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Menino WiFies Floon on use of stats for community policing
By adamg on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 4:47pm
The Boston Police Department today announced a new flying squad that will use computerized data from a variety of sources to identify trouble spots in the city and then clean them up. As BPD informs us, the effort was actually announced by Mayor Thomas M. Menino:
This latest community policing initiative known as the "Constituent Response Team" (CRT) will proactively identify and analyze recurring quality of life issues through new technology that will compare data through computerized mapping. The BPD will analyze data from multiple sources to examine trends and patterns in citizen complaints for minor crimes, nuisances, social disorder such as loitering, unruly youth, public drinking, loud music and also physical disorder such as abandoned buildings, graffiti, litter and vacant lots.
The CRT is compromised of the officers from the Boston Police Department as well as representation from the Public Works Department, Transportation, Department of Neighborhood Services, Code Enforcement, the Parks and Recreation Department, Graffiti Busters and Basic City Services.
You may recall Flaherty and Yoon pushing some similar idea. But now they don't have to.
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Nice Job Mayor
Crime has been down the last few years due in part to the hard work of the Mayor. I think this will help continue the trend of making Boston a safer city for all its residents.
????
How about the three kids a month getting killed on our streets. Crime isn't down for them. Menino is there too long. He needs to go.
So unless there is zero
So unless there is zero percent crime the mayor is doing a poor job? Get a hold of yourself.
I'm glad to know the BPD
is fighting some real trouble and crime here in the city.
Abandoned buildings, empty parking lots, & loud music.
Lets not forget "social disorder"
Good job.
This sounds like
a job for the City Council.
fancy buzzwords...or community policing?
It'd be nice if Boston just put officers back on the street so they could get to know their neighborhoods without having to look at a computer screen.
Link?
Anybody have a link for Floon's similar-sounding proposal?
Yoon's website is apparently frozen in time...
Hmm, good question
Apologies if I'm mistaken, but I don't think he's come out and specifically said "let's create a constituent response team" that puts pushpins on a computer map and clean up the problem areas, but he's repeatedly called for a CitiStat program which would essentially do the same thing, by highlighting problem areas in the city based on calls from constituents (to 311, not the Mayor's Hotline).
dog in the race
Adam just come out with it! As I said before, Im a non biassed reader; non resident of Boston, and there is no doubt that your slighted humor is against the Mayor's policy's or him. I'm sorry, I like your site, but it just seems that your against him. And your links that you provided earlier were mostly links that were very old. Also, the Yoon one concerning McCrea did not portray Flaherty in a bad light, even though you were trying to infer that this showed you are truly in the middle. I'm sorry to say it, but it just reaffirms my suspicion. Thanx, I wont write about it again, I apologize , just couldn't help myself.
yes adam does like to pull out old links
Like a link from 2007 about a bar brawl to prove there is crime in allston, and better yet a reference to a 100 year old incident about typhoon mary to prove martial law and forced vaccinations have existed before.
You are sounding shriller....
...and shriller.
And you are also definitely setting a new standard for unrelieved complaining about all things Boston on this site.
shrill or not
the truth is the truth. Of course there are many that don't want to face it or have the capacity to see behind the curtain.
If you haven't noticed this site is filled with people's bitching and complaining. Most of the blogs here are negative in nature. But at least for what is left in this democratic society we can still voice our opinions and maybe just maybe it will bring about the much needed change here or a different way of thinking at least.
Thanks, Miki
If you haven't noticed this site is filled with people's bitching and complaining.
Indeed. I understand glass houses get nice and toasty in the winter.
Miki?
what is that supposed to mean?
what is it with you and all your passive/aggressive sarcastic comments?
Stop trying to impress everyone with your witty analogies and uncanny dry sense of humour.
just be straightforward and say what you want to say.
Straightforward
Nobody here likes you and you have nothing interesting to say. You are just obnoxious. Go away. Get some help.
screw off sock puppet
Speak for yourself. There are actually plenty of people that agree with me here, and even if no one did, my opinion here is a least as valid as yours or anyone else's for that matter.
so why don't you go away jackass
Raginess
Yes, your opinion is as valid as anybody else's. But longtimers here know how to argue without resorting to middle-school insults. Please knock it off.
wait a second here
c'mon now i'm the one being insulted, labeled, & generalized because you don't like my opinion on something, and then you get mad when i defend myself and give it back.
If you can dish it out then you should take it too.
Argue the substance, not schoolyard epithets
You'll get much further in life that way, trust me.
that is exactly what i do until
someone feels the need to insult me or personally attack because they don't like my opinion
You don't have an opinion
You have an emotional disorder. There's a difference.
OK, class ...
Settle down.
Adam -- Any hope ...
...for some sort of an "ignore" feature in future software upgrades?
I am done going back and forth with this guy.
The last thing i'm going to say to you mr. socket puppet, about your claim to me having nothing interesting to say, well lets just say i had started a blog on this site some time ago that had over 100 comments (and it wasn't filled with insults going back and forth.) Not many reach that height.
Seems that in fact, many people were actually quite interested in the topic.
Good day.
Promise?
So let's just say, hypothetically speaking, that you are someone who used to post here but stopped... repeatedly...
Could we fast forward to that part?
ok now you think you are a psychologist
once again another rude personal insult. That's about all i've heard from you.
speaking of middle-school insults
I can't think of an insult more middle-schoolish than- "Nobody here likes you" statement by socket puppet
I have often heard
This bullshit before.
But you've never acted quite like such a tit before.
All at once am I
Laughing till I cry
Knowing I'm on the blog where you rant.
enemies?
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
~Winston Churchill
I'm beginning to think you might be right
A definite simiarity in tone overall -- though even a bit more negative than the last reincarnation.
What is happening on the UHub lately?
Is it a full moon or something? I thought pizza wars was maybe a nice little diversion from more serious stuff, but that, along with the peds vs. cars on Comm Ave thread and the above has me thinking that maybe UHubbers are getting a little too wound up in arguing for the sake of arguing. It's starting to get a little loony in here!
The resurrection....
...of a former poster (under yet another new name) -- who has always been aggressive and disruptive (and has been banned at least once, I believe). This individual tends to put even some normally placid posters on edge -- and drives more peppery ones into outright attacks. This has gone on for at least 5 years, off and on.