massachusetts

New California Law Makes It Easier To Sue Cops Who Violate Civil Rights 4 October 2021 California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed a bill (SB 2) that will eliminate several legal immunities that shield law enforcement from civil rights lawsuits, a move that will make it easier for victims...

Massachusetts Supreme Court Tackles Law Enforcement Use Of Cell Tower Dumps 29 December 2021 Years after they've become a go-to tool for law enforcement to work their way backwards to suspects, the Massachusetts Supreme Court is wrestling with the issue of cell tower dumps. Cell tower dumps...

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...

BREAKING: Former Barnstable Police Sergeant ordered to house arrest after charged with second OUI within past year… allegedly left accident scene in Sandwich… [HN VIDEO + COURT DOCS] 8 August 2018 As you will see in the following HN Video and court documents, former Barnstable Police Sergeant...

NOTE: A second detective, Peter Ginnetty, is now on "on paid administrative leave pending an internal affairs investigation", apparently under investigation for the removal of the wrecked SUV and evidence tampering. BREAKING: Veteran Barnstable Police Detective charged with drunk driving… 20...

A man filmed a Massachusetts state trooper taking a nap in his car. Then he was retaliated against, he says. 10 December 2021 In a video posted online late last month, Nick Ford walked up to a Massachusetts state trooper’s cruiser on the side of the highway and knocked on the window. Slumped...

She Got Her Car Back 6 Years 2After Police Seized It Malinda Harris’ ordeal shows how easily the government can take innocent people’s property under civil forfeiture laws. 8 December 2021 After police in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, took her car, Malinda Harris did not get a chance to...

Judge Orders Massachusetts Prisons To Stop Using 'Highly Unreliable' Drug Field Tests To Punish Inmates Although the tests are used by prison systems and police departments across the country, a judge found they have an error rate "only marginally better than a coin-flip." 2 December 2021 A...

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...

With federal oversight in short supply, state AGs step in to probe troubled police 23 November 2021 Police in Aurora, Colo., shot 20-year-old Jamaal Bonner in the back three times with a submachine gun during a sting operation, killing him. Four years later, the department formally apologized...

Good Cop Predicts His Video Exposing Crimes in Dept Will Get Him Attacked—He Was Just Fired 21 November 2021 Those who are paying attention to the ever-expanding police state in the land of the free know that the system is set up in such a way that it protects bad cops while punishing the...

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...

Brockton school officer on leave after kneeling on student while making arrest 18 November 2021 A Brockton School Police Department officer is on leave after he knelt on a student while placing him in handcuffs at Brockton High School on Wednesday. Video of the incident circulating on social...

Cops Thought Sand From Her Stress Ball Was Cocaine. She Spent Nearly 6 Months in Jail And now an appeals court has ruled the cops who arrested her aren't entitled to qualified immunity from her lawsuit 16 November 2021 Add stress balls to the list of innocuous items that have landed innocent...

After the DEA Stole $70,000 From This Filmmaker, He Got His Money Back, Plus a $15,000 Settlement Keddins Etienne's experience shows that bullies who seize innocent people's property tend to back down when their victims put up a fight. 5 November 2021 Before a federal drug agent stole nearly...

Warrant issued after Norton officer Joshua Archer charged with DUI, leaving scene is no-show in court Archer was ultimately arraigned late Monday afternoon 15 November 2021 A default warrant was issued Monday for a Norton police officer accused of driving drunk and leaving the scene of a...

Off-duty Mass. State Police trooper faces motor vehicle homicide, OUI charges after crash that killed motorcyclist 29 October 2021 An off-duty, rookie State Police trooper who’d graduated from the academy just last week was arrested in connection with a pre-dawn crash Friday that claimed the...

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...