Massachusetts

February 2, 2017 (Fault Lines) — It seems like a good idea in theory: an Uber-like service for women that connects female riders and drivers. Safr (previously called Chariot for Women), announced its March launch in...

January 31, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Last November, Fault Lines covered Detective Gregg Bigda’s nightmarish treatment of three teenagers who allegedly stole an undercover narcotics car for a joy ride. A new lawsuit brought by a...

January 27, 2017 (Fault Lines) – On September 15, 2016, Lowell, Massachusetts Police Officer Dave Pender suspected a 16-year-old student of possessing marijuana. Or, more accurately, the school officials where Pender was a School Resource Officer...

January 20, 2017 (Fault Lines) – The criminal justice system will always have problems. Not because it is flawed, but because the people it relies on to run are flawed. The recent wave of crime lab...

January 17, 2017 (Fault Lines) – On June 19, 2016, David Desjardins, Jr. was intoxicated at a bar in Agawam, Massachusetts, to the point that the bartender refused to serve. As is normal in these types...

January 11, 2017 (Fault Lines) — There’s something quite compelling about the idea of bringing a corrupt corporate bigwig to justice. Whether they’re trying to stick it to a CEO in the coal business who they...

December 5, 2016 (Fault Lines) — To protect and serve. That’s the motto. But who protects those who find themselves at the mercy of the very officer who was supposed to protect them? Sometimes it’s a...

November 10, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Springfield, Massachusetts narcotics detective Gregg Bigda enjoys a level of job security most of us don’t. He can threaten teenagers with charges ranging from simple possession to the Kennedy assassination....

November 3, 2016 (Fault Lines) — On October 17, 2016, Maria Daly reported she had been robbed. She told police that intruders broke into her Millbury, Massachusetts, home in the middle of the night and stole...

Sept. 16, 2016 (Fault Lines) – On Tuesday, Fault Lines contributor Josh Kendrick poked holes in Massachusetts AG Maura Healey’s attempt to hold gun manufacturers Glock and Remington “accountable,” supposedly for making defective guns. Here’s one...