Article on Somerville's 12 cops, about 175,000 hits...

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Amazing.  I wrote a story for another newspaper on the 12 Somerville cops.  It has 150,000 Facebook hits and about 25,000 as of this afternoon on the paper's website.  73 comments 106 shares...amazing

Here's a response from me to one of the Facebook readers:

JV writes:
This is a list from the office of the Middlesex District Attorney. It is to protect the rights of citizens who may be falsely accused and shows the credibility (or lack thereof) regarding members of any police department. The evidence behind some of them is pretty bad - Bing or Google the name and see the back story. In Medford there was spousal abuse, a girlfriend getting hit, drunk driving and resisting arrest, it's all about character. It dates back to a Brady case in 1963. Instead of getting angry, please look up the city charter, the Massachusetts Constitution, the U.S.Constitution - as a reporter I'm only trying to protect your rights.


Part II
thank you for your comment. Basically the DA makes the determination on why they are on the list. You can cross reference every name and see a mayor in Medford attacking one of the police officers for forwarding a Facebook post on Islan (rather than Isis, he went after religion but didn't realize it,) and she made a big deal out of it, humiliating him. She then praises him for something else he does and...voila, same cop, someone I get along with, ends up on the list for the L'Italien report and the Cradock Bridge compensation fraud. To explain each and every event would take hundreds of hours. The reason the list needs to be published without the descriptions - in my opinion - is for citizens to know their rights if they are facing off against any of these cops in court. I'm not a lawyer, just what I am surmising. Notice how the DA phrases it without calling it a Brady's list - it's for Discovery purposes in court I believe...then again, I'm not an attorney. I only know the public's right to know is paramount since the public pays public servants their salaries