MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE FLEET SECTION TAILORING BIDS TO CERTAIN VENDORS AND SUPPLIERS?

FORMER MASSACHUSETTS TROOPER WHO SPECIFIED MSP VEHICLES AND VEHICLE EQUIPMENT AN ENTIRE CAREER NOW WINES AND DINES CURRENT MASSACHUSETTS STATE TROOPERS AT TRADE SHOWS AND INDUSTRY EVENTS WITH THE SUPPLIERS HE REPRESENTS - IS THIS A CONFLICT OF INTEREST? ARE MSP VEHICLE BIDS RIGGED FOR AN OUTCOME IN MASSACHUSETTS?

1988 - Trooper recruit Timothy Shepard dies from dehydration and heatroke after rigorous training in an early autumn heat wave. Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis forms a commission to investigate training practices and protocols at police academies in the state.

1992 - State lawmakers vote to have the former Massachusetts Department of Public Safety – Division of State Police, Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles Police, Massachusetts Capitol Police, and Metropolitan District Commission Police consolidate and form into the modern-day MSP.

April 1998 - Female troopers file a lawsuit, stemming from a directive which prohibited pregnant women from “wearing uniforms, interacting with the public, working overtime, and driving police cruisers.”

Sep. 2005 - A lieutenant is transferred out of the Academy in the wake of allegations that an instructor shoved recruits' heads down a dirty toilet bowl at the New Braintree facility.

Feb. 2006 - Brian O'Hare, a State Police sergeant, is arrested in a sting operation by the FBI. O'Hare believed he was meeting a boy aged 14, who he intended to have sex with.

Aug. 2012 - MSP shut down Jamaica Plain drug lab. Years later, prosecutors in seven Massachusetts counties dropped more than 21,000 low-level drug cases tainted by the work of a rogue lab chemist who worked there, Annie Dookhan, who, over the course of several years, ingested many of the drugs she was tasked with analyzing.

June 2015 - Mass. State Police labeled as 'most secretive' government agency in America
The Investigate Reporters and Editors (IRE) organization award the MSP with the Golden Padlock, reflecting the agency’s lack of transparency with the public.

Oct. 2017 - Trooper Ryan Sceviour files a lawsuit against top brass at headquarters, claiming he was forced to delete embarassing details in an arrest report involving a Worcester County judge's daughter. In the wake of the controversy, high-ranking MSP officials resigned and a lenghty ethics investigation ensued.

May 2018 - Nearly 50 troopers were implicated in a scandal that centered around them claiming overtime hours they did not work. The controversy lead to the elimination of Troop E, which patrolled the Massachusetts Turnpike, and ultimately resulted in 10 criminal convictions and restitution to taxpayers.

Aug. 2018 - A Massachusetts State Police trooper is dishonorably discharged after the department said she did not disclose her past involvement in a drug-dealing operation before joining the force.

March 2021 - Three veteran supervisors sued Col. Christopher Mason, alleging that he distributed a predictive "study guide" to those closest to him in order to quickly promote them before a state law took effect.

Oct. 2021 - Kristopher Carr had just graduated from the Massachusetts State Police Academy when he was charged for his involvement in a fatal crash while off-duty. The passenger in Carr's car claimed that he had ingested "6-7 alcoholic beverages" prior to the accident.

March 2022-Five members of the Massachusetts State Police sued the agency, alleging it is illegally discriminating against troopers who take maternity or other types of leave.

July 2022 - The "unauthorized exercises" uncovered by the NBC10 Investigators resulted in at least 20 trainees being treated by medical staff and led to a shakeup at the Academy in New Braintree.

May 2023 - Dana Pullman, who had served as the president of the Mass State Police Troopers Union from 2012 to 2018, was convicted of accepting kickbacks from a lobbyist and also using his union debit card for personal expenses.

Nov. 2023 -The NBC10 Investigators report that 46% of men and women who signed up for the police academy dropped out, a historic low in the history of the agency.

Jan. 2024 - Four former and current Massachusetts State Police troopers are accused of taking bribes in exchange for giving passing scores on commercial driving tests. In the indictment, prosecutors alleged the scheme was referred to as the "golden handshake" in text messages.

June 2024 - Lead Mass. State Police investigator in Karen Read trial is Fired. Trooper Michael Proctor, who served as the lead investigator in the 2022 death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe, is fired following his trial board with MSP Leadership. During the trial, Proctor's crude and misogynistic texts about Read raised questions about his credibility and bias. Proctor's testimony has already created fallout in other high-profile cases.

Aug. 2024 - Sandra Birchmore death investigation by feds Matthew Farwell, a former Stoughton police detective, is accused by federal prosecutors of strangling Sandra Birchmore in her apartment and staging her death to look like a suicide. Farwell had previously been accused of grooming Birchmore when she was part of a youth program at the police department and having sex with her when she was only 15. Massachusetts State Police investigated Birchmore's death and did not pursue criminal charges, even though Farwell was the last person to see her alive and Birchmore had told the married police officer she was pregnant with his child.

Sept. 2024 - Recruit Enrique Delgado-Garcia dies in the hospital after sustaining injuries from a boxing training exercise at the State Police Academy. The Worcester District Attorney recused his office from the investigation and an independent attorney has been tapped to review the circumstances around Delgado-Garcia's death.