According to the Boston Globe, 29-year-old Officer Mark Whalen was shot during an exchange of gunfire with a suspect—identified as 36-year-old Kasim Kahrim—in the early hours of February 22, 2019.
Read More →An officer with the Wellesley (MA) Police Department conducting a traffic stop was dragged by the suspect vehicle for about 15 feet before being able to free himself.
Read More →An officer with the Wareham (MA) Police Department responding to an overdose call was exposed to fentanyl over the weekend.
Read More →The vehicle fled the shooting scene, and was located a short time later, Gross said. Inside, officers located the shooter, a man in his mid- to late-30s, dead, Gross said. The man has been identified as Kasim Kahrim, 36, of Dorchester.
Read More →According to the Sun Chronicle, Sergeant Jeffrey Peavey—a 32-year-veteran of the force—established a dialogue with the 21-year-old man, speaking with the distraught subject for 45 minutes before convincing the man to retreat from the precipice into safety.
Read More →The Board of Trustees for the Massachusetts College of Art and Design voted against a request from its campus police department to carry firearms on campus.
Read More →The Cambridge (MA) Police Department unveiled a new recruiting campaign on Wednesday which focuses efforts on connecting the agency with residents interested in joining the department.
Read More →A Middlesex Superior Court jury Monday found Curtis W. Schondelmeyer made false and defamatory statements about Frissore when he appeared on a 2014 Fox Undercover Investigates report aired on WFXT-Channel 25 titled “Police Payback?”
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 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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