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Holdups on West Newton Street in the South End
By adamg on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 9:56pm
OK, you can't rely on the daily papers or BPDNews to tell you about all crime in the city.
The South End News reports on a pair of holdup attempts (one successful) on West Newton Street after midnight over the past week. In the first incident, Feb. 6, a 6-foot black guy knocked a woman to the ground to try to get her purse; he fled when she started screaming. In the second incident, Feb. 10, a slim black man wearing a dark hoodie and jeans used a handgun to hold up a couple walking on West Newton near Columbus Avenue.
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Comments
Better Data From BPD?
Adam, have you spoken w/ folks at BPD about releasing all their data? As far as I can tell they just release information in end-of-the-year reports and the blog. No systematic incident-level data. This is nuts. Folks should have access to this information. Many other departments release great data that people can then work with ... Sacramento, Houston, Chicago, etc, etc.
How do we put pressure on them to release it? Or do we have to wait for a flaherty/tobin/martin administration?
It might be a question of asking
Back when I first started mapping Boston crimes, somebody at BPD actually gave me a spreadsheet listing all of "Part 1" crimes (basically, crimes involving a victim, except, I think, rape) for a month in Boston. So at least a couple years ago, they were willing to part with the information.
It proved incredibly time-consuming to link to latitudes and longitudes because Boston has multiple instances of different neighborhoods with the same street names (and even same street numbers) and because the BPD lists them by police districts, not Zip codes. But maybe it's time to ask again, and to see if there'd be a way to expose the data I'm sure they have (the BPD seems pretty savvy with data) in a more public way.
I dunno ...
I dunno, Rick, how about Monday morning you get up and call down to Boston Police headquarters and ask?
100 to one odds you won't.