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Police get first-hand taste of what North End residents are complaining about
By adamg on Fri, 08/03/2012 - 9:16am
NorthEndWaterfront.com reports:
It was a surreal scene at the Nazzaro Center on Thursday night when a drugged out young man, accompanied by his somewhat less impaired girlfriend, was shooting up in Polcari Playground before passing out inside the youth center. A large group of residents showed up at 6:30 pm for the monthly North End Public Safety meeting to see the Oakdale resident literally bouncing off the walls and having trouble walking before passing out in front of the entrance desk.
Residents said they'd called 911, but nobody came. A sergeant who'd arrived for the monthly meeting called for an ambulance.
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911 and no one came?
Not surprising. Neither is a drugged up couple in a youth center. I've also seen lots of drug use at playgrounds in Chinatown. Call the cops? Not even worth it. Who cares if someone's kid is getting second hand crack smoke, week smoke, or sees someone shooting up?
Not even Boston residents
Oakdale is way out in the suburbs. He really had no right to be there in the first place, since he's not a city resident.
I once saw a guy drugged out and jumping/rolling around on a Red Line train around noon one day.
Oakdale where?
Oakdale? Oakdale-Dedham?
When in doubt, blame Dedham
I asked Matt, who wrote the article, and he says the BPD report only says "Oakdale." Are there other Oakdales around here beside the one in Dedham?
Like being from Springfield
Oakdale, California
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From little acorns ...
I'm going to assume (yeah, a dangerous thing) we can safely eliminate all the non-Mass. Oakdales, leaving us with just two possibilities, and I'm kind of doubting West Wherethehellisit, um, Boylston.
Sorry, police in this city are a joke
Traffic enforcement outside of a few 'trouble' areas in Dorchester, Roxbury, is non-existent. It's very rare to see any police presence in the Back Bay or Beacon Hill UNLESS they're on a paid detail, and even then they give off the attitude they'd bite your head off if you asked them something or requested assistance. That people call 911, basically downtown no less, and got no assistance, is ridiculous. God knows people here pay enough to the city in taxes, but get cr*p city services in return.
This applies to the MBTA,too. They obviously have almost no ability to adequately police a big transit system that carries over 1 million people per day.
If America is turning into a police state as some people claim, it certainly doesn't apply to Boston. I think you have to slaughter somebody with a chainsaw on a main street at 12 noon to attract police attention in this city. It's completely the opposite in NYC. They're b*ll busters over everything by comparison.
I have no other big city police force to compare this too...
...but I've lived in Boston for close to 25 years and I used to work in several retail establishments in the Downtown Crossing area when I moved here. One time we had a guy steal something and was confronted by a manager, the guy assaulted the manager (not horrifically but assault nonetheless) and we detained him (he was pretty drunk). We called the cops three times over an hour and a half stating there was an assault. There were officers a block and a half away and not one showed up. An employee walked to the officers at the corner and were told to call it in, they can't leave their post. We finally just told the guy to get out. I have four cousins who are retired officers and after experiencing the attitude of Boston police I started listening more closely to my cousin's stories of their jobs (before they retired) and I realized how much they hated people. Maybe that's why some people want to be cops, so they can have authority over those they hate. But then the other day I had a rather pleasant experience with a female meter reader and I was expecting the worst so....
See, that's the thing
Meter readers work for BTD (Boston Transportation Department) not BPD.
What was her name?
Rita?
Fireman respond well
Passed out men are a bit too common on my street in BH. We have a liquor store that will sell to almost anyone... So I think it is more often drinking. We have a fire station near by and they do actually come and take care of people who can't lift themselves off the sidewalk.
Joy or South Russell? (Or is
Joy or South Russell? (Or is it Irving?)
I live near the bottom of Joy, and maybe it's because we're the only street that cuts all the way across the hill, but sometimes it feels like we get all the drunks, at all hours. There's probably a similar situation on South Russell by the other liquor store. It's kinda funny how both of them flank the fire station...
South Russell
The other day we had a crowd of male drunks having a party with one woman. I don't think you get the large groups of men without a woman. Anyway on the way back from Whole Foods she was urinating between the parked cars. They left after that because I think they knew their time wouldn't be long.
I know that at least occasionally the police respond to noise complaints around here.