FRIED, J.
John Lawrence, the plaintiff, brought an action in negligence against the city of Cambridge claiming that its police department did not fulfil its promise to protect him. A Superior Court judge dismissed the plaintiff's complaint, reasoning that the promise by the city's police department was not specific enough to satisfy the exception to the public duty rule stated in G.L.c. 258, § 10 (j) (1) (1994 ed.). The plaintiff appealed. We transferred...
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