Working to reform police practices to improve respect for basic human and civil rights. Reforms must address issues in policing including racial discrimination/profiling, diversity, excessive/deadly force and corruption.
[Source via Boston Globe By Shannon Larson] A former New York City police sergeant now with the University of Massachusetts Boston police force was arrested Tuesday for his alleged role in a bribery and kickback scheme connected to a nonprofit … Continued
[Source via CBS News By Cheryl Fiandaca] The WBZ I-Team uncovered a police shooting that could have ended in tragedy. Boston Police officers opened fire through a closed apartment door, the bullets going into the wall of a five-year old’s … Continued
[Source via Boston Globe by Nick Stoico] A judge on Thursday acquitted former North Andover police officer Kelsey Fitzsimmons of pointing a gun at a fellow officer who shot her in the chest after arriving at her home to serve … Continued
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[Source via Boston Globe By Lea Skene and Sean Cotter] For the first time in more than three decades, a Boston police officer has been charged with manslaughter after fatally shooting a suspect in a carjacking last week, a swift … Continued
[Source via Boston Globe By Lea Skene] By 2022, two years after a nationwide reckoning in response to George Floyd’s murder,Boston finally seemed ready for substantive police reform. The city had a fledgling civilian oversight agency, a progressive mayor who … Continued
[Via Shot by Police] Authorities say the man killed by Boston police after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop in a stolen car last week has been identified as Stephenson King, 39, of Dorchester. The Suffolk District Attorney’s … Continued
[Source via Boston Globe By Lea Skene and Tonya Alanez] A carjacking outside a pizza restaurant led to the fatal police shooting of the stolen vehicle’s driver, a tragic series of events that unfolded and escalated quickly Wednesday night in … Continued
Sean Cullen is accused of leaving his fully loaded department-issued gun and taser unsecured in his vehicle. [Source via Boston.com By Molly Farrar] A Boston police officer is facing criminal charges after police responding to his home found his department-issued … Continued
[Source via Boston Globe by Lea Skene] Three Boston police officers testified Thursday at a meeting of the city’s civilian watchdog agency, which recently issued its first subpoenas after long complaining about a lack of cooperation from the Boston Police … Continued
[Source via Boston Globe By Lea Skene] Leaders of Boston’s civilian police oversight agency have subpoenaed several officers to appear at their meeting Thursday, an unprecedented move that could create more friction with police brass as the independent city office … Continued