BOSTON (WHDH) – The Boston Police Department is turning to the public for help in tracking down the person responsible for vandalizing several memorial monuments at Mount Hope Cemetery in Mattapan. Officers responding to the cemetery at 355 Walk Hill St. found five memorials that had been vandalized, including one which is dedicated to fallen …
Police chiefs’ organization backs BPD in Seaport fight
A statewide organization that counts both the Boston and State Police departments as members is backing BPD in the agencies’ long-standing turf war to patrol the Seaport District, arguing that the state department’s claim to sole jurisdiction is an outdated model of policing. In a letter to Governor Charlie Baker’s public safety secretary, the Massachusetts …
