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Another Boston police scandal is quietly unfolding
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/05/metro/another-boston-police-scandal-is-quietly-unfolding/The schemes seem ludicrously brazen.
Over a period of five years, Boston police officers routinely claimed to be working, prosecutors said, when building alarms showed facilities had been long empty. Records show officers regularly claimed to have worked eight-and-a-half-hour weekend shifts for jobs that lasted less than half that. In one instance, a longtime clerk repeatedly forged the signatures of at least three different supervisors, helping her collect some $30,000 in fraudulent overtime earnings, prosecutors said.
More brazen still, the officers pursued these alleged fraud schemes at the same time State Police troopers were being very publicly hauled into court for similar offenses, sparking public outcry and calls for police reform, as well as condemnation from the governor.
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“Whenever there’s sort of a one-off scandal, [involving] one person, you can always say ‘bad apple,’ ” said Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University. “But when there’s widespread misconduct like this … it suggests a rotten tree, not a bad apple.”
Over a period of five years, Boston police officers routinely claimed to be working, prosecutors said, when building alarms showed facilities had been long empty. Records show officers regularly claimed to have worked eight-and-a-half-hour weekend shifts for jobs that lasted less than half that. In one instance, a longtime clerk repeatedly forged the signatures of at least three different supervisors, helping her collect some $30,000 in fraudulent overtime earnings, prosecutors said.
More brazen still, the officers pursued these alleged fraud schemes at the same time State Police troopers were being very publicly hauled into court for similar offenses, sparking public outcry and calls for police reform, as well as condemnation from the governor.
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“Whenever there’s sort of a one-off scandal, [involving] one person, you can always say ‘bad apple,’ ” said Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University. “But when there’s widespread misconduct like this … it suggests a rotten tree, not a bad apple.”
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