State Police - Boston Globe 9-30-19

bostonglobe.com Mass. State Police is plagued with scandal. Lawmakers’ response? Crickets - The Boston Globe Shirley Leung 7-9 minutes While lawmakers have used their bully pulpits to publicly bash other officials and closely scrutinize other agencies mired in controversy, the state’s largest law enforcement agency has remained virtually unchallenged. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/09/30/scandal-after-scandal-state-police-seem-escape-broad-scrutiny-beacon-hill/HSaMiw11jS9uXIGJdpLAYN/story.html Mass. State Police is plagued with scandal. Lawmakers' response? Crickets

The Massachusetts State Police force has weathered a widespread fraud probe, was found to have discriminated in its hiring, and has faced repeated allegations of systemic corruption and coverups over the past two years. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/09/30/scandal-after-scandal-state-police-seem-escape-broad-scrutiny-beacon-hill/HSaMiw11jS9uXIGJdpLAYN/story.html Yet even as new cases of misconduct emerge, including the indictment on Sept. 18 of a trooper who allegedly fired a rifle at an unarmed ATV rider on a Boston highway, the response on Beacon Hill has been roughly the same: crickets. “I don’t get it,” said Kevin M. Burke, a former legislator, prosecutor, and state public safety chief who the State Police hired to investigate one such scandal. “I’m mystified and frankly have been for a few months now.”