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Council hears request to fund BRIC analysts aimed at firearm and retail-crime analysis

Boston City Council Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice · December 4, 2025
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Summary

The Boston Regional Intelligence Center requested $850,000 to sustain intelligence analyst positions that support firearm-violence analysis, organized retail crime work, and community CompStat meetings; the center said positions help produce annual trafficking reports and support prosecution and community engagement.

Ryan Walsh, who identified himself as director of the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, asked the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice for $850,000 in FY25 funding from the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security to sustain BRIC analyst positions.

"The BRIC's mission is to serve as the region's central point for the collection, synthesis, analysis,…

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