety Task Force hopes to accomplish
Maxwell Bevington
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At 5:30 a.m. on a recent rainy Wednesday morning, Councilor Marc McGovern’s doorbell rang. A homeless man was at his doorstep, soaked, and looking for someone to help him find a place to stay. Shelters were at capacity.
McGovern said the only thing he could do is call the police department, but the man said he did not want police involvement and left to find shelter elsewhere. If only there had been another service to call, McGovern said.
This is the sort of situation the new Public Safety Task Force is hoping to address. Appointed Jan. 7 by City Manager Louis DePasquale, the task force has 14 members not including co-chairs McGovern and Councilor E. Denise Simmons who live and work in Cambridge.
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While the Cambridge Police Department is ahead of other Massachusetts forces when it comes to new reforms made at the state level, activists see an opportunity for changes not covered in the state’s bill.
Take weapons. While there’s nothing in the bill limiting weaponry, Cambridge Police Commissioner Dr. Branville Bard has been working with one local activist, Loren Crowe, in re-examining the department s inventory.
The conversation started after CPD released a 97-page property inventory in July, which included 64 Colt M4 rifles, 11 sniper rifles and a Lenco Bearcat, an armored tactical vehicle.
When Crowe saw the list, he took to Twitter to offer his assessment. Crowe spent seven years in the Army, including two years in Afghanistan, so his breakdown of CPD s inventory, which spanned across many tweets in the same thread, provided context for the ongoing conversation of ‘how much is too much?’