Boston crime thread - all posts go here. (Boston: city hall, store)

[WestieWhitie]

Originally Posted by Space_League

I remember there being occasional major crime incidents around the orange line station in the past. However it looks like there haven't been any in the past year or two? Ruggles station, Forest Hills, sometimes Jackson Square I remember having shootings/stabbings a couple per year around 2010-2015 sometimes fatal. it seems like they have been cleaned up. Maybe the problems just shifted to other lines/stations

Gentrification helped a lot - Egleston Sqaure and any place west of Dot Ave for example were no go zones just a few years ago, now you have yuppies tripping over each other writing $700K checks for a slightly fixed up flat in a previously section 8 rental triple-decker. Replace criminals with law-abiding working professionals and you have less crime, simple as that.

[msRB311]

This sounds fun:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/livebos...y-morning/amp/

[GeePee]

Originally Posted by WestieWhitie

now you have yuppies tripping over each other writing $700K checks for a slightly fixed up flat in a previously section 8 rental triple-decker.

$700 sounds like a deal actually

[msRB311]

this is weird:

https://nypost.com/2022/02/22/studen...at-boston-zoo/

I was just at the Naples zoo and heard all about this:

https://www.tmz.com/2021/12/30/tiger...zoo-custodian/

What's up with young men and tiger cages

[redplum33]

Originally Posted by msRB311

this is weird:

https://nypost.com/2022/02/22/studen...at-boston-zoo/

I was just at the Naples zoo and heard all about this:

https://www.tmz.com/2021/12/30/tiger...zoo-custodian/

What's up with young men and tiger cages

Did you watch the interview? The guy seems very off, IMO.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ6JoWeUQ4c

[msRB311]

Yup, he's crazy. Not surprised.

I'm just glad no one had to shoot this tiger like the one at the Naples zoo. Sad.

[bostongymjunkie]

Don't forget to flush if you ever use the toilet at Back Bay Station. I think I'd climb into a dumpster before I'd ever sit on one of those toilets.
https://liveboston617.org/2022/02/21...room-stabbing/

[bostonguy1960]

Actually, the men's restroom at Back Bay/South End station was recently (?) renovated. Probably the women's also?

No more exterior doors at the entrance, just walk in indirectly; yes, this deters loiterers of various types (from doing whatever until they hear the door opening like the restrooms of yore.) Many seem designed this way for this reason nowadays.

Not sure what inside the stalls or on and around the toilets looks like, especially late in the day -- but if it's like South Station, a custodian is sometimes seen trying to keep it somewhat presentable at times.

A guard was standing near the sinks last month for visibility, at least when I was there, and the sinks were relatively clean that visit, and modern, and I recall maybe each sink with its own mini hand dryer?

[msRB311]

Geez a 16 yr old stabbed in saugus yesterday and another juvenile shot in Charlestown last night:

https://whdh.com/news/boston-police-...town-shooting/

[massnative71]

As the saying goes, "When the sun comes out, the guns come out..."

3rd murder of the month, 66 Walnut Park in Roxbury.

Two shot, one dead on Walnut Park in Roxbury
https://www.universalhub.com/crime/2...t-park-roxbury