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I know Malden is not Boston but it could very well be, you can literally walk to Boston in less than 30 mn without any empty space...
I know there are other trouble spots in Boston but nothing compared to Dorchester and Mattapan... And I also know Roxbury, the south in general.
Even Brockton (southern suburb) is fairly ok if you compare to other southern cities... I used to hear shots there and there when I was there but never actually saw anything... And most of those shots were in fact firecrackers to mess with the shot spotter. But there were at one point several shootings (one ducking donut in Main st got robbed at gun point (the cashier quit her job after that), a convenient store robbed with a shotgun, Someone in Plesent street got a straight bullet logged in his apartment ceiling, some shot near Massssoit... Oh and the Harbor one bank robbery
When I think about it, how can you say some place being ok then mention all that crime that happened in a matter of months... Just that the 10 months I was there, only 1 person got killed and it was during a fist fight
Brockton is tough city but Springfield and Holyoke worst in the state
Boston’s zero homicide line, like New York’s and DC’s hasn’t moved much in the last 30 years in spite of fewer homicides overall. Blue Hills Ave is still no place to be at night. And it’s still a shocking shift crossing the river from Milton to Mattapan at the city line.
Brockton is tough city but Springfield and Holyoke worst in the state
Yeah I knew Springfield was bad.
I remember we once went to a party in Fitchburg... When we told people we lived in Brockton, they were all like "Bad place", "move out if you can"... Well, a few days later one of the party goer was shot (but survived) in that same complex... So when you got enemies, no matter where you are you are at risk... I remember that guy, he was very quite, staying on the corner, not talking to anybody...
When we returned to Brockton last year after like 7 years, we were in shock... We were like "How in hell could we have lived in that city for so long...?"The city is just run down, urban decay
Baltimore 44, shooting last night near “safe” area north of downtown and east of the JFX
DC 22, and sadly regressing from huge progress made earlier in the 2010s
Baltimore 44, shooting last night near “safe” area north of downtown and east of the JFX
DC 22, and sadly regressing from huge progress made earlier in the 2010s
about dc you have to know damn well hat aint changing lets be honest its the truth until someone helps clear the crime out of the east side of dc or some **** then its not gonna change
Baltimore 44, shooting last night near “safe” area north of downtown and east of the JFX
DC 22, and sadly regressing from huge progress made earlier in the 2010s
Chinatown in Boston has had 5/6 stabbed there’s since the month started. A Hyde Park teen was killed in Randolph and Roxbury had 3/4 shots fired yesterday alone. There was a big incident last week in Mission Hill that resulted in the cops shooting and killing an armed man (though they might have got the wrong guy) there’s also been a lot of armed robberies there, teen gun arrests.
There are several cities in MA worse than Boston (Lynn had 14 homicides in 2017) though. There’s literally nothing you could say to convince me Brockton is ok or good enough. It’s literally a drug pit full of fentanyl dealers and gangs members like HeadShot Mafia. Comparing it to violent southern cities like you did is telling. https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/10...-brockton/amp/https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...outputType=amp
I wouldn’t call Boston“safe” like an Austin, San Diego, Salt Lake, Portland, Seattle because a large chunk of the population lives in unsafe areas. 25 people can be shot over 2 weeks( all in the same 10 square miles) like what happened last summer-violence there is cyclical and explosive. But yea it’s pretty safe overall. Themetro is very safe overall. Although it has high levels of assault (stabbings/fistfight) but anyway
Boston 8 another man was killed in Dorchester. 7 of Boston’s 8 homicides in Dorchester this year.
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I remember we once went to a party in Fitchburg... When we told people we lived in Brockton, they were all like "Bad place", "move out if you can"... Well, a few days later one of the party goer was shot (but survived) in that same complex... So when you got enemies, no matter where you are you are at risk... I remember that guy, he was very quite, staying on the corner, not talking to anybody...
When we returned to Brockton last year after like 7 years, we were in shock... We were like "How in hell could we have lived in that city for so long...?"The city is just run down, urban decay
They’re trying to fix it up but the social fabric of Brockton is terrible. Powerless immigrants, low income/criminal former Bostonians, undereducated racists townies and tons and tons of drug dealers and warning shots. New Bedford and Fall River are the same with worse poverty but the solid Portuguese community gives the society a nice bedrock/foundation that acts as a regulating/steadying entity
Boston’s zero homicide line, like New York’s and DC’s hasn’t moved much in the last 30 years in spite of fewer homicides overall. Blue Hills Ave is still no place to be at night. And it’s still a shocking shift crossing the river from Milton to Mattapan at the city line.
I know Malden is not Boston but it could very well be, you can literally walk to Boston in less than 30 mn without any empty space...
I know there are other trouble spots in Boston but nothing compared to Dorchester and Mattapan... And I also know Roxbury, the south in general.
Even Brockton (southern suburb) is fairly ok if you compare to other southern cities... I used to hear shots there and there when I was there but never actually saw anything... And most of those shots were in fact firecrackers to mess with the shot spotter. But there were at one point several shootings (one ducking donut in Main st got robbed at gun point (the cashier quit her job after that), a convenient store robbed with a shotgun, Someone in Plesent street got a straight bullet logged in his apartment ceiling, some shot near Massssoit... Oh and the Harbor one bank robbery
When I think about it, how can you say some place being ok then mention all that crime that happened in a matter of months... Just that the 10 months I was there, only 1 person got killed and it was during a fist fight
Idk if that’s possible Brockton hasn’t had less than 5 homicides in a king time. If you were there 7 years ago-they had 12 homicides in 2013 I believe.
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