For more information on policing in Massachusetts, see entry on Boston Police.
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In 2011, a senior officer from the Framingham Police Department participated in a “counterterrorism seminar” in Israel, as part of an all-expenses-paid delegation of US law enforcement to Israel sponsored by the New England chapter of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The New England Chapter of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) sponsors annual all-expenses-paid delegations to Israel for high-ranking New England police, ICE, FBI, and other security officials, where these officials meet with Israeli military, police, and intelligence agencies, with whom they train and exchange tactics including surveillance, racial profiling, crowd control, and the containment of protests.
The Framingham Police Department is listed as a full member of the Greater Boston Police Council, a "law enforcement council" (LEC) set up in the 1970s to link regional police forces and share resources for policing anti-war protests. LECs in Massachusetts have played a central role in militarizing police by organizing SWAT teams and purchasing military equipment such as Lenco Bearcats and other armored vehicles.
As of 2016, the Framingham Police Department was in the process of integrating their field interviews, arrest, complaint, accident, and citation reports, and other information into COPLINK, a surveillance and criminalization platform developed by IBM and the software company i2 which has been called "google for police officers." The Framingham Police Department is presumably now utilizing COPLINK to share this information, as well as to access information from other police departments in MA and nationwide. Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "have direct access to the Massachusetts version of the COPLINK system," enabling ICE agents to access any information Framingham Police Department officials enter into COPLINK and utilize this information to facilitate ICE's regime of tracking, detentions, and deportations.
As of 2016, the Framingham Police Department was being integrated into COPLINK, a surveillance and criminalization platform developed by IBM and the software company i2. The Framingham Police Department is presumably now integrated into COPLINK and sharing field interviews, arrest, complaint, accident, citation reports, and other information in the database. Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "have direct access to the Massachusetts version of the COPLINK system," enabling ICE to access any information Framingham Police Department officers enter into COPLINK and utilize this information to facilitate ICE's regime of tracking, detentions, and deportations.