Mayor Jon Mitchell said New Bedford has hired a consultant to conduct an independent evaluation of the police department.

In a news release posted Friday night to the city’s website, Mayor Jon Mitchell pushed back on the investigative report, saying it painted a picture of the department that was “materially ...

Enter the legal renegade whose mission, as he puts it, is to “undermine” the work of both originalists and progressives: Jonathan Mitchell, part cultural conservative, part demolition man.