262 since 7 pm last night
Hi Tom, the list is from the office of the Middlesex District Attorney.
I cannot speak for the Somerville officers nor have I looked in to any of their backgrounds.
Seeing 12 Somerville officers on the list, #4 from all the towns/cities in Middlesex County, it was newsworthy.
Some info on the development of this story: The reason I requested and obtained it was the recent story on 27 officers in Medford and the compensation fraud.
Turns out there are 30 officers on the list from Medford, one was exonerated in the compensation fraud but he was allegedly drunk driving in N. Reading, resisted arrest, slammed into a firefighter's (I assume unmarked personal car) and had to pay a $150.00 bail.
Go figure - he got on the list, I believe, for the alleged drunk driving, not the L'Italien Report which the other 27 got caught up in.
Another officer, now allegedly fired, tried to hide the evidence when a murder allegedly happened at his home when his step-son was purportedly doing a drug deal.
An allegedly innocent friend, a veteran, was shot and killed. It was the cover-up that got that particular officer on the list ...allegedly.
The list is what the D.A. has to give to attorneys on the other side of a case, and it impugns - calls into question - the credibility of individuals who took an oath to be held to the highest of standards.
If D.A. Marian Ryan put them on the list in an inappropriate way the union lawyers would have a field day. Since the union backs each officer to the max, and since they have lawyers, it is safe to say that the reason for being on the list is a matter of public safety.
Otherwise they should sue for libel and defamation.
