AG Archives

STRIKE & FRISK

AG Investigating BPD To Determine If “Gang Unit” Engages In “Unconstitutional Policing” The “review is focused on racial disparities in the rates at which people are stopped and frisked” There has been significant state-level scrutiny of Massachusetts municipal law enforcement in the past year, with the appointed Peace Officer Standards

CHRIS FARAONE May 15, 2023

AG HEALEY’S OFFICE BLOCKS ACCOUNTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA, SHIELDS BAD ACTORS ACROSS STATE

Now records we have received from Healey’s shed light on why her office may be avoiding the issue—her office is also guilty of the same kind of questionable social media management.

MAYA SHAFFER February 26, 2020

THERE’S MUCH MORE TO THE MASS STATE POLICE SCANDAL THAN IS BEING REPORTED

“Pullman, Lynch and others were also allegedly involved in a scheme to defraud two different companies that sought to do business with the Commonwealth.”

CHRIS FARAONE August 21, 2019

CASE OPEN (A FIRE SALE FOLLOW-UP)

Connecticut high court ruling opens up Mass gun seller to Newtown lawsuit

CURTIS WALTMAN March 26, 2019

ARC OF THE MORAL UNIVERSE

Mass State Police and local law enforcement have spent millions amassing an arsenal of Tasers, but there’s minimal accountability for those doing the purchasing, or for those doing the tasing

BINJ ONLINE February 27, 2019

ASSIST OUR INVESTIGATION INTO GUN SALES IN MASS

Thanks to MuckRock, we are excited to announce that you—readers, community members, reporters, anyone—can dig through all these documents along with us by simply clicking onto this portal.

CHRIS FARAONE January 12, 2019

FIRE SALE PT. 1 1/2

More about how police solicitation of guns and other combat gear is done solely by departments that weigh options and decide on agreements, without any scrutiny from other agencies.

CHRIS FARAONE November 22, 2018

FIRE SALE PT. 1

Even for weapons dealers who have flouted state laws, there is major money to be made by selling munitions to police in Massachusetts

CHRIS FARAONE September 27, 2018

EVERSOURCE SCREWS MASS CONSUMERS

With a little help from its friends, the “regulators” at the Department of Public Utilities December 5, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS It is perhaps understandable that one of the most important Massachusetts news stories of the year was buried in the avalanche of reports coming out

JASON PRAMAS December 5, 2017