Do you want to become a police officer? The deadline to apply for the 2022 Municipal Police Officer and MBTA Transit Police Officer Examination is Tuesday, January 18. As Live Boston first reported in October, […]

Do you want to become a police officer? The deadline to apply for the 2022 Municipal Police Officer and MBTA Transit Police Officer Examination is Tuesday, January 18. As Live Boston first reported in October, […]
Imagine a high school, any high school, where seven students were murdered – bludgeoned, shot, stabbed, dismembered by machetes – by their classmates. It happened in East Boston. But it was kept quiet, the victims […]
In the early morning hours of November 28, Boston police officers on random patrol came across a partially clothed 23-year-old man outside 470 Atlantic Avenue. The man was wet and shivering, wearing only a t-shirt, […]
Controversy is swirling amongst Boston Police Officers and the community as a whole, following photos posted to social media which many are calling offensive. The photos, which appear to have been taken in the Boston […]
Two Massachusetts State troopers escaped injury when their cruiser was rear-ended at the scene of a crash on I-195 in Rehoboth early Sunday morning. A driver approaching the scene of the crash didn’t stop and […]
Three state agencies continue to flout the Massachusetts public record laws as Live Boston tries to report of issues pertinent to the public safety community. Requests sent to the Massachusetts State Police, the Massachusetts Department […]
“It seems that within the Massachusetts State Police, when it comes to the phrase ‘equal pay for equal work,’ we’re missing the mark.” That’s what Trooper Patrick McNamara, the Vice President of the State Police […]
A man The Massachusetts Bail Fund helped free from jail is now charged with a much more serious crime: murder. This is the same man who is charged with attacking a corrections officer on Methadone […]
Sources tell Live Boston the Baker administration fired a Department of Correction employee who approved COVID-19 vaccination religious exemptions for correction officers, leading to some of those waivers being rescinded. The employee, who we’re not […]
Massachusetts State Police are investigating after a laser hit a Boston Medflight helicopter last month. The FAA said the crew reported a green laser illuminated their helicopter while they were flying over Weymouth on September […]
Massachusetts plans to administer the entry level police and fire Civil Service exams annually going forward. James Cowdell, the Director of Legislative Affairs for the Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and Finance, confirmed the change […]
The say time heals all wounds, but for Mary Franklin the pain is still very real as she prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of her husband’s murder. Melvin Bernard Franklin was shot and killed […]
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts threatened the City of Boston and the Boston Police Department with legal action over reported plans to clean up Methadone Mile, according to emails obtained by Live Boston […]
The Boston Caribbean Festival has become synonymous with violence, but the organizers say that’s not due to the lack of a robust presence from the Boston Police Department. A 2019 Boston Herald article linked multiple […]
Despite a promise of transparency and accountability, Acting Mayor Kim Janey has been anything but either on the status of the search for Boston’s next police commissioner after the termination of Dennis White. Janey fired […]