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Middlesex County District Attorney John J. Droney filed a petition Monday seeking the release of a nine-volume inquest report on the October death of East Cambridge youth Lawrence P. Largey...
...Largey was arrested on October 21 for allegedly breaking a wisdom and assaulting an officer while drunk. He was found dead in a jail call early the next morning after his arrest...
Observer of Largey's arrest charged that beatings Peter E. DeLuca Rudolph V. Carbone, caused Largey's death...
...report to criticizing the general practices of the Cambridge police. He finds widespread ignorance of basic operating procedures, as well as laxity in the registration of privately owned weapons and general neglect of records and reports. (Liacos even found that there was no official police record of Largey ever having been arrested.) Yet, Liacos leaves discipline in the heads of City Manager John H. Corcoran and Police Chief James Reagan--the two men ultimately responsible for the department whose procedures Liacos described as "lax" and "inadequate...
...sudden Corcoran and Reagan will correct malpractices they have left untouched for years. Liacos claims that it was not his responsibility to reform the City administration or the police department. Perhaps this is true, but basic reform is desperately needed. From what we know of Cambridge police behavior, the Largey case is not an isolated incident of "police misconduct...