Jim Jordan

Nov 23, 2024 | commonwealthbeacon.org | Jim Jordan

LAST WEEK, Massachusetts found itself at the center of the controversy over President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to deport millions of undocumented immigrants once he takes office.  On Wednesday, Trump’s newest attack dog – and campaign finance benefactor – Elon Musk, armed with his own social media platform to stir the pot, ripped “sanctuary” cities in Massachusetts that he said were “protecting child rapists” after federal immigration authorities arrested three foreign nationals in the state.

Sep 10, 2024 | iheart.com | Congressman Jim Jordan |Jim Jordan

Speaker 1 (00:00):If you want to call, The Trevor Carey Show isfive five nine two three zero forty two forty two. That's two three zero forty two forty two, very closeto my number forty four forty four, but you knowit is. It is the Power Show, so we'll keepthat up. I'm sitting in for Trevor. He's taken a(00:21):short break. I do my show on air from noonuntil one o'clock on Saturdays, followed by The Jody Jones Show,another good show.

Aug 10, 2024 | commonwealthbeacon.org | Jim Jordan |Jim Jordan

POLICE OFFICERS have greeted every technical innovation in policing with suspicion, believing in each case that management had an ulterior motive. When Boston officers were first assigned personal two-way radios in the 1970s, patrol sergeants would distribute them at roll call and collect them at the end of each shift. They did so to prevent the radios from ending up in places where they could do less good, like Boston Harbor.

Nov 1, 2023 | commonwealthbeacon.org | Jim Jordan |Amanda Middle

CAN POLICE TURN a perceived nuisance into an opportunity? Can they benefit from the efforts of smartphone-wielding “cop watchers” who dog them at crime and emergency scenes? The answer is yes. The images and words captured from these encounters could, as part of a larger reform, help to improve police practice. Police are on camera as never before.

Oct 19, 2023 | commonwealthmagazine.org | Fred Salvucci |Jim Jordan |Gintautas Dumcius

THE MBTA says it intends to hold its contractor responsible for fixing rail ties placed too close together on the Green Line extension to Somerville and Medford, but the transit authority's general manager said the problem should have been fully uncovered and addressed as much as a year before the $2.3 billion project started carrying passengers.