Journalist Kenneth Lipp with the major scoop: The AT&T pay-to-play surveillance service scheme called Project Hemisphere is much bigger than original reports suggested. Lipp writes in the Daily Beast: Hemisphere is a secretive program run by AT&T that searches trillions of call...
There’s been a lot of misinformation about the FBI’s battle to force Apple to weaken its digital security. Here are the top four myths about the case, followed by the top four reasons we’ve got to support Apple. The top four myths...
West Springfield, MA, population 28,137, has two grenade launchers. Why? https://t.co/TLH5S8EZ6E — ACLU Massachusetts (@ACLU_Mass) July 6, 2014 Back in the summer of 2014, the ACLU of Massachusetts published a report about the militarization of the police. Based off of publicly available materials and...
Cops in the Commonwealth: Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Fighting the ‘war on drugs’ • A drug raid in Framingham • A drug raid in Boston • Drug raids in Fitchburg • SWAT teams in the frontline of the...
By Nancy Murray, 2016 Table of Contents I. Introduction Twenty-first century ‘homeland security’ policing took over Watertown’s streets during the hunt for those responsible for the heinous attack on the 2013 Boston Marathon. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reportedly...
Photo: Gabe Camacho The United States is not a battlefield, and our homes and communities should not be targets for military raids. But throughout Massachusetts today, forces composed of members of our public police departments increasingly resemble military units, backed up by...
Heroin related overdose deaths have quadrupled in the United States since 2002, a new report finds. In Portugal the overdose rate plummetted during about the same period.
What was the difference between these two countries during roughly the same time frame?
