Enough is enough! What more does Gov. Maura Healey need to reform the Massachusetts State Police?

Just look at the Facebook comments on every recent MSP post. Bay State citizens are fed up with the scandals and overtime abuse, and who can blame them?

We can’t even print some of the vile comments Trooper Michael Proctor texted, according to testimony in the Karen Read trial. Just put your mind in the gutter and that’s the tenor of those texts.

Sexually disgusting comments have no place in any murder investigation. Did Trooper Proctor consider that the victim here is a Boston Police officer? A foster dad to his dead sister’s two kids?

Why didn’t one of his State Police pals text back and tell him to “Shut up!”

What’s even more disturbing, and that’s saying a lot, is Trooper Proctor is also assigned to the Brian Walshe murder case, where the Cohasset husband is accused of dismembering his wife and scattering her body parts, depriving her loved ones of a proper burial.

Did Trooper Proctor text about that murder? You know the defense attorneys in that case have already subpoenaed his cell phone records, so we will soon find out.

Is Gov. Healey going to wait and see what comes out of that case before acting?

We get it. Gallows humor is part of the business for police officers who see the worst of humanity. That’s why the ones who remember the people beneath the blood and bullets deserve our gratitude. Trooper Proctor is not one of them. He should be fired, and the next State Police colonel should come from outside the agency.

As we reported, a law enforcement watchdog group is pushing Gov. Healey to establish a Blue Ribbon Commission to fix what’s wrong with the State Police before the agency faces possible receivership by the Department of Justice.

The Healey administration says they are down to six finalists for the next leader of the State Police. Does that include outside candidates? If not, why not? We asked that question Monday and got nowhere.

To his credit, interim State Police Colonel John Mawn said in a rare statement to the Herald Sunday evening that he shares the public’s disgust but must respect “the integrity of the ongoing criminal trial and our own internal affairs investigation” and cannot comment further on Trooper Proctor.

The real question is whether Gov. Healey and lawmakers have the courage to challenge the powerful State Police union. If she’s aiming for higher office — U.S. Senate? Vice president? Cabinet member? — Gov. Healey cannot afford a no-confidence vote from the State Police. But is that the right play today? It isn’t. Courage is called for, and the State Police have lost the public’s confidence, and someone needs to win it back.

This entire issue boils down to money. Just look at the take-home pay for State Police officers. (We do, every year.) They crack the Top 10 for highest earners in Massachusetts state government. Taxpayers fork over $400,000-plus to some of these officers, and many blow past $100,000.

Massachusetts deserves better! Gov. Healey, rip up the political playbook, bring in an outside professional to run the State Police, and give taxpayers the agency they deserve.