Cambridge police would disclose the name of a police officer who shoots someone within two days of the incident as long as it wouldn't impede an investigation or threaten the officer's safety, if the department adopts a recommendation by an outside consultant.
"We actually have policy language for releasing a name of an officer that's involved in a use of fatal force in the future. It would be the first policy of its kind in Massachusetts, and that is also something that we are working on with the unions," Cambridge police commissioner Christine Elow said during a meeting of the city council's Public Safety Committee on Tuesday, April 2 (at 36:10 of the video of the meeting).
