The Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission releases police disciplinary reports data

— News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

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While the Massachusetts legislature continues to do everything it can to protect its members as well as the governor from providing transparency merely but at a level that was on average with other states, Massachusetts police departments disciplinary files were just this week made available for ready public review by the Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission (“POST”).

The long-awaited providing of these data which surely at least some surely rue happening is tied to criminal justice reform enacted in Chapter 253 of the Acts of 2020.

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For more extended — fi not also pointed — coverage of the released data, the Boston Tabloid provides a solid recap here.

The earliest disciplinary record released by POST is from December 1984 and the database is said to be current through January 31, 2023.

As should likely not come as any surprises to most anyone, the Massachusetts State Police, the Springfield Police Department and the Boston Police Department finished win, place and show.

Even so, per Quincy Quarry News’ preliminary review of the disciplinary action database, the Quarry immediately found an acid test grade shortcoming.

The shortcoming, there was no disciplinary file to be found on the now-former Quincy Police Department lieutenant who was convicted in federal court for double-dipping and then sentenced to an extended stay in a Club Fed.

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Apparently, then-Quincy Police Department Chief Paul “The Beaver” Keenan as well as a former bestie of the Dipper’s did not feel it was necessary to submit a disciplinary report on the Dipper after the feds bagged and tagged him.

This apparent omission notwithstanding, per a quick and dirty look/see, the Quarry conversely counted fifty-one disciplinary files on Quincy police officers in the POST database.

That and roughly but fifteen disciplinary files each for the arguably peer to Quincy communities of Natick and Somerville, only five for Newton, and merely one for Cambridge.

Needless to say, while Quincy Quarry has considerable respect for many Quincy police officers as well as great hopes for its new police chief, there would appear to be potential for improvement by at least some of its officers.

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