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Somebody stabbed in brawl on Orange Line platform at Downtown Crossing

By adamg on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 3:37pm

Around 3:30 p.m. on the Forest Hills side, near the fare gates at the front of the platform. The victim's injuries are not considered life threatening.

Neighborhoods: 
Downtown
Topics: 
Crime
Free tagging: 
Orange Line
Downtown Crossing


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Comments

By anon on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:22pm.

The underground seems to have a serious uptick in violent crime. The Governor should assign troopers to police the subways in an effort to gain control of the criminals who obviously have no fear of the Transit Police.

By adamg on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:29pm.

And what will troopers do differently?

By anon on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 11:56pm.

Not sit in their cars aboveground doing Boston traffic patrol, perhaps.

The last time I saw a transit cop in action, he was in his cruiser chasing someone down a one-way street for going the wrong way, near South Station. Very useful use of MBTA funds.

By anon on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 4:50pm.

Disband the useless MBTA police and transfer jurisdiction to the State Police. They don't want the responsibility. But too bad! The transit system is just as important as highways!

By anon on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 5:17pm.

However they should have a permanent presence at DTX as its a hot bed of activity.

By Saul on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 5:28pm.

Maybe they wouldn't be spread too thin if they weren't busy swabbing bags.

https://twitter.com/realjaykenney/status/598981781157711872

@RealJayKenney: They are doing security bag checks at Downtown Crossing T Station. Never seen that before. #MBTA

By anon on Sat, 05/16/2015 - 9:32am.

Are conducted by TSA agents, pay attention.

By Scumquistador on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 5:23pm.

they could give the mbta cops really intimidating armor like robocop or boba fett style or something and then the criminals would fear them more

By anon on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 7:38pm.

Heavy armor = every reasonably fit criminal is going to outrun them and get away.

By kernelPanic on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 5:44pm.

State police have a notable aversion to doing real work in urban areas that requires detective work and actual no-BS community engagement. They do a great job at what they do but inner-city civilian-facing policing is not their thing.

The most recent concrete example I can recall is how badly they screwed up handling sexual assaults occurring in their private domain down at the Seaport district. Standard BPD response is to issue a community alert and follow other well-known procedures to make sure the neighbors are aware and cops are on the street looking for the bad guy. The State Police did nothing and stonewalled everyone trying to get info about the crimes. It was only after a few inquiries from globe reporters that they issued a half-assed public announcement that there was a potential predator roaming the area.

Not saying MBTA police are not screwed up but it's not a police force or jurisdiction problem in the subway. It's basically a "sheer mass of numbers" problem. Downtown Crossing is huge and it gets *flooded* by kids from all over as school gets let out. I've seen a near constant MBTA police presence in that station and even if they increased coverage with 3x more cops they'd never be able to cover all platforms and all parts of the station. Same goes for a few other major transit hubs.

By anon on Sun, 05/17/2015 - 7:53am.

But they have done a great job assisting towns like Brockton and Springfield with a community action team for running busts and patrolling within the city.

I do think putting MSP displacing transit pd would be even worse. If anything, they should dissolve the whole MSP/BPD/Massport confusion in the seaport.

By Russ on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 8:33pm.

The Underground? How old are you? I haven't heard it called that in many decades.

By anon on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 6:13pm.

Tolerated like the way a root canal is tolerated. Why?

Then inmates run the asylum.

By anon on Fri, 05/15/2015 - 9:24pm.

I've always heard the T had the worst ratio of cops:passengers out of every public transit system in the country. It's known but never addressed.

By Cappy on Sat, 05/16/2015 - 9:00am.

This is Downtown Crossing or as the BID likes to call it, Beverly Hills East! There are NOT stabbings in Beverly Hills East. This is simply not acceptable. I call do over!