Cop who scammed multiple landlords is now on track to be Massachusetts' 2nd officer to be decertified under new process

This is a tough one. ACAB but landlords are leeches. I'm really torn here.

Robert A. Kennedy, a member of the Stoneham Police Department from 2001 until his resignation in February, was accused of running a recurring scam on his landlords, taking advantage of the slow eviction process in order to live rent-free in various apartments.

Federal prosecutors said Kennedy falsified his rental applications, including by providing the social security number and birth date of a relative who shared his first and last name, in order to obscure a history of delinquent payments, evictions and unpaid debts.

To date, only one officer has been fully decertified by the commission, which was created by a 2020 policing reform law to give the state more supervision of police departments and their officers.

I guess the Massachusetts decertification program is better than nothing, but not by much, if in three years they've found just one cop in the whole state who shouldn't be a cop.