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Second shooting in less than a week at Bromley-Heath

By adamg on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 2:51pm

Boston Police report a teenager was shot around 12:30 a.m. on Monday at 960 Parker St.

The 19-year-old was taken to Beth Israel Hospital and is expected to survive, police say, adding officers on patrol in the area at the time reported hearing shots coming from the direction of Bickford Street.

Last Thursday, a 23-year-old man was shot at 170 Heath St.

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Comments

By Karl G. on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 3:06pm.

Right next door to Stop & Shop and only a hop, skip, and a jump form that new Whole Foods. So much for the gentrifying influence of a grocery stores! Hope that kid survives this and finds a way to escape whatever forces put him in this kind of danger.

By anon on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 3:55pm.

When is the city going to stop going through the motions of pandering to the 10 point coalition's leadership and get serious about gang violence?

By anon on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 8:16pm.

Look...violence,shooting, stabbings, muggings, revolving around Bromley Heath have been a SERIOUS problem in J.P. 40 years or more. Maybe newcomers aren't aware of this. Let me repeat what I just said: Bromley Heath Projects have TERRIFIED J.P. for over 40 years. When I was living in J.P. as a kid ALL crime emanated from The Projects. I myself was jumped MULTIPLE times by 'kids' from The Projects. I witnessed full scale riots involving 'kids' from the projects on Centre St. never reported in the news of the day. It was one of the main causes of working class white flight. The newcomers, yuppies, guppies, hipsters, students, etc. want to make J.P. safe and livable? Demand Bromley Heath be shut down and greatly limit subsidized housing.

A 1/2 century of this social experiment failure is long enough.

By anon on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 8:56pm.

lol or you can develop some street smarts

By anon on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 9:21pm.

Because a neighborhood being subjected to institutionalized gang thuggery is a laughing manner.

By anon on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 9:24pm.

I'm the poster you responded to. I was born in NYC, grew up in The Bronx, Somerville, J.P. in what could charitably be called a 'working class' family. I've lived Los Angeles, NYC, Washington DC and London UK since then. I bet I have more 'street smarts' than you, smarta**.

There's nothing remotely funny about someone being jumped, beaten up, stabbed, shot, killed, raped, robbed, left paralyzed from a bullet.

Bromley Heath is a sh*thole. It has been a complete blight on the community since the late 1060s. It has contributed greatly to J.P.s high crime rate.

By anon on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 2:15am.

So if they shut down Bromeley Heath Projects, where do the honest working people who live there go to? And where do you think the Heat Street gang folk are gonna go? They're going to spread into another neighborhood on JP or Roxbury, and we'll be seeing posts from people, like you, saying "Oh no, now the Green Street area is complete sh--hole full of shootings and stabbings," and whatnot. Has nothing to do with shutting the pj's down, and more about better policing and curbing gang violence, which isn't as easy as people want to believe it is.

By Pete Nice on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 10:00am.

My own empirical guess would estimate that 80% of people who live in the Bromley Heath projects are good, hard working people who have been dealt a hard hand in life. 10% of them are criminal cancers to society and if it weren't for public housing would be left to either die, or be killed by other human beings trying to protect themselves or their property (or the property of others). This 10% also breeds, and that also makes it worse for everyone.

The other 10% are simple lazy scammers who aren't really criminal, but don't contribue anything to society. If you sent them on a boat to some island, Boston would be a better place.

Another issue with projects in my experiences are criminal family members or girlfriends/boyfriends who end up living/staying/visiting people in the projects. These criminals also pollute the good 90% who just want to

By anon on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 10:47am.

That about sums up the issue with most housing projects in the country.

Many times the problematic people 'living' in the projects aren't on leases.

By Ron Newman on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 2:49am.

I didn't realize the Normans invaded North America too.

By anon on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 11:57am.

I'm the original poster who ACCIDENTALLY typed '1060s' rather than the correct '1960s'. It's called a TYPO.

Seriously, the response of 'just get some streets smarts' and 'LOL' in regards to high violent crime rates, people being routinely jumped, robbed, raped, stabbed, shot, was ridiculously smug and not funny.

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I have a question to the posters who say where would the 'poor' people who live in The Projects go? Why wasn't there extremely high levels of violent street crime in and around The Projects or in society in general, even in 'urban' areas, prior to the mid 1960s? Another question: Why are there MULTI-GENERATIONAL 'poor' families and people? By that I mean why is 'poverty' and in many cases ignorance being passed down generation to generation, even though we've had an extensive welfare state and social services system for the past half century? Wasn't the 'progressive' welfare state LBJ introduced supposed to limit and reduce our 'poverty' problem? It hasn't worked, even after TRILLIONS being spent, it hasn't worked in it's alleged prime objective. Or was it's real prime objective to create a huge bureaucracy for political patronage, buying votes, and back-door subsidies and cash payouts to private businesses in the form of contracts and subsidized housing, healthcare, education, food, etc.?

I'm not anti-poor, I was poor once, so I know from experience [not just from reading text books, watching movies, TV or documentaries] what it's really like. I object to the falsehood [and hypocrisy of MANY 'progressives' and allegedly conservative private business sector, in more ways than one] that our system as we've had it for the past 50 years, works. It doesn't. And housing projects were and are a bad idea. Maybe a good start would be to find where all the big $ spent on our 'war on poverty' actually goes. I think most reading know the answer to this.

The base politics needs to be taken out of the equation. This is never going to happen in a messy democratic society like the U.S. where government largess is used primarily to buy votes and pay-off various special interest groups.