The question remains why Cambridge police waited 25 days to release this report. It still smacks of a cover up and special treatment given to an elected official. It is also another embarrassment for Beacon Hill which has been rocked by political scandals.

Damned if they do; damned if they don't. The public is not entitled to the "minutia" of daily operations of the Police Department. There was no crime. They offered service to a resident. If he were a racist, black, "world-renowned" Harvard professor this would be expected.

Newshen - This is Massachusetts, are you really suprised?

Your right, as public servants, all they did was to help out. They took him off the public streets, and put him in a position where he was no danger to the public. What happened 12 hrs. or so later is on him,and him alone. Only in this state can doing the right thing be looked at as a wrong!

Has the Registry suspended this bozo\'s license yet?

Oh, I forgot.

They are in the tank with the Legislature and all of the other hacks in Hackachussets!

thespike422, I am sorry but I totally disagree with you and anyone else who is of the opinion that the police did a great thing by taking him home. Yes you are correct they took him off the street and no what they did was not illegal. However, Had that been a regular guy with no political ties whatsoever he would have not been taken home but he would have been placed in protective custody until he was sober. What they did was ethicly wrong and should not have been done because it could be said that it set a precident that when a clearly intoxicated person is seen on the street that instead of being placed in protective custody they should be brought home. That would make the police dept. a taxi service which they are not. What they should have done was used the public intoxication law and placed him in protective custody until he was sober. They then would have had to file a report though and that is CLEARLY what they were trying to avoid givin this mans political connection.