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Boston's citywide party line
By adamg on Tue, 04/03/2007 - 9:59pm
It's to report out-of-hand late-night parties, not to gab with new friends: (617) 343-5500.
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Neighbor's phone conversations?
You mean, I can't pick up the "party line" and hear what the teenager next door is saying to his girlfriend? Or what the guy two-doors down is screaming into the phone so loudly I can hear him from here? Harrumph. What ever happened to good old fashioned entertainment?
Actually, I do occasionally get swapped up with other people's conversations on a cel phone. Fun and disconcerting all the same.
party lines
this would be great if its for real.i live next to two animal houses and whenever i call 911 they never show up.or they call me back at 4:30am and ask me if the party was still a problem? uh, the real problem was at 2:30 when people were pissing in the street smashing bottles and generally disrespecting our neighbors and neighborhood.the cops actually called me back two hours after the 911 call and asked me if they still had a problem party.i told him no, the party has seemed to quieted down and i finally got to sleep about 3:30am and now YOU ARE CALLING ME TO SEE IF PEACE HAS BEEN RESTORED? retarded.then they tell me how they are having so many more important calls in roxbury and dorchester.hmmmm.so my neighborhood is less important?(brighton) one cop told me that most weekends they only have one or two patrol cars in the allston brighton area and the rest float around the city to wherever the guns are blasting.so if you want to pull a caper come visit brighton on the weekends and you only have to look out for andy taylor and barney fife.im saving my money and heading for the suburbs.my family has been in the same house in brighton for 96 years and the end of the line is in sight.are you reading this mister mayor? the good people of your city are fleeing the students and the bloodshed and the lack of government response. i hope everything is nice and quiet over in readville.
Oh, it's not just Brighton
In my neighborhood in Roxbury, they also tell me they can't respond to noise complaints unless I believe there are out-of-control partiers putting people in danger. I wasn't about to stretch the truth, since it wasn't even a party the times I've called (I've called about a former college-student neighbor who'd play with his DJ equipment and shake our block until 2 or 3, and a current neighbor whose pre-teen sits out in the family car and cranks the booming-bass stereo).
And yes, I've had them call me back and wake me up at 4 or 5 to ask if it's still a problem. Grr.
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I live in Brighton as well,
I live in Brighton as well, and I can say that it's usually a crapshoot as to whether the police will actually show up.
I'm desperately looking for another (comparatively priced) section of Boston to move to where I won't have to deal with the waves of drunks every single night, yet I'll have decent access to a train.
It's just not worth staying here anymore.
That's great....Now if Mista
That's great....Now if Mista Mayor will just hire some more cops maybe there will be enough Officers to actually respond to these calls on a timely basis
mista mayor is a day late
mista mayor is a day late and 300 cops short. i grew up in boston and had lots of friends that wanted nothing more than to be one of boston's finest.one problem, they were white.not to turn this into an affirmitive action thing but lots of kids got perfect scores and were pushed aside so the dept could fill positions with black and hispanic officers.i have no problem what color you are but shouldnt the highest scores get these jobs? anyway that was a whiles back and its not done that way anymore but it seems like its too late.new york came up here a few years back and recruited lots of boston kids to come down to ny and be cops and lots of them went.now the police are in full court press trying to recruit young men and women to be police and now no one seems to want the jobs.low pay, you must live in the city and cops are treated like shit now by the people on the street.the horse is out of the barn.
Umm....
There is a recruiting push on right now. They (the City/Mayor) *want* to hire more police but are having trouble finding qualified candidates. They want to get away from the stereotypical Boston cop and hire a more diverse group. Just having bodies in uniforms is not in our best interest.
Its been in the papers and I believe it was on UH
boston.com/...police_to_launch_recruiting_campaign
UMMMM I know
i know there is a recruitment pitch my point was that it is too late.the prospect of being a boston cop is not what it once was.also, because it was so difficult and frustrating before when applying young men and women have moved on to jobs that dont come with so much baggage.years of doing things the wrong way have led to a dept that doesnt care as much about the city and all its problems.if all the kids i knew who were getting perfect scores would be 15 year vets but instead you have 15 year vets that were not the best qualified at the time they were hired.stupid is as stupid does.