Police Accountability
The ACLU of Massachusetts seeks to create police departments that work collaboratively with all of the communities they serve through increased transparency, accountability, and fairness.
We rely on police to uphold public safety, but we also entrust police with extraordinary authority, including the powers to use deadly force and to decide who gets stopped, searched, arrested, and funneled into the criminal legal system. This great power must be balanced by accountability and transparency.
The ACLU relies on various strategies to challenge a broad range of unjust police practices – including litigation to defend the right to record police in the performance of their public duties, as well as policy advocacy to win broader measures to hold public officials accountable.
The Latest
Final settlement reached in lawsuit against Hampden County Sheriff for the death of Madelyn Linsenmeir
ACLU of Massachusetts statement on US Department of Justice report in Worcester investigation
ACLU of Massachusetts calls for urgent federal investigation into violent death of State Police recruit, allegations of abuse
Wrongful death lawsuit against Boston, four police officers can now proceed to trial
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