Boston Crime
Violent crime info, based on Boston Police Department reports (see caveats). NOTE: We have data going back to 1/1/06; will work on getting older data online. Also, neighborhood pages currently show all data back to 1/1/06.
Murders for the past year
Click on a gun for more details. Also see: 2007 murders, 2006 murders.
Recent violent crimes of all typesJuly 23, 2008:
Man shot repeatedly, dead July 19, 2008:
Riddled with bullets, dead July 16, 2008:
Charged with stabbing brother-in-law July 15, 2008:
Man shot twice
Shot to death July 13, 2008:
Man shot; other man arrested July 12, 2008:
Man shot
Teen shot dead July 11, 2008:
Assault and battery with a deadly salad container July 10, 2008:
Armed robbery at Store 24
Three teens shot on third-floor porch July 09, 2008:
Man shot July 06, 2008:
Tow-truck driver assaulted July 05, 2008:
Held up over lottery winnings
Held up at knifepoint outside a Burger King
Man in car shot
Four shot at convenience store
Fatally shot July 04, 2008:
Two armed robbers get away with $3.70
Teen murdered at July Fourth cookout
Murdered in broad daylight near Faneuil Hall
Man stabbed in romantic triangle
Woman attacked July 02, 2008:
Double shooting leaves one dead June 30, 2008:
Boy caught in thug crossfire |
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Bizarro Boston: True Crime
From the human-skin book to the 99 steak-tips massacre.
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Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI and A Devil's Deal
Book: The story of corrupt FBI officials and Whitey Bulger's gang.
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Boston Neighborhood Crime Watch
Tips and news on making your Boston neighborhood safer.
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Boston Police Department
Department news, links to neighborhood stations, most wanted list.
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Boston Police Patrolmen's Association
BPD News
Daily updates and crime reports from the Boston Police Department.
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Brookline Police Department
Includes the Brookline most-wanted list.
Brookline
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Crime Statistics Database
Look up crime stats for Massachusetts communities between 1980 and 1998.
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Crime statistics, 1860-1920
Also includes stats on the number of police each year.
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DEA Fugitives
Most wanted list from the Boston office of the Drug Enforcement Agency.
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Dedham Police Department
General department information.
Dedham
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Department of Corrections Most Wanted
Inmates who have escaped from state prisons.
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Father James Porter: Pedophile Priest
Overview of the case of the pre-Geoghan priest convicted of child molestation.
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Fixed: How Goodfellas Bought Boston College Basketball
Book: How big-time mobsters corrupted the Boston College basketball program in the 1978-79 point-shaving scandal.
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Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder
Book: Tragic story of an Ethiopian student at Harvard who stabbed her roommate 45 times then hanged herself.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner heist
FBI overview of this still unsolved art crime.
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Joan Webster Murder
"This site is to gather information, discuss, and analyze the 26 year old unresolved murder of Joan Lucinda Webster. No one has ever been arrested or charged with the crime and the case remains open in Boston. Theories have been published, but it is most important to get to the truth."
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Most Wanted: James Bulger
Whitey finally makes the FBI list.
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People executed by electrocution in Massachusetts
List maintained by the state Dept. of Corrections.
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Relocation Crime Lab
Compare Boston's crime rater to other cities.
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Sex Offender Registry Homepage
Search for offenders by city or town.
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State Police Crime Data and Research
Crime statistics from across the state.
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The Boston Strangler
All about Albert DeSalvo. Includes arguments for and against his guilt and a bibliography.
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The Great Brinks Robbery
Account of the famous North End heist.
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Uniform Crime Reports
See how Boston compares with other cities in these FBI reports. In PDF.
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Youth Violence: A Community-Based Response -- One City's Success Story
By the Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention.
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Important caveats about this page and data
Data from the Boston Police Department.
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Crime headlines
Includes Boston and surrounding areas.
Teen shot by cop during struggle in East Boston
Police: Dudes running down the street late at night often up to no good
Shootings in Dorchester, Jamaica Plain
New York monk admits molesting boys in Boston
Once again, with feeling: Never give money to door-to-door Greenpeace canvassers
Reston the Rooster may be dead
Mayhem in Medford
He says, she says, but with witnesses
Man found riddled with bullets, dead
Man shot, man exposed, man upset, man in fight
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