Evan reports on a BPD flier posted on his West Fens building's front door warning of a rash of apartment burglaries. He says thieves make good use of the area's ubiquitous fire escapes, then adds:

... Here's the worst part...filing a report with the BPD doesn't do any good. They encounter these issues daily. In the case of my friend, the police simply told her, "it's a working neighborhood...noone is in their apartment during the day," while shrugging their shoulders. The BPD's daily patrolling program in the Fenway via mounted units, begun last spring in response to these incidents, had supposedly helped with the matter. However, with increased recent alerts (and the lack of horse shit on the sidewalks I have noticed in recent months), the program seems to have only gone so far. ...