Police beef up Egleston Square patrols following eight shootings
By adamg - 8/20/10 - 5:33 pm
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis says he's ordered increased uniform patrols in the neighborhood and that the city has dispatched two street workers to the area following two incidents last week that left eight people shot on the same block on Washington Street.
In a letter to the Montebello Road Community Group, Davis said:
The shooting investigations regarding the incidents that occurred at 3151 Washington and 3137 Washington are extremely active and we are aggressively pursuing the individuals responsible for both incidents.
He added that since Aug. 12, police have arrested 28 people in the area around Egleston Square, on charges ranging from marijuana distribution to assault and batter with a dangerous weapon.
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The E-13 police station is about 1/2 mile from Egelston Square...they really don't need to put more police in that area just have them walk 1/2 mile to Egelston square instead of staying behind their desks....
So you think there's a
So you think there's a surplus of police, and they're inside sitting at desks? There are fewer Boston Police now than there were 60 years ago, and the move to get guys out of desk jobs and into the street was a generation ago.
The fact that someone would spray the street with gunfire blocks from a police station says rather more about the shooter than it does about the cops, don't you think?
Maybe if they'd paid attention long ago -
Maybe if they'd paid attention long ago - when it became clear that contrary to City of Boston reports that everything was SO MUCH BETTER in Egleston now - when the community asked over and over and over for help from the police - never mind a permanent E-13 Captain who was actually interested in sticking around long enough to make a difference...
THESE PEOPLE MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN HURT.
Further, if the police had done their job, rather than sit in their cars and literally watch people deal drugs and guns on the corners as I have SEEN THEM DO...
THESE PEOPLE MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN HURT.
Maybe if instead of posting cops outside the Stony Brook station for months and months after a few yuppies were mugged while texting on their way home from work they had sent those cops over to EGLESTON, where they BELONG...
THESE PEOPLE MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN HURT.
Please. The City and the police need to start paying more attention to the neighborhoods that really need it.