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TAUNTON — The city may outsource 911 dispatch to a regional center in Foxboro, but it would be over the objections of Taunton’s rank-and-file cops.
City Councilors voted 6-3 on Tuesday to allow Mayor Shaunna O’Connell to keep exploring the idea. High-profile failures of the city’s dispatch system, such as during the 2016 stabbing rampage at the Silver City Galleria and elsewhere, led to changes to the city’s dispatch system based on the conclusions of a city-sponsored report by the Ryan Strategies Group….