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I realize this is somewhat off topic but Massachusetts State Police is notoriously corrupt. Some recent items off the top of my head which have been covered ext

I realize this is somewhat off topic but Massachusetts State Police is notoriously corrupt. Some recent items off the top of my head which have been covered extensively in mainstream media: * The overtime scandal; TLDR for years there has been a culture of falsifying overtime often in multiple excess of base salary * A recruit was beaten to death in an alleged hazing incident * Accepting bribes to pass CDL inspections * Drug labs faking results, 21k convictions overturned... years later * The Karen Read drama, which is just embarrassing regardless of who's the murderer It's honestly kind of hard to find refs for some of the specific incidents I'm thinking of, because the search results are masked by other similar incidents! Just for starters, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/epic-drug-lab-scandal-results-more-20-000-convictions-dropped-n747891 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/epic-drug-lab-scandal-r... https://www.wcvb.com/article/recent-massachusetts-state-police-scandals-overview/46588773 https://www.wcvb.com/article/recent-massachusetts-state-poli... https://www.wcvb.com/article/massachusetts-state-police-trainees-forced-to-crawl-on-hot-pavement-20-injured-report-says/40739518 https://www.wcvb.com/article/massachusetts-state-police-trai... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_State_Police#Controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_State_Police#Con...

FilosofumRex 2y ago
It's considered one of the most corrupt police forces in the country. It's former head John DiFava gets $123,764 a year pension, MIT police chief job at $300k and looking for choice rocks on the MBTA public property. No Trespass charge or theft, while his goons issue hundred of those charges every year. https://howiecarrshow.com/onetime-head-of-state-police-has-a-really-rocky-day/ https://howiecarrshow.com/onetime-head-of-state-police-has-a... Needless to say MIT police officers look up to and emulate Chief DiFava: Joseph D’Amelio had arrested a student for protesting, twice - long before Trump: https://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitai-announce/2004-August/000098.html https://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitai-announce/2004-August... but turned up to be a gangster drug dealer himself: https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/news/former-mit-police-officer-on-trial-for-drug-trafficking/20957/ https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/news/former-mit-police-... Duane Keegan had also arrested two MIT student hakers and tried to cover up for his drug dealer buddy D'Amelio. He was fired and quietly rehired and is now implicated in the witness intimidation case of the two whistleblowers mentioned below: https://thetech.com/2009/05/08/keegan-v129-n25 https://thetech.com/2009/05/08/keegan-v129-n25

FilosofumRex 2y ago

It's considered one of the most corrupt police forces in the country. It's former head John DiFava gets $123,764 a year pension, MIT police chief job at $300k and looking for choice rocks on the MBTA public property. No Trespass charge or theft, while his goons issue hundred of those charges every year. https://howiecarrshow.com/onetime-head-of-state-police-has-a-really-rocky-day/ https://howiecarrshow.com/onetime-head-of-state-police-has-a... Needless to say MIT police officers look up to and emulate Chief DiFava: Joseph D’Amelio had arrested a student for protesting, twice - long before Trump: https://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitai-announce/2004-August/000098.html https://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mitai-announce/2004-August... but turned up to be a gangster drug dealer himself: https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/news/former-mit-police-officer-on-trial-for-drug-trafficking/20957/ https://www.campussafetymagazine.com/news/former-mit-police-... Duane Keegan had also arrested two MIT student hakers and tried to cover up for his drug dealer buddy D'Amelio. He was fired and quietly rehired and is now implicated in the witness intimidation case of the two whistleblowers mentioned below: https://thetech.com/2009/05/08/keegan-v129-n25 https://thetech.com/2009/05/08/keegan-v129-n25