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Woman sexually attacked in broad daylight near Alewife T stop
By adamg on Mon, 12/15/2014 - 5:39pm
Arlington Police report they are looking for a man who attacked a woman between 2 and 3 p.m. yesterday in a wooded area near the Rte. 2 underpass and behind the Alewife Brook Reservation.
The suspect is described as Hispanic, in his 20s, about 5’5” and 150 lbs. He had black, braided hair and brown eyes, and woreblack boots, black corduroy pants with a red canvas belt, a blue beanie hat that had snowflakes on it, a dark blue jacket and a gray plaid pullover collar that stuck out from under his jacket.
Anyone with information can contact Inspector Greg Foley at 781-316-3916.
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APD busy at BlackLivesMatter rally
While this brown man is accused of sexually assaulting a woman near Alewife, most of the Arlington Police force was tied up in Arlington center with the rally and a traffic light repair project. The rally itself produced no outcome.
Excellent job by the victim for an unusually detailed description so helpful to catching this guy. I hope he is caught soon.
Go take a flying leap at a rolling rubber donut
Or, maybe, just go play in traffic.
Confused
So, are you suggesting that if the cops hadn't been at the rally, they would have been hanging out at this underpass? Or that this suspect was waiting for the day of a big protest to finally arrive so he could finally sexually assault someone?
I mean, you are attempting to tie the protest to this assault case, but you haven't actually done anything but mention them in the same breath.
Here's an example: Markk02474 and the Klu Klux Klan, the KKK as it were, have more than one K back-to-back in their names.
Well said. Made for a good
Well said. Made for a good laugh. I too had no idea where mark was going with his post
Just reporting the facts
Like news outlets might do without implying anything. Speculate as you like. The second paragraph was my opinion, however.
ANTI-POLICE RALLIES
During the manhunt for the marathon bombers many neighborhoods in Boston complained that their neighborhoods were stripped of police coverage as the police concentrated their hunt in Watertown. Now the police have to concentrate all their resources to traffic control to protect highways,subways and streets from being taken over by anarchists and suburban street soldiers.
You do realize that police bring in extra officers for protests
That's why the Herald's running stories about all the overtime costs.
Nobody makes them send so many out
And I haven't seen much justification for it other than "ZOMG! MUST CONTROL SCARY PEOPLE ACTUALLY WALKING AROUND IN LARGE GROUPS! ESCAPE IS FUTILE!"
You are clearly a very active
You are clearly a very active commenter on here. Have you missed the countless reports of people walking onto highways? The police presence is to mitigate very real and obvious public safety risks of people who don't understand peaceful assembly and have no common sense.
Something you may have missed?
The twice-daily reports of people driving onto highways until they are so full that nothing moves and nothing can get through?
Where are the arrests?
Moving police around because
Moving police around because people think it's a good idea to stand in the street isn't quite the same as moving police around to search for murderers.
If you have any more specific info about the location
I'd be interested to know, as would other people here. It sounds like you may be describing the footpath from Alewife station to Acorn Park (aka Cambridge Discovery Park), which does go through a pretty secluded area. There are emergency call boxes along this path.
Not all the paths
The older section down the minuteman and on the Alewife Brook Path do not have call boxes or lighting. Given the number of incidents in these places it would help to have them installed. A lot of people go jogging and dog walking during the day but it's still secluded.
The Alewife path is very dark and twisty. You can't see it from the road and there are lots of places for a would-be attacker to hide and escape. I've never seen a cop out there -- they'd need to patrol by foot to do any good.
Alewife
Agreed. I haven't walked it in a long time but that part of the path has a lot of secluded areas. I would not walk there alone/in the dark. There are others who use it but it's not super safe at night.
It's all dark I think. It's
It's all dark I think. It's the way you'd walk if going from Alewife to the Arlington bike path. The bike path is also not lit (which I find to be insane).
Lights for cyclists are mandatory nighttime equipment.
Cyclists must use lights at night on the roadways, and although this isn't a roadway, the advice "Don't be a lame-ass." applies.
If they crash, they deserve it for being stupid and acting illegally.
Walking and afraid?
Keep your phone ready to speed-dial 911 because lighting won't help much.
Insanity is in the mind of the insane.
You know what's insane?
You know what's insane? Pedestrians wearing all black in the dark, walking an unlit bikepath. You know why my oncoming light is blindingly bright? I'm not looking for potholes - I know there aren't any on the path. I'm looking for dumbass people riding or walking the path after dark with no lights or reflectors.
Bike headlight for seeing or for being seen
Most bicycle headlights, including mine, are intended primarily so that you are seen by other people -- motorists, other cyclists, and pedestrians. They aren't strong enough to light your way on an entirely unlit path like the Minuteman in Arlington. If I ride this at night with my headlight, I have to go fairly slow to avoid overrunning the headlight beam.
One of my biggest complaints
One of my biggest complaints about Alewife Station is that it's really hard to walk there from nearby neighborhoods without taking isolated paths that aren't along roads.
It's not a good way to design a transit station. Even if you want to encourage most people to drive there, some people will still need to walk.
Do you really think Alewife
Do you really think Alewife was designed in the 80s with walking in mind?
It is a commuter station. The paths and the development came much later.
There was a MDC ice rink within walking distance
Now being reclaimed by nature.
East Arlington and North Cambridge were already well-developed
long before Alewife station opened in 1985. The east (Russell Field) entrance to the station is there specifically for use by the North Cambridge neighborhood (Harvey Street, Dudley St, Rindge Towers, etc).