Crime down in Boston
By adamg - Thu, 03/27/2008 - 8:40pm.
Latest stats from Boston Police show a 15% drop in victim crimes through March 23, compared to the same period last year.
Vehicle theft and attempted vehicle theft was down 34% citywide. Other crimes were down as well - except for murder, which stands at 14, compared to 12 at this point last year (due mainly to a jump in murders in Dorchester from 2 to 9). Non-fatal shootings are down citywide as well (the city does not break out these figures by neighborhood, but presumably the numbers would be even lower if not for six non-fatal shootings within a mile of Roslindale's Washington-Beech project this year).
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Lower Crime
You saw the same downward trend I noticed a few days ago.
Makes me wonder why the mainstream media or the BPD aren't reporting this more widely.
Maybe they know better.
Maybe they know better. Those numbers could flip-flop in the next three months, and then the police would have to explain what they're doing wrong. A three month trend doesn't tell you anything.
Car breaks down in the Parkway
The Rossie transcript reports lower crime, in its own peculiar way.
I wonder if anybody in the newsroom noticed how unsurprising this headline sounds.
And did the driver call AAA?
Best headline of the week!
Oh, and note for those of you who don't take the Transcript: "The Parkway" is the paper's attempt to create a shared community out of the two neighborhoods it serves. It's always talking about things happening in "the Parkway" to refer to West Roxbury and Roslindale, not to something that occurred on the median strip of the VFW Parkway.
Exactly
What I keep wondering is whether I'm laughing at them or laughing with them.
Given the headline ...
I thought maybe they talking about thiscar, which has been breaking down on The Parkway for some time.
Thank you for not posting that
Until after I was finished with my coffee, because I'd hate to have to explain to IT the newest way I've ruined my laptop.