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Since 2000, Boston has paid $20 million to settle claims against police

By adamg on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 9:17pm

CommonWealth examines police misconduct and the gradual dismantling of a program that was meant to get cops help before they got in trouble - a program established after the Carol Stuart debacle in 1992.

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By LocalResident on Thu, 01/24/2013 - 7:10am.

These are just the payments for abusive behavior where there were enough witnesses that the police couldn't trump up charges or intimidate the victim sufficiently. This is a tiny percentage of what goes wrong in how police treat people.

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By Alex_Toth on Thu, 01/31/2013 - 11:30am.

The article lays a pretty good case for reform. Thanks for highlighting this, I haven't seen this reported elsewhere till now.

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