It’s gotten at least a little more difficult to be a corrupt cop in Massachusetts these days.
That’s the takeaway from the second failed Karen Read frame-up in Dedham. Suddenly, everyone is noticing just how corrupt the criminal justice system is here in Massachusetts.
In Massachusetts, justice isn’t blind. But it is blind drunk – that’s a big lesson from Judge Auntie Bev’s kangaroo courtroom.
And as appalling as the Mass State Police have been shown to be, they’re not the only bad actors in the LEO community.
Take the Boston PD – please. Look at their cops who’ve been in the news recently, and under what circumstances – Paul Downey, Triston Champagnie, Patrick Rose, Kelly “False Memory” Dever and of course the Mr. Big of them all, Brian Albert.
But they all got away with it, more or less, for years if not decades. Because the BPD motto is “Do the Right Thing.” Especially for all the wrong guys.
But until these bent cops began testifying under oath in the Karen Read trial, most citizens weren’t familiar with how, in the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Now everyone who watched the Read trial knows just how duplicitous these cops can be when they’re under oath. And given what they were willing to do in front of a worldwide audience of millions, can you imagine how they behave when nobody’s looking?
To give you but one example of how they “testify,” there’s now an ongoing local case where several young people were killed when cops refused to break off a chase and the teenagers’ car crashed.
At a departmental hearing, the cops were asked why they disobeyed orders to break off the pursuit. Their answer: We did break off the chase, we were just following the vehicle.
At high speed. With their blue lights on.
This sort of thing goes on all the time with cops.
A defense lawyer charges that his client’s civil rights were violated when he was improperly arrested.
I didn’t arrest him, the cop says, I merely detained him.
The lawyer says, you searched my client without a warrant.
It was not a search, the cop answers, it was a pat frisk. For security.
The lawyer continues, you rummaged through my client’s trunk without probable cause.
It was not a search, the cop smugly replies, it was an inventory.
Most of this BS occurs in deserted courtrooms, with no cameras. Until now. Karen Read dodged the lynch mob, and the viewers suddenly want more reality TV. The lawtube hosts have pivoted to other judicial horrors.
The live TV sequel to Karen Read may be Brian Walshe. The more appalling scandal in Norfolk County is the alleged cover up of the murder of Sandra Birchmore. That Canton murder was exposed by the feds after the locals brushed it off as a suicide to protect a fellow townie cop.
But Birchmore is in federal court, meaning no TV. The Walshe murder trial, on the other hand, will be tried in state court – with live TV coverage.
It will feature the same cast of bent, cartoonish state troopers who tried to railroad Read – the Rubber Ducky Detail. The evidence against Walshe for murdering his wife is overwhelming, but somehow the Rubber Ducky Detail seems to be pulling a Karen Read with the evidence.
For instance, it turns out that some of the reports about the January 2023 Walshe investigation were not written contemporaneously, but just a few weeks ago. But the Rubber Ducky Detail decided to back-date those May 2025 reports, suggesting they were generated in January 2023.
“It’s very confusing,” Lt. John Fanning ($247,000 last year) shrugged to Walshe’s defense lawyer when called out on his newly concocted report with the fake date.
To get around this, we all now know, the laws just routinely impound and seal any and all documents that might embarrass Democrats. The blogger Turtleboy is back in court Monday, trying to unseal screenshots of all kinds of embarrassing emails passed back and forth between the Rubber Ducky Patrol and their boss, Norfolk DA Michael “Meatball” Morrissey.
Think, “No nudes so far.”
In the Walshe case, a 28-page defense motion is likewise impounded because… professional courtesy.
Say what you will about Norfolk County and Boston, at least no cops have shot one another.
Unlike in North Andover.
But the State Police have become not just a statewide, but a national laughing stock. Recently, the body of a young woman turned up in Milton, just across the Mattapan line. Meatball’s office issued the usual pro forma statement, saying that anyone with information “is asked to contact State Police assigned to Morrissey’s office.”
Hilarity ensued on the message boards.
“Okay, that makes ZERO sense,” one reader responded.
“Are they going to bring Proctor out of retirement?” asked another.
“Trooper Bukhenik at a crime scene,” said another, referring to the Ukrainian chief of the Rubber Ducky Patrol, “is an awful sight.”
The State Police have their own Facebook page. With each new scandal, the comments get ruder. The Facebook page just announced the 12th annual “best looking cruiser” contest. It brought back a lot of memories – especially about state troopers driving drunk.
Here are a few responses:
“There’s a minibar installed in every vehicle.”
“Is there an Ignition Interlock Device installed?”
“Does it come equipped with a hidden compartment to hold 47 pieces of taillight?”
“How’s the trunk space? Enough room to carry evidence around for months before turning in?”
“Instead of waxing the car, how about finding the real killers?”
“You forgot the rubber ducky lineup on the dash.”
Notice the recurring themes, post-Karen Read: Driving drunk, planting evidence, losing evidence, frame-ups. Now the MSP has posted safety reminders – tips, but not in the sense of Michael Proctor soliciting a “gift” from the McAlberts after he lugged Karen Read with no evidence and even less investigation.
Here’s some citizen response to the MSP’s Independence Day tips:
“Will I get arrested if I bring a rubber ducky with me?”
“So we’re allowed to drink and drive as long as we’re with a fellow LEO in their cruisers, correct? Asking for a friend.”
“ ‘Drive Sober and Alert’ – your life and the life of the person you may have to frame depend on it.”
“ ‘Drive Sober and Alert?’ Maybe you should take your own advice.”
“If you get pulled over and are in possession of red Solo cups, just empty them out and tell the trooper you are on your way to a crime scene.”
“Don’t go to an after-party at the McAlberts.”
Happy Independence Day!
