Tom Nolan is an associate professor of criminology and the director of graduate programs in criminology at Merrimack College. Nolan is a 27-year veteran and former lieutenant of the Boston Police Department.

HIT THE ROAD

After years of training to ticket and harass the citizens they were supposed to protect and serve, it’s going to take more than a new boss to fix the department.

TOO CLOSE

Robert McCulloch could’ve indicted Michael Brown’s killer himself. Instead, he barely pushed the jurors to charge the cop and allowed the unprecedented step of letting the officer testify.