By Ashlee Banks ·Updated April 14, 2022
A Massachusetts city has agreed to reform its police force after the Department of Justice found that officers used excessive force.
In 2018 the DOJ launched an investigation into the Springfield Police Department and discovered officers in the Narcotics Bureau were depriving citizens of their constitutional rights and “engaged in a pattern or practice of” misconduct.
U.S. Attorney Rachel Rollins for the District of Massachusetts said, “When communities don’t
