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police militarization

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

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
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
SETH KERSHNER

SMALL TOWN SWAT TEAM

A special investigation into the ‘militarization of Mayberry’ in Mass For a police department of only 40 officers, the April 23, 2015, raid by Ludlow Special Response Team had to be an all-hands-on-deck affair. At shortly past five o’clock in the morning, a team of 12 Ludlow officers — amounting to more than

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SETH KERSHNER November 15, 2017
BAY STATE EXAMINER

SWAT INC.

The Commonwealth’s most infamous militarized police force continues to flout records law BY MAYA SHAFFER AND ANDREW QUEMERE “There’s just a receptionist working there, and she’s afraid of them. They have a camera in her face, and they’re kind of yelling at her, and she doesn’t know what to do.” So claimed

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BAY STATE EXAMINER November 4, 2015
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