Home invasions on the increase in Brockton
Enterprise News Shea Cronin, Metropolitan College It’s a homeowner’s worst fear… View article
View ArticleWhat can Brockton’s next mayor do to improve public safety?
Brockton Enterprise Shea Cronin, Metropolitan College The last month of the preliminary mayoral campaign saw an 18 percent spike in violent crime, including three murders – two within a 14-hour window...
View ArticleEssex Sheriff’s Dept. first in Mass. to wear body cameras
WHDH Shea Cronin, Metropolitan College The video taken from the body camera of an Essex County Sheriff’s officer is raw and real… Expert quote: “The reason why body cameras have received such attention...
View ArticleShift In Cambridge Policing Stems From 2009 Arrest Of Henry Louis Gates
WGBH News Shea Cronin, Metropolitan College As Officer Mike Daniliuk heads towards the basketball court at the Frisoli Youth Center, he greets several black teens with a friendly...
View ArticleAuditors: What are Dracut police not doing if they are filling traffic-stop...
Lowell Sun Shea Cronin, Metropolitan College Among the many points of concern brought to light in the recently completed audit of the Dracut Police Department are allegations that the police...
View ArticleAP Finds Boston Police Inflate Progress on Searches, Frisks
Associated Press Shea Cronin, Metropolitan College Boston police say they’re narrowing the gap between how often black residents are subjected to stops, searches and frisks as compared with whites and...
View ArticleIn Dallas’s wake, fear among local officers
Boston Globe (subscription required) Shea Cronin, Metropolitan College Eating lunch in uniform at his favorite spot on Friday, Chelsea police Officer Sammy Mojica sat facing the door… Expert quote:...
View Article‘Reasonable suspicion’ defined: Black men who run from police can’t be...
Christian Science Monitor Shea Cronin, Metropolitan College Massachusetts’s highest court ruled that black men who flee voluntary encounters with police shouldn’t be looked at with greater suspicion...
View ArticleLittle change on race in Boston police stops
Associated Press Shea Cronin, Metropolitan College The rate at which minorities are subjected to stops, searches and frisks by police doesn’t appear to be improving in Boston in the year since the...
View ArticleDespite drop in crime, some neighborhoods still feel besieged
Boston Globe quoting Shea Cronin, Metropolitan College “In the South End, 52-year-old John Chambers is as comfortable walking through Villa Victoria, a housing project once plagued by gang violence, as...
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