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OPERATION INTIMIDATION IN THE MERRIMACK VALLEY

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted November 16, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Critical Mass, NEWS+OPINIONS

A noise complaint in Haverhill might lead to an armored truck on your doorstep

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Critical Mass, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Critical Mass, Haverhill, Maya Shaffer, militarization, militarized police, MRAP, NECN, Police, SWAT

PROBLEM EQUIPMENT: WILL LEGISLATORS STAND UP TO THE MILITARIZED POLICE STATE?

Written by ALEX MARTHEWS Posted October 15, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

It is through small decisions like this, town by town, that our police departments are slowly changing to look less like the people they serve, and more like occupying armies.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: #mapoli, Alex Marthews, Beacon Hill, Digital Fourth, Fourth Amendment, harvard, legislature, Massachusetts, militarized police, National Guard, stanford, surveillance

SWAT INC: THE COMMONWEALTH’S MOST INFAMOUS MILITARIZED POLICE FORCE CONTINUES TO FLOUT RECORDS LAW

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE AND MAYA SHAFFER Posted November 5, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

After nearly two months, seven in-person visits, numerous phone calls and emails, and a run-in with the Wilmington police, we finally received some of the records we requested.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: ACLU, Andover, andrew quemere, bay state examiner, BINJ, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Boxford, Cambridge, Carlisle, Concord, Dracut, FOIA, freedom of information, Gloucester, Haverhill, Law Enforcement Councils, lawsuit, Lowell, Massachusetts, Maya Shaffer, militarized police, Nahant, NEMLEC, New England. Lynn. Lynnfield, Newburyport, newton, North Shore, records, Rowley, Salem, Secretary of State, SOMERVILLE, Swampscott, SWAT, Tewksbury, Topsfield, Washington Post, Weston, Wilmington

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