Records Reveal MA Trooper Posts That Are Overtime All The Time

BOSTON, MA - JUNE 21: A sign outside the Massachusetts State Police's Emergency Response Station 10, which is located in a Charlestown industrial park in Boston, is pictured on June 21, 2018. Despite multiple investigations into an alleged overtime scandal at the Massachusetts State Police, and a pledge by leaders to correct abuses, one longstanding, pricey practice has quietly continued. Each day, state troopers are posted along highways and tunnels around Boston at seven so-called Emergency Response Stations, poised to respond to accidents, fuel spills, and other incidents. These Emergency Response posts, tucked in trailers or nondescript government buildings from Brighton to East Boston, are staffed purely on an overtime basis, nearly all of them around the clock even though the assignments have been part of the departments daily routine for decades. (Photo by Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)