The hotline at 774-548-1696 is live as of Monday, officials said, to report discrimination, bias, harassment, or excessive force.

A collective of Worcester advocates for prostituted women is demanding the city provide an apology and reparations for women a DOJ report says were abused by Worcester police officers.

In the wake of last week’s scathing federal report that slammed the Worcester Police Department for “outrageous government conduct”, the city announced Monday that it is establishing a new hotline for citizens to report acts of misconduct.

A suburban New York police department routinely violated residents’ civil rights, including making illegal arrests and using unnecessary strip and cavity searches, according to a new U.S. Department of Justice report.

Police in a New York jurisdiction strip-searched every person they arrested, as well as people who were not placed under arrest, according to a Department of Justice report. The illegal searches were part of a more extensive set of rights abuses and illegal activities committed by members of the Mount Vernon Police Department and