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Police: Officers subdue, arrest gunman without shooting him
By adamg on Thu, 04/16/2015 - 1:51pm
Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury man armed with a loaded gun after "a violent struggle" yesterday afternoon.
Police say gang-unit officers patrolling the H-Block area of Roxbury due to recent gun violence spotted a guy "acting suspiciously" outside 30 Harold St. around 3:10 p.m. and went over to talk to him:
When the suspect refused to take his right hand out of his jacket pocket, officers performed a pat frisk and felt what they immediately recognized as a firearm in the suspect’s right hand. A violent struggle ensued, with the suspect in control of the weapon as officers wrestled him to the ground. Showing great restraint and tremendous courage in the face of this imminent danger, officers were able to prevail, placing the combative suspect in custody and recovering the loaded firearm. The RG Industries RG26 .25 Caliber Semi-Automatic Handgun was turned in as evidence.
Jordan Evans, 21, of Roxbury, was charged with several gun-related offenses, was taken to the hospital with injuries sustained in the struggle, police say.
Innocent, etc.
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He'll be out by the weekend
But great job by the BPD.
Police PR....
I'm not saying it's inaccurate, but it's also certainly not Joe Friday giving us, 'just the facts, ma'am'.
Regardless, great job by the officers doing a job that certainly takes restraint and courage to do.
I was just about to comment on EXACTLY this
It smacks of trying a little to hard to say "look, we didn't shoot this guy even though lots of other police might have" without saying "we didn't shoot this guy even though lots of other police might have".
I understand that the BPD wants to, and needs to, communicate this. However, I think that any thinking person is going to realize that there was a lot of restraint and courage displayed from reading a just the facts-type report that the previous poster alluded to. At some point, the trying too hard PR "report" is going to make people suspicious that something might be up (e.g., that there is bad news that needs to be divulged).
I want to be clear, however, that I wholeheartedly second the previous poster's accolade for the street cops (who presumably are not writing the press release-type "report" that Adam posted). These women and men are in an extremely dangerous position every day and we should all be thankful that there are people prepared to do what they do.
more on Police PR
I'm not certain, but I suspect it may be officers (not pro PR hacks) writing the BPD blog, and I take a bit of hyperbole with toungue planted in cheek.
Side note: I once heard a talk by a retired cop, who wrote the Police Blotter column for The South End News during the rough 80's and 90's. The column was written very informally, with some pretty colorful and humorous descriptions of crime and criminals. I think the SE News and Courant still copy the format to this day.
He looked like the Hollywood cast Old Irish Boston Cop. His captain tapped him on the shoulder one day and told him that the regular guy was sick, so he had to convert the reports into the daily press release blotter. I think he said he had (barely) a high school education, so he wrote the report the best he could. At first, he said he was a bit embarrassed by the typo's and the jokes, but then heard that the papers' readers enjoyed his column, and found it funny, so he kept going with the same informal style.
If Sue O'Connell or anyone who knows better is reading this and I mis-spoke, please correct me. I just heard this at a neighborhood meeting back in 2004 or so.
I think you're right
BPD used to have fulltime professional PR people (Cheryl Fiandaca, formerly of Channel 5 and before her somebody whose name I'm now blanking on, but she now does PR for the state gaming commission), but now it's police officers and Lt. Michael McCarthy (and perhaps the odd intern).
For what it's worth ...
BPD's press release doesn't really say anything about the restraint shown in not shooting the guy. I put that in the headline because this is the latest in a series of incidents in which they certainly could have shot the guy (although I wonder about how or whether that would work when you're in a physical struggle with him, as opposed to the cases where the suspect was aiming a gun from a distance) and yet they didn't, and that, for better or worse, seems kind of noteworthy given the news we read from other places.
BPD you suck...
but you're doing a great job?
Summed up those ridiculous
Summed up those ridiculous comments.