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This undated official portrait released by the Boston Police Department shows policer officer Dennis Simmonds, who died on April 10, 2014. Simmonds was among the officers at the scene in Watertown, Mass., in the early hours of April 19, 2013, when the Boston Marathon bombers were engaged in a shootout with police. His death was linked to head injuries he sustained at that time when an explosive thrown by one of the Tsarnaev brothers detonated near him. (Boston Police Department via AP)

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Boston Police Department commissioner and current fellow at Harvard University Edward Davis, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 9, 2014, before the House Homeland Security Committee hearing on the Boston Marathon Bombings leading up to the year anniversary of the attack. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Boston police Commissioner Ed Davis (at podium), accompanied by Massachusetts State Police Col. Timothy Alben (second from right) and Gov. Deval Patrick (right), speaks during a news conference after the arrest of 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect of the Boston Marathon bombings, in Watertown, Mass., on Friday, April 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Boston police officers remove an Occupy Boston protester from Dewey Square in Boston before dawn Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. More than 40 people were peacefully arrested as the park was cleared. The city had set a Thursday midnight deadline for protesters to leave or face eviction. (AP Photo/The Boston Globe, Essdras M Suarez, , Pool)

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Boston Police officers arrest protesters on Tuesday in a section of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Parkway adjacent to Dewey Square in Boston. (Boston Herald via Associated Press)

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Boston Police detectives search for evidence after a pre-dawn shooting Tuesday in which four people, including a toddler, were fatally shot and a fifth sustained life-threatening injuries. Boston has experienced a spike in violent crime this year. (Associated Press)

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A Boston police officer speaks to a neighbor, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010, near the scene of an early morning shooting in which five people including a toddler were shot in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

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A pair of Boston police officers, walk towards the crime scene perimeter Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010, following an early morning shooting in which five people including a toddler were shot in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

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Boston police speak near the scene of a shooting in Boston, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010, following an early morning shooting in which five people including a toddler were shot in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)