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The officer with the Boston (MA) Police Department who was made instantly famous for his unbridled emotional response to a David Ortiz game-tying grand slam in the eighth inning of Game 2 of the American League Championship Series is scheduled to retire this month.
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Essentially, because of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. And the public has no sympathy whatsoever for your precarious position.
Read More →A drunk-driving suspect unleashed a racist tirade and threatened a Massachusetts trooper with a voodoo curse after allegedly running a newspaper delivery truck off the road on Monday.
Read More →Last April 19, Revere, Mass., Police Chief Joseph Cafarelli was leading the North Metro SWAT team as it participated in a massive manhunt. Units from federal, state, and local agencies—including North Metro SWAT—were literally going street to street and even building to building searching for the surviving Boston Marathon bomber.
Read More →Four officers with the Boston Police Department were injured as they pursued a man in a minivan over the weekend. All four officers are expected to fully recover from their injuries after being treated and released from a nearby hospital. Following the arrest, police seized six firearms from the vehicle as well as a substantial sum of cash and more than 150 rounds of ammunition.
Read More →In an editorial, the Boston Herald called the release of Cinelli "a perfect storm of incompetence, inefficiency, technical glitches and flaws in existing law."
Read More →The officer—who has not been identified—was transported to a Boston-area hospital via MedFlight helicopter out of an abundance of caution.
Read More →The state trooper and Somerville police detective apprehended Paul Gowell, 53, on Monday after a short struggle. Gowell has been charged with two other bank robberies.
Read More →Eleven Massachusetts State Police troopers and one sergeant have been terminated after not getting the COVID vaccine.
Read More →Why do the otherwise productive anti-gang programs of New York, Chicago, Baltimore, and Philadelphia not work in Los Angeles? Why do these same cities seem overwhelmed by the flood of Southern California gang members?
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