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Federal Court Allows Protesters’ First Amendment Suit Against Violent Boston Cops To Continue 18 July 2022 A lawsuit filed by four protesters against three Boston police officers can move forward, following a federal judge’s determination that the cops’ counterarguments were too ridiculous to...

Cop Formerly Charged Over Murder of Freddie Gray Now in Charge of Investigating The Same Department 12 August 2022 In 2015, the world would be exposed to the horrifying practice of “nickel rides” following the death of Freddie Gray. Out of the six officers charged in Gray’s death, Lieutenant...

American Revolution Images Might Reveal You as a 'Violent Extremist,' Says the FBI Instead, the feds are telling us something very revealing about themselves. 8 August 2022 When the FBI puts out a bulletin on symbols "used by Anti-Government or Anti-Authority Violent Extremists," and it looks...

Police Repeatedly Question Mom of 6 Who Let Kids Pick Up Litter Outside "There are no known stories of any abductions here," says Anna Hershberger. 16 March 2022 Massachusetts mom of six Anna Hershberger has had the police called on her three times this past year. What has this recidivist...

Massachusetts Court Says No Expectation Of Privacy In Social Media Posts Unwittingly Shared With An Undercover Cop 22 February 2022 Can cops pretend to be real people on social media to catfish people into criminal charges? Social media services say no. Facebook in particular has stressed --...

First Circuit Tears Into Boston PD's Bullshit Gang Database While Overturning A Deportation Decision 9 February 2022 A federal court has delivered a rebuke of police gang databases in, of all things, a review of a deportation hearing. As we've been made painfully aware, gang databases are...

Police Caught Stealing Money from Innocent People To Secretly Buy Tech to Spy on Citizens’ Cellphones 8 January 2022 For decades now, federal government and their cohorts in law enforcement have been carrying out theft of the citizenry on a massive scale. We’re not talking about taxes, but an...

Boston Police Department Used Forfeiture Funds To Hide Purchase Of Surveillance Tech From City Reps 3 January 2022 Asset forfeiture is just cops going shopping for things they want. The analogy -- one prompted by statements made by Sean McMurty, the head of a county forfeiture unit in New...

City used high-tech tracking software at ‘13 Boston Calling $650,000 spent at Hub event 8 September 2014 The city of Boston spent $650,000 to test surveillance software during last year’s Boston Calling music festival, using the technology to record the crowds of concertgoers without their...

"... Boston police spent $627,000 on this equipment by dipping into money seized in connection with alleged crimes." In other words, steal from the citizens, then spend the money on "spy tech" so you can find more stuff to steal. Boston police bought spy tech with a pot of money hidden from...

Too many scoundrels to list or summarize -- read the whole article! Scandals, lawsuits leave Fall River Police Department in turmoil 22 November 2021 When Fall River police officers Michael Pessoa and William Silvia arrested Aliecer Rodriguez in March 2018, Silvia wrote a report that...

With cops like these, who needs criminals? Cops Watch Robbery Unfold in Front of Them, Do Nothing as Criminals Get in Car, Drive Away 25 November 2021 In San Francisco, as TFTP has reported, a string of flash robberies and burglaries has plagued the city for months. As we reported earlier...

Another Massachusetts State‌ ‌Trooper‌ ‌arrested‌ ‌on ‌domestic‌ ‌assault‌ ‌charges 17 November 2021 A Massachusetts State Trooper was arrested by his own agency for allegedly choking and punching his former girlfriend after a night out drinking in Boston, where he was “ordering shots” and...

ATF Goes On Tour To Teach Journalists That Cops Are Usually Right When They Kill Someone 11 November 2021 The ATF (the accepted not-actually-an-acronym for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is back on its periodic charm offensive. This time the charm seems a bit more...

Appeals Court Doesn't Seem To Like Much About A Criminal Defamation Law Police Used To Arrest A Critic 3 November 2021 Three years ago, cops in New Hampshire arrested Robert Frese for the crime of… insulting some cops. Frese, facing a suspended sentence for smashing the window of a neighbor's...

Cop Who Avoided Jail for Kidnapping, Beating Ex-Wife, Arrested 2 Months Later for Breaking Woman’s Arm 24 October 2021 As TFTP has consistently reported, police officers in the United States have an exceedingly higher rate of domestic violence than any other occupation. The average rate of...

Listen: Boston paid $1.3 million after police arrested Black man as he suffered a stroke, WBUR reports 12 October 2021 A new report found the City of Boston paid a $1.3 million settlement after police arrested a Black man and locked him up for hours as he suffered a stroke in 2019. WBUR...

Massachusetts Supreme Court Being Asked To Decide Whether Cops Can Engage In Warrantless Surveillance Of Social Media Users 23 September 2021 The top court in Massachusetts is asking itself (and legal counsel representing both sides) questions that -- on the surface level -- don't really...

Taunton cop charged with drunken driving in crash injuring Rehoboth motorcycle driver 20 September 2021 An off-duty Taunton police sergeant was allegedly driving drunk when he was involved in a crash over the weekend that left a motorcyclist from Rehoboth seriously injured, police say. Sgt...