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Two murders overnight, but only one getting significant media interest
By adamg on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 5:54pm
Bianca Vazquez Toness at WBUR reports Boston Police told her the media is only asking about the Allston murder, not the one in Hyde Park.
Note: The Globe did have a short piece on the Hyde Park murder.
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Predictable, but...the cops are pointing this out?
I was going to write that it was predictable that: 1) one of these murders would get more media attention than the other; and 2) that someone would note that one of these murders was getting more attention than the other.
The thing that seems odd to me, though, is that it's the police department that is doing this. I don't want to read any tone (e.g., of indignation)into a hearsay twitter post, but it seems weird to me that the cops would be the ones to point this out. Given that most people view the role of the police department as preventing crime (in addition to investigating it) I'm not sure that I'd be out there saying, "hey, you know that there were two murders in my jurisdiction last night, right?" if I worked for the police department.
It just seems a little strange to me.
Two killings, likely murders, by gun shot
Mayors Against Illegal Guns info here.
Most shootings and murders
Most shootings and murders get no action here at UHub. I see the Allston murder has 25 comments.
Tends to happen
When it's in a "good" neighborhood unfortunately.
But the other way to look at it is several of the commentators also have lived, or do live there.
One thing I'm surprised about is the lack of comments on post about violence from residents of other neighborhoods here. Every now and then, and way after the fact, you might get a virtual memorial on a post. But there seems to be a lack of community voice from some areas of Boston (here), unfortunately.
"good" neighborhood
not really.
Wouldn't know it
from the housing prices, would you?
housing prices are high
because you can charge 1800 for a two bedroom. location location location. that doesnt mean its a good or safe neighborhood. lot of drug dealers along comm ave.
Yeah- but the majority of the
Yeah- but the majority of the comments on the Allston thread are not about the murder but how much Allston and other UHUB posters suck.
Where are the HP politicians?
Earlier this week, a South Boston nurse, was murdered inside her home. Three politicians-former Mayor Ray Flynn, Sen. Jack Hart, and Rep. Nick Collins rushed to her home and decried the horrific crime. To their moral credit and courage, they encouraged their community to provide any info to the police.
Lsst night, a young man was shot multiple times,and ran down River St., until he collapsed in front of a grocery store where a BPD detail officer called for help. 15 unsolved murders out here in the past few years and yet another last night. But, nary a reported comment today from City Council President Steve Murphy, City Councilors Consalvo or Arroyo, or the Mayor. Where is their outrage? Where is their outreach to the community? What are they doing for this HP neighborhood that has more than suffered its share of unsolved murders and shootings in recent years?
This neighborhood has worked very hard to keep the streets out here safe and free from gang related gun violence by working with the police and demanding police accountability. It took great pains to see that the Wood Ave Eagles were put under the microscope by the Boston Globe after 5 men were shot down on Wood Ave in 2010. As a result of intensive BPD presence, neighborhood efforts, and public knowledge that the neighbors were not going to tolerate their antics, we had no shootings or murders in 2011.
This neighborhood has requested Shotspotter installation along the Cummins/Wood/River corridor, bc of the l5 unsolved murders and umpteen unsolved shootings out here in the last 5 years, but while the body count mounts, the excuses from the City just continue. Universal Hub has a Deadly Triangle map detailing those crimes.
On behalf of the Ross Field neighborhood, our sincere condolences go out to the family of the yet unidentified young man, who literally ran for his life, in our neighborhood, last night. Had Shotspotter been installed, by the City, years ago, the BPD & EMS would have been dispatched simultaneously, once gunfire was detected. Perhaps the outcome would have been different. We will never know.
Pehaps Ms. Toness and WBUR will ask those very questions?
Race?
It's a little unprofessional for this "journalist" to immediately focus in on race. The real reason there was more media attention on the BU/Allston murder is because it's much more rare for a murder to occur in Allston than it is in Mattapan/Hyde Park/Roxbury/Dorchester. Simple as that.
I also agree with Nancy Drew. Instead of shooting the messengers (the media) maybe people should be asking why there isn't more outrage from the community and the politicians who represent it when murders occur in Mattapan/Hyde Park/Roxbury/Dorchester.
What are the politicians
What are the politicians gonna do? They aren't cops and cops can't be everywhere all the time anyway. I have an idea, how 'bout people just stop shooting each other?! Also- I looked into shotspotter and it doesn't stop people from shooting, it just helps cops respond faster.
Isn't quick police response what solves crimes & saves lives???
l5 unsolved homicides out here speaks volumes. Let's not forget the murdered body neighbors on Oakwood Street awoke to find leaning up against a fence, the 2 murdered men, whose decomposed bodies, were found in a car, on HP's Clare Avenue, a week after they were murdered, or the murdered man, neighbors awoke to find, hanging out of the backseat of a car on Rowe St in Roslindale.
Shotspotter might have sent them to a hospital, not a morgue.