The media is all over the latest controversy at State Police. Attorney General Andrea Campbell has appointed an outside attorney to lead an independent probe into Enrique Delgado-Garcia’s death following a boxing exercise at the State Police academy. … Then there’s this Globe editorial and a separate Joan Vennochi column on the training-exercise controversy. … It’s good to see people making the connection between historically harsh State Police training and the long-known “culture problem” in general at State Police.

Btw: I can’t get out of my mind this quote (scroll down) from a retired State Police trooper who recently defended the harsh training by academy instructors: “They were in your face yelling at you — but so are the people on the side of the road.” … People on the side of the road? Is he talking about motorists?