Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute

If BPDNews isn't enough for you, you can always sign up for the Boston Police's Citizen Alerts, which are e-mail messages designed to alert residents and businesspeople in specific neighborhoods about things they should be on the lookout for - patterns of specific types of crime and the like. The latest one, though, doesn't give residents anything to look out for, but seems designed to press home the department's new push to get people to actually tell it things:

... Area B-2 Detectives uncovered an operation in which a Mission Hill man solicited men on the Internet, for sex for a fee. Detectives obtained a search warrant and arrested the suspect and seized his computer. This investigation was the result of cooperation from the community and the Police. Without the help of the residents this activity would have been difficult for the Boston Police to discover and investigate. ...