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White and the Blue Wall of Silence must both go Culture change for Boston police should be high on next mayor’s agenda. By The Editorial BoardUpdated May 18, 2021, 4:00 a.m. Email to a Friend Police Vehicles with Flashing Lights.Tomasz Zajda - stock.adobe.com Beyond sealing the fate of Boston’s hastily appointed police commissioner, an investigator’s scathing report on the case provides ample proof that the Blue Wall of Silence — silence that has protected corrupt cops, abusive cops, and at least one accused child molester — remains alive and well at Boston Police Dep...

Officer behind ‘Back the Blue’ rallies under scrutiny for social media posts, alleged attendance at insurrection Elizabeth Koh © WBZ-TV Boston police officer Joe Abasciano spoke at a rally against the Massachusetts Police Reform Bill in Burlington on Aug. 12, 2020. The Boston police officer under investigation for sending tweets attacking the former vice president and attending a January rally that led to an attempted overthrow of the government is a 13-year veteran who is perhaps best known for organizing local Back the Blue rallies across Massachusetts, according to a...

Walsh back in the spotlight after critical report on Dennis White appointment By Danny McDonald Globe Staff,Updated May 14, 2021, 40 minutes ago Email to a Friend Dennis White was sworn in by former mayor Martin J. Walsh in February.Jim Davis/Globe Staff His name barely appears in the document, but the independent report into former mayor Martin J. Walsh’s troubled appointment of the city’s police commissioner raises numerous unanswered questions about the choice made in the waning days of Walsh’s City Hall tenure and its aftermath. The new revelations from an investigation W...

Boston police say there is no way to guarantee overtime savings sought by Janey By Danny McDonald Globe Staff,Updated May 10, 2021, 6:43 p.m. Email to a Friend Boston police headquartersDavid L. Ryan/Globe Staff/file With city authorities looking to rein in Boston police overtime costs, department brass told lawmakers Monday that they could not guarantee the desired savings in next fiscal year’s budget because injuries to officers — which require overtime shifts to fill — cannot be predicted. Boston police chronically exceed their annual overtime budget. During a virtual budget...

Sean Ellis, wrongly convicted of murder in 1993, is finally fully exonerated Sarah Betancourt in Boston © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Charles Krupa/AP Sean Ellis, a Black man who featured in a Netflix documentary after spending decades in prison wrongly convicted of murdering a white police officer, has finally been fully exonerated. A Massachusetts judge and prosecutor earlier this week closed the door on his case after tossing out lingering additional convictions on gun charges. Ellis, 46, was described as “ecstatic” by his lawyer and will now consider whethe...