Stabbing at Roxbury Crossing T stop

Although I suspect the answer is the cop is doing other things; it's not like there's a new tweet every 30 seconds.

One thing that always amazes me are those stories about UFOs and meteors and what not where you always read something like:

Police in the normally quiet rural town reported several hundred phone calls from residents wondering what they'd just seen

If nothing else, maybe Boston's nascent emergency Twitter feeds will reduce calls like that here. While we don't tend to have too many alien abductions in Boston (that we know of, I guess), why shouldn't police help the public - and possibly reduce some of their own workload - by letting people know about stuff that could affect their daily lives?

So in this particular case, even if you don't care that there's somebody lying on the subway platform with fresh bullet holes, why is it a bad thing that BPD tries to warn people that Roxbury Crossing's going to be a madhouse and that maybe they should try another way to get home? And, yes, as a news junkie, I appreciate them explaining why the place is a madhouse, as opposed to the more generic MBTA "police activity" messages.

I posted about it not because it came over Twitter (I save that for discussions about rival fire feeds), but because somebody was stabbed at Roxbury Crossing and thought somebody might like to know.

But at the same time, it's possible to wonder if emergency departments should be on Twitter to being with. I'd say yes, but obviously one anon begs to differ.