police reform

The death of George Floyd and widespread protests over racial injustice have prompted several states to move at a lightning pace to pass significant policing reform proposals that in some cases have languished for years, with other states on the verge of taking similar action

The police department in Aurora, Colorado, is apologizing for officers handcuffing an entire family, including a 6-year-old girl, after mistaking their vehicle as stolen.

Amid nationwide calls for police reform, Cambridge city officials are considering civilian traffic enforcement as a potential solution. Two city councilors are asking the city manager to look at transferring routine traffic enforcement from the police department to unarmed city employees in other departments, like traffic and parking, health and human services or public works. “In my opinion, the order…

City officials in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are considering civilian traffic enforcement as a potential solution amid nationwide calls for police reform

Two Cambridge city councilors are asking the city manager to look at transferring routine traffic enforcement from the police department to unarmed city employees in other departments, like traffic and parking, health and human services or public works.

Cindy Chesna, the widow of a Weymouth police sergeant killed in the line of duty in 2018, is speaking out against what she described as the “vilification” of police amid national calls for reform. In a lengthy Facebook post, the widow of Sgt. Michael Chesna called police reform legislation in Massachusetts and demands to remove “thin blue line” flags a…

And on the third day, after sessions that ran for a collective 35 hours, the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed a sweeping police reform and accountability bill that seeks to certify all law enforcement officers in the state and curb the use of force tactics by police. The bill, representing the House’s attempt at addressing calls to counter systemic racism…

The Massachusetts House of Representatives passed a sweeping police reform bill Friday night that would create a new system to license cops and enforce limits on the use of force, like chokeholds and tear gas.

Massachusetts lawmakers are debating a sweeping police reform bill Wednesday that would create a new system to license officers and enforce limits on the use of force, despite criticism from police chiefs who call such legislation “a knee-jerk reaction.” The deliberations in the House of Representatives comes after the House released their own version of a Senate police reform bill…

The Massachusetts House of Representatives has taken up the debate over police reform legislation.

The Massachusetts House of Representatives is expected to debate a police reform bill Wednesday as police chiefs criticize the move as far reaching.

House Speaker Robert DeLeo and top Democrats plan to seek a vote Wednesday on police reform legislation that makes good on the promise leaders made to Black and Latino lawmakers following the death of George Floyd, proposing a new system to license cops and enforce limits on the use of force, like chokeholds and tear gas. The bill, which was…

A dozen reverends from Black churches across Massachusetts gathered on the steps of the State House to call on lawmakers to pass police reform legislation. The Senate has done it. The House is debating its bill this week, but these religious leaders say it doesn’t go far enough.

Recent calls for police reform sparked by the death of George Floyd include a controversial demand to remove police officers from schools, but some are speaking out against it. “They should not get rid of school police,” Charlestown High School graduate Danny Munoz said. Munoz believes removing school police would be harmful for students. The 2019 graduate was mentored by…

Some are speaking out against a call to remove police from schools after the Massachusetts Senate passed a bill to make resource officers optional.

Calling the current system of public oversight broken, Boston city councilors filed an ordinance Tuesday to create an independent board to investigate police misconduct allegations. The measure, introduced by councilors Andrea Campbell, Ricardo Arroyo and Julia Mejia, would establish an 11-member panel with broad authority to investigate citizen complaints, including the power to subpoena officers and witnesses to testify. The…

Boston City Councilors filed an ordinance Tuesday that would establish a civilian oversight board for the Boston Police Department.

The Senate overcame a difficult roll-out and several false starts to pass a far-reaching reform of policing in Massachusetts on Tuesday that would ban choke-holds, limit the use of tear gas, license all law enforcement officers and train them in the history of racism. The vote in the upper chamber now shifts the focus of the debate over racism and…

A new police reform bill aims to hold police accountable and add training for all officers.

For Albert Corado, talk of reforming the current Los Angeles Police Department is pointless, implying that there is something worthwhile about an agency he has been driven to dismantle since an officer’s bullet struck and killed his younger sister during a shootout at a Trader Joe’s grocery store. He has no confidence that its officers will change the way...