Massachussetts State Police Department

I had an experience with a state trooper in Dorchester and I didn’t get his name as I was to flustered to do so. I was struck by how little compassion he had. I had lost my cell iphone (put it on the top of the car to attend to something on our property; then forgot about it and ran an errand the night before). On the following Sunday morning at 6:30 am (when I knew traffic would be thinner and I would cause less of a problem) I decided I would drive out and look for it. I spotted it along the highway; then circled around the exits 6 times to determine the best way to access it. Finally, because the highway curved at that point, I decided that the best way to retrieve the phone would be to park in the emergency parking area and walk along the highway facing traffic to retrieve it. I was petrified, of course. Amazingly, a police cruiser showed up and the officer informed me I was trespassing. By this time I had retrieved the phone and was making my way back to my car. He escorted me the rest of the way, but made sure to let me know I was breaking the law. He also told me that in the future I could call the police dept. and have some one come out an help me retrieve my phone. How could I know this? My main complaint was that the officer was completely unsympathetic to my situation and treated me as if I were breaking the law. I had spent an hour circling around trying to figure out the safest way (based on the traffic pattern) for me to retrieve my phone. I’m an intelligent women who wants to keep on living! A little compassion would have gone a long way! But alas, I was just another «problem» who managed to avoid a ticket for walking along the highway! Massachusetts state police need to be better trained.

I have to I have a experience with one of your state troopers, he lied under oath, Michael A Galluccio, why are you such s bully & a lier?

Kristen look up their job description sweet cheeks, shoveling isn’t in it. I give them 5 stars for the fact they would give their lives if the situation called for it for ungrateful fools. No one likes someone who gives them a ticket so this Unilocal isn’t very helpful haha. 5 stars because they have a great uniform, the toughest academies to weed weak people out, they don’t pull you over for going 5 mph over which if you lived anywhere else you would realize we are lucky and most let you go 10+ over (I got pulled over in TX for going 5mph over and was shocked. And yes I have been ticketed both time I was pulled over by one and no they weren’t nice. But remember their job is to protect your butt not kiss it.
And Sean yes, yes Boston Police do give parking tickets I can send you a copy of mine :) BLUE are from Boston ORANGE are from meter maids. I love your wording but you need to research that.

Plenty friendly when they find you after you’ve pulled over after you’re driving down the masspike and your engine overheats or something – so long as I suppose you’re not from New Jersey. I’m not, but it seems they have a particular penchant for the garden state denizens.
But why do I really love thee, staties? Because you morph into a real cadre of assholes when on patrol at Logan Airport. To say nothing of the fact that they’re vindictive and will chase you and your car down the queue at Terminal E… I mean really, why do we have the State Police at the Airport… to give parking tickets? Really!?! Boston Police don’t give parking tickets… town cops don’t give parking tickets… they have parking department people for that. If the State Police are giving PARKING TICKETS at the Airport who’s on the lookout for the Scary Bad Guys? I mean they could at least help old ladies out of cabs at Ground Transportation instead of terrorizing people who are there doing what they’re supposed to be doing… picking up their exhausted family members returning after long flights…

Thanks again for the wriiten warning last night… When you told me you clocked me at 89 in a 55 (100 more yards and I would’ve been at the Bourne Bridge, and the speed limit would then be 40 MPH!!) I braced myself for a HEFTY fine… but nope… just a «talking to» and the warning. *SIGH* of relief!
BTW… he only let me off the hook because I had no violations in 2007, 2008, and 2009 (although I did get another written warning last week for ‘yielding’ at a stop sign, and not stopping…)
I promise to slow down, it’s my NEW New Year’s Resolution!
Thanks again! Much love!

I’d give them two stars, but I’m adding a third for the sheer amusement factor of having a statie «pull me over» for driving my golf cart too fast while setting up for the 4^th of July.
When someone hit my parked car on a city street and totaled it, they were johnny on the spot! Very nice and polite and accommodating. However, when I was t-​boned in an intersection and actually hurt they refused to show up. WTF?

Way to shovel your sidewalks in the most half-​assed fashion possible. And then, a week after the major snow fall, when you finally decide to scrape away the frozen tundra that resulted — not even finish the job. You disgust me.
Still two stars, I guess, for the whole protect and serve thing.