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Welcome back, BU, BC students: Boston Police have a little surprise for you
By adamg on Thu, 08/29/2013 - 2:12pm
BU Today reports District D-14, which covers Allston and Brighton, begins a booze crackdown next month that will feature more arrests as the first response to violations of alcohol-related laws. BU Today quotes BPD Superintendent William Evans:
We are going to come down a little harder at the outset than we did last year. When a party gets out of control, we’re going to take action.
The move comes in response to general mayhem over the past school year in the Gardner/Ashford/Pratt area that included a murder, assaults, sexual attacks and robberies.
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Maybe they could include the
Maybe they could include the Back Bay where a group of about 12 obnoxious drunk college students was walking down Dartmouth street with red cups full of rum in hand.
One particularly charming young lady was advising locals to eat her shit. Kind of put a damper on a nice night celebrating the anniversary of the March on Washington.
Are there large numbers of BC kids living in the BU Ghetto?
If the motivation is truly "general mayhem over the past school year in the Gardner/Ashford/Pratt area", then perhaps the little surprise ought to be limited to the BU kids, as I've never heard of any significant number of BC kids living all the way down there. There's a reason the Gardner/Ashford/Pratt area is called the "BU Ghetto".
Now, if there has been general mayhem in the Strathmore/Sutherland/Kinross area (I haven't heard of anything even approaching the level of the events described in the Gardner/Ashford/Pratt area), then we might lump the Eagles in.
[Disclosure: in a previous millennium I attended Boston College].
No, the GAP is all BU, all the time
But D-14 covers both ends of the neighborhood, so I lumped BC in as well.
Interestingly
none of the murderers, sexual assailants, muggers, stabbers, or carjacking terrorists were drunk BU students. A good number of the victims were, though.
Perhaps the police should allocate their resources towards reducing actual crime, not nuisances. As annoying as I find screaming, puking 19 year olds, I've never felt any of them were endangering my person.
Yes we need our police force
Yes we need our police force to fight those crimes as well, but some "year round permanent residents" also deserve respect with regard to our livelihood (say for instance: no screaming/shouting after midnight and no destruction to our property). It should be common courtesy but unfortunately it is not.
Here is too good neighbors!
Screaming, puking students are still beyond disgusting...
and disruptive to ordinary people who have to get to work, or go about their business the next day. It's still disrespectful, imho, and, if these kids are old enough to go to college, they're old enough to have some respect and consideration for their neighbors.
Or here's a better idea; Maybe the local colleges and universities shouldn't infringe so much and move so deeply into the various nearby neighborhoods, because they ruin a neighborhood's character that way. It's a small wonder that residents of certain other (unmentioned) neighborhoods don't want college students taking up residence in their areas.
Ooohh I hope this happens on
Ooohh I hope this happens on Mission Hill too. Last night was loud and it is only the start.
Fingers crossed for good neighbors.