Samantha Gross, “For some Democratic activists, Healey’s positions on criminal justice give them pause,” Boston Globe , March 20, 2022.
“When you are an attorney general, there tends to be a built-in relationship [with police] and she has definitely been too deferential to state and local police,” said Progressive Massachusetts policy director Jonathan Cohn. “There are many good things she has done as attorney general, but she has not been a leader on criminal justice issues.”