It was 1971, and Williams was on foot patrol ... Boston Police, not black or white police,’’ Craigwell said. Click here to enlarge. Williams, now 72 and retired after 35 years on the force ...

The Boston Police Department spent ... levels as more officers continue to leave the force than join it. “There are fewer people who want to be police officers now,” Lisa O’Brien, the ...

BOSTON — For years, Boston city leaders have vowed to diversify the police department ... more than 40% of patrol officers were Black, Hispanic or Asian. Today, the patrol force is around ...

A longtime Boston police veteran was recently promoted to the department’s second-highest position, officials said. Phillip Owens, who began as a patrol officer in Roxbury in 1993 and climbed ...