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The state police response cost over $60,000, on top of $42,000 spent on UMass police presence. The university is now considering more stringent protest...
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"There's a line between peaceful protest and interfering or assaulting police officers," Gagne said of Etel Haxhiaj, who responded to an ICE abduction in...
Police
After pledging to prosecute illegal ICE activity in his district, David Sullivan is moving forward with assault charges brought by Worcester police against two...
Investigations
Disclosures show that from 2021 to 2024, Anthony Gulluni’s office submitted 83 wiretap applications to judges. That's almost as much as every other DA...
Police
How executive indifference, an overburdened board, and a sensationalist media are failing the promise of parole in the commonwealth.
Police
Former HPD Capt. Manuel Reyes already retired with a full pension after a junior officer accused him of sexual harassment. Now, the city appears...
Investigations
Massachusetts passed historic police certification reform. But even with the POST Commission, the public can’t see which cops have been part of the “officer...
Investigations
Mayor Ginny Desorgher appointed Todd Dodge as police chief on Tuesday. The Shoestring investigates Dodge’s past and present as a Greenfield officer.
Investigations
Trespassing arrests have recently doubled at Holyoke’s most policed apartment complexes. Unlike most, Osvaldo Soto-Berrios decided to fight his case.
Education
The fallout continues from UMass' protest encampment crackdown. Records show the police response cost at least tens of thousands of dollars.
Investigations
With police brass ignoring some recommendations last year, critics call the spending a "waste of money."
Investigations
Meet FIGG, the controversial forensic technology behind the DA's offer of free ancestry tests.
Investigations
Leyden's former police chief is now facing charges. But town residents have been working on reform for years.
Investigations
Mass. State Police's new mass surveillance tool is raising alarm bells for civil liberties advocates around the state.
Investigations
An independent report recommended terminating two officers over misconduct during an arrest. In one of her last acts as police chief, Jody Kasper disagreed.
Investigations
The revelations come a day after the City Council rejected the huge raises for the city’s top cops.