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 ...

Police riot squads were an inescapable ... through the harassment and containment of black people. Boston’s Tactical Patrol Force (TPF) — the forerunner to the Special Operations unit deployed ...

A tactical police truck — with high-powered military ... who was killed. Two East Boston patrol cops were critically injured. “I heard it made a huge difference because if they weren’t ...

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 ...

BOSTON (CBS ... the 100 agents being deployed are members of an elite tactical unit which acts as the SWAT team of the Border Patrol. "This is like a SWAT team basically coming in," said ...

Rose stayed on patrol in Dorchester, where he sometimes interacted with children and victims of sexual abuse. In 2014, he was elected president of the Boston Police Patrolman’s Association.

WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — Police in a Boston suburb have arrested a man who they say entered a courthouse while wearing a gas mask and tactical gear and attacked several people with pepper spray.

A woman known as “Stacks” has been busted in a child sex trafficking sting, according to Boston Police. Shakera “Stacks” Pina, 29, of Boston, has been arrested following an investigation ...

Following a confrontation, Boston police SWAT officers ... tactics and eventually use of less lethal force was deployed by officers.” Then, police said, the person “dove out a 12th floor ...

In June 2017, the Boston Police Harbor Patrol Unit named a patrol boat in memory of Hurley, who is buried at Fairview Cemetery in Hyde Park. His name is located on the National Law Enforcement ...

Boston Public Schools officials are considering creating its own police department to handle internal complaints and disruptions. The proposal comes at a time when police reform activists have ...