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DAN ATKINSON

FEATURE FOLLOW-UP: SURREPTITIOUS SIMULATION

Massachusetts State Police purchased cell-phone surveillance tech that civil liberties watchdogs say invites concerning violations of constitutional protections. Is it too late for privacy advocates and lawmakers to put accountability measures in place?

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DAN ATKINSON April 3, 2024
DAN ATKINSON

STINGRAYS, SIMULATORS, SURVEILLANCE, AND SILVERADOS

How Massachusetts State Police are using the opioid crisis to pursue “profound and dangerous erosions of privacy and civil liberties”

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DAN ATKINSON February 6, 2024
BINJ ONLINE

BINJ ED DIRECTOR DISCUSSES STATE POLICE INVESTIGATION ON BLOOMBERG RADIO

In addition to appearing in DigBoston, the article has also been published by our frequent partners at the Shoestring in Western Mass, and it will also run in the upcoming issue of the Bay State Banner.

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BINJ ONLINE October 16, 2019
CHRIS FARAONE

REAL TROOPERS & BEEPER DAYS

Consultants told Mass State Police how to avoid turmoil. The department ignored the advice and spent the following two decades spiraling toward boundless corruption.

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CHRIS FARAONE October 10, 2019
CHRIS FARAONE

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.”

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CHRIS FARAONE August 21, 2019
BINJ ONLINE

MAKING FOIA WORK: THE METHODS AND DESIGN BEHIND OUR INVESTIGATION INTO GUN PROCUREMENT IN MASS

A single convenient clearinghouse for all of the material we produced—from links to features in English and Spanish, to a detailed Participatory Design Process Book

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BINJ ONLINE June 25, 2019
BINJ ONLINE

FIRE SALE FINALE: BIG BANG THEORY

Gun laws, limits, and licensing in Mass—in perception and reality

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BINJ ONLINE May 8, 2019
DANIEL KAUFMAN

LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS

For black gun advocates in purple Mass, criticism comes in red, white, and blue

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DANIEL KAUFMAN January 23, 2019
SETH KERSHNER

ATTACK OF THE PEACE POLICE

Despite cries from advocates and experts, heavily armed SWAT teams are increasingly deployed to nonviolent protests in Mass

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SETH KERSHNER June 7, 2018
SETH KERSHNER

CHILDREN AND SWAT RAIDS

The unintended consequences of militarized police in Massachusetts homes  At 5 a.m. on a hot August night in 2015, a van carrying the Worcester SWAT team pulled up outside a triple-decker on Hillside Street. The officers were wearing body armor, ballistic helmets and camouflage clothing. They came bearing shotguns, handguns

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SETH KERSHNER March 1, 2018
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