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Two stabbed on Boston Common, near where somebody was shot on Monday
By adamg on Fri, 06/14/2024 - 9:34am
A fight turned into a double stabbing near the Brewer Fountain on Boston Common around 11:45 p.m. on Thursday.
One victim was stabbed in the stomach, the other in the hand. Two other people were also taken to the hospital, one with a possible broken arm, one bleeding from the mouth.
Stanley Staco reports that the entrance to the Park Street T station at Park and Tremont was shut.
That's the same location where somebody was shot Monday night.
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jfc
What is going on in the common at night? (No, don't answer that.. was rhetorical)
I mean also where's law enforcement (park service or BPD). Two in one week.. I think its time for foot patrols of the park.
Oh wait that means cops might have to do something.
Welcome Tourists!
The Common is the start for a lot of tourists for their gawking up and down the Freedom Trail.
I know 11:30 at night isn't prime time for Bart and Faith from Akron to get going but nevertheless, walking by the Brewer during the day is like walking through the Jedi council in Phantom Menace except everyone is strung out on H. There is this circle of weird looking people mumbling about something but it isn't the chance of the return of the Sith.
We have this person called the Mayor who can't seem to get stuff done and get resources to what is essentially the face of the city to a lot of people.
Mayor Wu - Please look into this. Perhaps arrest people. I know this might mess up their chances of getting into med school but broken windows, or in this case being f'ed up on H in public, is not the best way to showcase the city.
Full disclosure - last Tuesday late afternoon - beautiful day. Whomever at the Parks Department let Harpoon set up a beer garden by Boylston Street - Nice job. That part of the Common works.
Throwing this out there.
This is my sole opinion however..
I think she's trying. Remember we have a police chief too. Its up to them to make sure their staff are doing their jobs. It doesn't always fall in the Mayor's lap. All she can do is making a phone call to the Chief.
But more so.. I am starting to think that this stuff keeps happening and there's a lack of police because of ACAB. The police are mad that the public's opinion of them is changing so they are like "fuck'em, let's not do a single thing and let crime go up.. and maybe the public will realize that.. yeah, we need cops".
I am sure I am wrong here but it sure feels like the upswing in this stuff started around the same time ACAB started a few years ago. And for the record, this is everywhere, not just Boston.
*ducks behind the tall Adam Gaffin to hide from the tomatoes from this post*
She’s trying
So she deserves a cookie, not a reelection. A for effort, F for execution.
Boy
Boy people really love to hate on her. Its like a sickness.
I bet if we knew your IP, we'd see you aren't even in MA.
I swear half of the people who don't like her don't even live in fucking massachussetts.
But because she's asian, all the racists come out of the wood work to shit on her.
Not Me
It is the Harvard attended / well off suburban raised arrogance that she and many of her supporters have for many longtime residents of the city.
This arrogance was well represented on UHub when people made fun of Annissa's accent. What kind of accent was she supposed to have, Bulgarian?
The Mayor's name could be Maureen Bridget Kathleen Murphy and her granny and my granny were friends back in Athenry growing up, but the, for lack of a better term, the looking down on areas of the city and their residents that aren't called JP, the South End, or the Back Bay is close to, especially from her supporters, hate filled.
She needs to be Mayor; Fix the streets, keep crime down, don't suspend fire fighters for complaining about sidewalks, try not to thug up Emerson Students protesting while drugs run through Mass and Cass, and try to not give into the teachers' union on closing schools.
It's been 2.5 years. She needs to get going on things or drop out.
Boston does have a
Boston does have a significant population that is well educated, Harvard or not. It sounds to me like some people just have an inferior complex. This is about roads and Boston has always had shit roads that no one maintained, definitely was the same with the last administration and I didn’t see people blaming everything on the mayor. It’s a combination of racism and sexism. The same people who are saying they are being judged by arrogant suburbites are upset that Boston is changing and needs representation that reflects that demographic change.
Speaking as an actual resident of Boston
I think critiquing her administration's action/inaction on activities on Boston Common, over 2 years into her term, is fair game, just as it was fair game to do the same to Tom Menino and Marty Walsh. Being Asian doesn't bring with it immunity from legitimate criticism, just as it didn't when the Mayor was Irish or Italian.
I like Wu as a person, and I will give her credit when it is due, but come 2025 I will not cease from asking why I still have to pay to ride the T, as a keystone of her campaign was a free MBTA.
As with all things, the buck
As with all things, the buck stops at the top
Opiate addicts
We're definitely not going to arrest our way out of a nationwide problem that was decades in the making. I don't expect that either our government or what passes for a healthcare system will put a significant dent in the problem anytime soon.
I'm currently reading Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic and recommend it to anyone who is interested in how we got to this point.
Opioid related deaths are
Opioid related deaths are going down everywhere in Mass but Boston
This is a factually incorrect statement
I'm going to assume you saw the article yesterday in the Herald that reported on a 12% increase of opioid deaths in Boston. That doesn't make what you said true.
From State House News Service via WDHD (6/12):
https://whdh.com/news/ma-opioid-overdose-deaths-declined-10-percent-in-2...
Last time I checked, Taunton and Holyoke are nowhere near Boston, so there are at least 3 distinct communities in Massachusetts that saw an increase over the past year, while the state overall saw a significant decline in these deaths.
It's been much worse in the past
The entire area around DTX out to the Common and down Lower Washington has been shady for decades, and was significantly worse back in the day, especially when things like the Downtown Arcade were still open over there. As usual, I have no idea what you are talking about as someone who has purportedly lived here for as long as you have. It wasn't great under Marty and Menino - but probably peaked in improvement in the mid/late 00s with the Ritz opening, theater being restored and opened, and all of the DNC cameras back in the day repurposed to crack down on the last vestiges of the combat zone, so give Menino some credit.
But... I guess it's all Wu's fault because.... reasons? You think she doesn't like you or something?
It was getting better
Under Walsh, it will never be perfect. However, there’s an exact point when Wu took office that you knew it was going to go back to being shady.
When that 12 yo girl went on a rampage and all Wu did walk talk in buzz words. Blaming anyone and everyone except the kid assaulting random people.
Greenway has also declined around SS significantly since her taking the corner office.
Road rage?
The Globe is reporting this is related to people responding to a road rage incident but that sounds questionable.
Still historically low by our
Still historically low by our new standards
What’s actually low
Crime or what’s being recorded. Lots of shitty behavior which wouldn’t have been acceptable in the past is now considered normal. Restorative Justice or whatever made up buzz word we’re supposed to use now.
Next time you use a phrase you don't understand ...
Maybe spend a minute or two Googling it first. Like, say, "restorative justice," which has nothing to do with crime prevention in general or statistics. In fact, the way that police departments and the feds chronicle crimes has not changed in a long time (murder is still murder, assault and battery is still assault and battery, etc.).
You keep using those words
You keep using those words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
I saw a large police presence
I saw a large police presence there yesterday afternoon.
There's something to be said
There's something to be said for establishing a crime zone.
Yeah, like ne'er-do-wells
Yeah, like ne'er-do-wells never parked their asses at Park and Tremont before we got an Asian-American mayor.