State House News Service Reports on MassCOP Response
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Union Head: Reform Bill Punishes “Police Just For Being Police” The state’s largest law enforcement union called a compromise police reform bill that will be voted on Tuesday the “final attack” by lawmakers on Bay State police, who union leaders said are being scapegoated for violence incidents that occurred in other states. In a letter to his 4,300 members, Massachusetts Coalition of Police President Scott Hovsepian said the final policing bill that emerged from a House and Senate conference committee Monday evening was “crowded” with punitive measures for police and would add layers of unnecessary bureaucracy.
