“Each of us have worked closely with DA Rollins on pressing and
significant issues within our respective jurisdictions. She is responsive,
attentive, and diligent. Her focus is on victims and how the community is
impacted by violence and harm… We know how vitally important it is that local
and state law enforcement have a healthy partnership with federal law
enforcement officials. In Massachusetts, we already have strong working
relationships. We have no doubt that DA Rollins will continue fostering and
growing these important relationships to ensure the continued safety and
wellbeing of our Commonwealth’s residents,” said
Suffolk County Law
Enforcement Executives in their letter: Chief Brian Kyes, Chelsea Police
Department; Colonel Christopher Mason, Massachusetts State Police; Chief David
Callahan, Revere Police Department; Commissioner Gregory Long (Acting), Boston
Police Department; Chief James Guido (Retired), Revere Police Department;
Chief Kenneth Green, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police
Department; Chief Terence Delehanty, Winthrop Police Department; Commissioner
William Gross (Retired), Boston Police Department.
“Rachael Rollins was elected as District Attorney with a mandate to change
this system. As District Attorney, Rachael Rollins repeatedly demonstrated her
willingness to challenge the status quo in our justice system and to address
systemic inequities that exist. I have no doubt that she will continue to bring
this commitment to this important federal role,”
said Attorney General Maura
Healey in her letter.
“I know District Attorney Rachael Rollins well, and believe she is perfectly
positioned to serve as a benevolent change agent in federal law enforcement in
Boston, including crime prevention as well as criminal prosecutions. As an
elected District Attorney in Massachusetts’ largest county, she is well known
for her clearly enunciated policies to attack poverty, mental illness and
substance abuse disorders—the root causes of most crime—through treatment and
alternative dispositions. I have spent many hours with Rachael Rollins
discussing these issues, and from the beginning I have been impressed by her
passion for justice and, frankly, the clarity of her thinking. She will be a
great U.S. Attorney,”
said Bill Weld, former Governor of
Massachusetts and U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, in his
letter.
“Attorney Rollins has displayed the qualities of leadership, empathy,
excellence, and persistence in supporting and defending the U.S. Constitution
while ensuring equal protection and justice for all Americans. This has been
exhibited in her role as Suffolk County District Attorney,”
said Dwayne A. Crawford,
Executive Director, National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives,
in his letter.
“Rachael has all the important technical and legal knowledge and experiences
that are the foundation for those United States Attorneys, that are viewed
as most successful and are most respected…. Rachael has rightfully earned an
exceptional reputation and is known for working well with all within our
justice system, including investigators, colleagues, defense attorneys,
the Court, victims, and witnesses and the communities and neighborhoods being
served. Rachael is conscientious and always open minded in her pursuit of
fairness and justice,”
said
Michael J. Sullivan, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, in
his letter.
“Based on my personal knowledge of the duties of the position for which she
has been nominated, and further my knowledge of her accomplishments throughout
her distinguished career, I am pleased and honored to strongly recommend that
you favorably advance her name for confirmation and to ultimately confirm her
as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. I do so
without hesitation, qualification, or condition,”
said Wayne Budd, former U.S.
Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, in his letter.
“I have known Rachael for many years, as a lawyer in the Boston-area legal
community, as an appointee in our administration when I was governor, and as
District Attorney in Boston. She has earned a reputation for integrity, earnestness,
candor, determination, and hard work. She has consistently sought to make the
most of the assignments she has taken on, not for her own sake but for
the benefit of the people she serves. Notable recent examples include her
efforts to emphasize treatment over punishment in minor drug matters and to
develop a more vigorous partnership between local and federal prosecutors.
Rachael has shown herself to be a smart, effective servant leader,”
said Deval Patrick,
former Governor of Massachusetts and former U.S. Assistant Attorney General for
the Civil Rights Division, in his letter.
“DA Rollins is an extraordinary candidate who is known and respected for
her bold and unbridled voice in speaking to the legacy and taint of racism in
our criminal justice system. NAACP leaders have had the opportunity to work
alongside her and have witnessed the integrity with which she leads and carries
out her commitment, particularly as it pertains to her vision for the criminal
justice system and her initial pledge regarding the low-level, non-violent
offenses in the communities of Boston, Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop,”
said Derrick Johnson,
President and CEO of NAACP, in his letter.
“DA Rollins’ sense of empathy and compassion, combined with her
demonstrated intellect and legal aptitude, is needed at the highest levels of
federal prosecution. These qualities make DA Rollins a perfect fit for a United
States Attorney,” said
Robert
Trestan, Regional Director, Anti-Defamation League New England, in his letter.
“Throughout the past several years, we have been able to build a
relationship with her office staff through multiple initiatives that
impact the survivors that we work with every day. We have witnessed her
ability to lead and take action, and we believe that she would make
important contributions as the United States Attorney for the District of
Massachusetts,”
said Duane de Four, Interim
Executive Director, Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, in his letter.
“She supports the people she serves, holds herself and her leaders
accountable, and puts people over politics. I’ve worked side by side with
District Attorney Rollins on some of the most trying cases of my career, and I
can say without a doubt she would be an asset to any organization lucky enough
to have her,”
said
Terence M. Delehanty, Chief of Police & Interim Town Manager of Winthrop,
in his letter.
