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Viewpoints

CONNECTIONS: Reimagining the role of police

We in Berkshire are fortunate to look on the recent violence from a distance. However, the suggestions to rethink accountability and reimagine policing may be useful in Berkshire as well.

by Carole Owens
Posted on June 30, 2020
Viewpoints

LEONARD QUART: Righteous protests begin to have an effect

Still, I felt that in the absence of any semblance of national leadership, there was a need for more than righteous anger from the protestors.

by Leonard Quart
Posted on June 10, 2020
Viewpoints

Alan Chartock: Our racist society

Many people think that the police are the problem but, in fact, they are just the point guards for a racist society.

by Alan Chartock
Posted on June 9, 2020
Viewpoints

CONNECTIONS: My hometown is burning

The people on TV keep saying, “We are better than this.” What does that mean? Were we better than this once?

by Carole Owens
Posted on June 9, 2020
Viewpoints

Our duty to create a more perfect union

It is vitally important for those of us who have not been affected by racial discrimination and oppression to be the allies of those who are.

by William "Smitty" Pignatelli
Posted on June 8, 2020
Letters

‘Silence’ of GB police ‘cannot go unnoticed’

In a letter to the editor, Mae Whaley writes, “As much as it is necessary for us to stay aware of the overt ways in which police departments across the country are contributing to racism, we cannot allow the constant images and videos of tear gas, rubber bullets and concussion grenades to lower our standards for how we expect our police to behave.”

by Letter to the editor
Posted on June 8, 2020
Viewpoints

Alan Chartock: I Publius

Now is a time in which police are under a microscope.

by Alan Chartock
Posted on June 6, 2020
Viewpoints

EDITORIAL: Amid Washington leadership void and search for racial justice, signs of hope

This fragile and unprecedented period in the nation’s history is made worse by an abject lack of leadership in the nation’s capital.

by Editorial Board
Posted on June 4, 2020
Viewpoints

POEM: Reflection

it’s our neck

it’s our knee

it’s our knee on our neck

by Belle Fox-Martin
Posted on May 28, 2020
News

Parking rage on Railroad Street

Three guys in a white Jeep tried to beat up a guy in a blue Subaru over a parking space in front of SoCo.

by Edge Staff
Posted on May 26, 2019
We the People

The police and the press

Obviously, beginning in 1960, the Supreme Court thought that freedom of the press was so important that, while someone might be hurt by the ruling, it was nonetheless worth it.

by Alan Chartock
Posted on January 1, 2019
News

‘The Children’s March’ at The Mahaiwe, in support of the April 20 National School Walkout

“By next Friday, every school kid in America will have experienced at least three events where they have no doubt wondered how long they must endure the tolerance for guns that has torn apart the fabric of this country and endangered their lives.”
— Documentary filmmaker Bobby Houston, on the screening of his film ‘The Children’s March’

by Edge Staff
Posted on April 14, 2018
Viewpoints

Berkshires mourn a death, wondering how it could happen

A police officer is still a man, a woman, a person; one capable of error, of fun, of love, of joy, and also susceptible to heartbreak just as Ryan Storti’s brothers at the Great Barrington Police Department are now.

by Editorial Board
Posted on May 17, 2016
News

Housatonic man charged with 11 counts of larceny, breaking and entering, in drug-related case

John L. Hobart, 32, of Main Street in Housatonic was taken into custody Tuesday, Jan. 26. Further charges are pending in Stockbridge and Sheffield.

by Edge Staff
Posted on January 27, 2016
Letters

Citizen participation is essential for local democracy

In his letter to the editor, Robert H. Jones Jr. of Stockbridge writes: “We [the voters] are reminders to local officials as to their true purpose: to follow the law and to reflect the will of their constituents.”

by Letter to the editor
Posted on January 5, 2016
Life In the Berkshires

Chelm 01262: The Cossacks are coming! The Cossacks are coming!

The police state mentality that has gripped our nation is showing itself right here at home. In Chelm 01262. The fight against terror breeds terror.

by I.M. Dybbuk
Posted on November 4, 2015
Letters

Intrusive presence of police in Stockbridge

In her letter to the editor, Georgeanne Rousseau of Stockbridge writes: “Does Stockbridge, as Chief Eaton asserts, really need increased law enforcement, and are all the lights and sirens, so intrusive to Town life, truly necessary?”

by Letter to the editor
Posted on October 23, 2015
Life In the Berkshires

Connections: Racial conflict in Great Barrington — in 1893

The police were credited with coming and breaking it up, and yet, after they arrived one black man was “used pretty roughly.” When it was over, the white community was angry that the Blacks, clearly the perpetrators in their opinion, were not arrested. The Black community was angry that a young Black man was injured with police present, and perhaps, by the police.

by Carole Owens
Posted on April 28, 2015
Life In the Berkshires

Connections: The Hawthorne Effect – does surveillance modify behavior?

In this world with crime cameras on every corner, cameras on police officers’ shoulders, and a camera phone in every hand, it would be nice to believe that filming/watching is a tool for the improvement of the human race. And yet…

 

by Carole Owens
Posted on December 30, 2014
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