Woman shot to death in Dorchester

What's also quite sad and disgusting is the fact that our present administration in Washington has been throwing untold amounts of good money after bad for our disastrous debacle in Iraq for the past several years, and sending our own soldiers (men and women) who're clearly needed here...at home. That money and man (and woman) power that we've invested in our Iraq debacle could well be spend fighting a war right here on our homefront---inotherwords...making the effort to fix
the problems right here in our own backyard.

The fact that some Boston neighborhoods (and neighborhoods throughout the United States, for that matter, are under such seige with shootings, drive-by shootings, and other forms of murder are the results of decades of neglect by our politicians, which has undoubtedly been compounded by the policies of the G. W. Bush Administration.

To quote from Jules Wittcover's book The Year the Dream Died: Revisiting 1968 in America

"These kids don't understand that when they're killing each other, it is because that
nobody did anything 30 years ago to alleviate the problems in their neighborhoods"

Although the above-mentioned book came out almost ten years ago (1998), it's still very relevant, even now.

Another book that gives an excellent insight into what has resulted from decades of neglect on the part of prominent politicians on the local and national level(s) is Official Negligence by Lou Cannon. Although this book is about the South Central L. A. riots that took place back in the early 1990's, that, too, is still relevant today.