Boston Crime
Violent crime info, based on Boston Police Department reports (see caveats). NOTE: We have data going back to 1/1/06; will work on getting older data online. Also, neighborhood pages currently show all data back to 1/1/06.
Murders for the past year
Click on a gun for more details. Also see: 2007 murders, 2006 murders.
Recent violent crimes of all typesMay 13, 2008:
Slashed and robbed May 11, 2008:
Roommate charged with stabbing man to death May 07, 2008:
Teen shot in stomach May 06, 2008:
Stabbed over a parking space
Punched, kicked, robbed at Hess station May 04, 2008:
Wanted man taken down at Hip Zepi store
Man beaten in attempted robbery
Five charged with stomping, stabbing man May 03, 2008:
Body dumped in Franklin Park
Do-gooders beaten up May 02, 2008:
Shot to death
Knocked to the ground, robbed April 29, 2008:
Man charged with armed robbery of neighbor
Teen stabbed April 27, 2008:
Sleeping church vandal wakes, injures cop April 26, 2008:
Beats housemate with a crutch
Charged with dumping woman out of his car April 23, 2008:
Attempted rape of elderly woman
Tries to blow up wife's car April 22, 2008:
Beaten with a baseball bat at a Burger King April 21, 2008:
Landlord stabbed
Masked men rob Domino's delivery man at knifepoint
Four shot
Shot in the head, dead
Boy, 13, shot twice |
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Bizarro Boston: True Crime
From the human-skin book to the 99 steak-tips massacre.
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Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI and A Devil's Deal
Book: The story of corrupt FBI officials and Whitey Bulger's gang.
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Boston Neighborhood Crime Watch
Tips and news on making your Boston neighborhood safer.
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Boston Police Department
Department news, links to neighborhood stations, most wanted list.
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Boston Police Patrolmen's Association
BPD News
Daily updates and crime reports from the Boston Police Department.
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Brookline Police Department
Includes the Brookline most-wanted list.
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Crime Statistics Database
Look up crime stats for Massachusetts communities between 1980 and 1998.
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Crime statistics, 1860-1920
Also includes stats on the number of police each year.
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DEA Fugitives
Most wanted list from the Boston office of the Drug Enforcement Agency.
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Dedham Police Department
General department information.
Dedham
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Department of Corrections Most Wanted
Inmates who have escaped from state prisons.
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Father James Porter: Pedophile Priest
Overview of the case of the pre-Geoghan priest convicted of child molestation.
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Fixed: How Goodfellas Bought Boston College Basketball
Book: How big-time mobsters corrupted the Boston College basketball program in the 1978-79 point-shaving scandal.
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Halfway Heaven: Diary of a Harvard Murder
Book: Tragic story of an Ethiopian student at Harvard who stabbed her roommate 45 times then hanged herself.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner heist
FBI overview of this still unsolved art crime.
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Joan Webster Murder
"This site is to gather information, discuss, and analyze the 26 year old unresolved murder of Joan Lucinda Webster. No one has ever been arrested or charged with the crime and the case remains open in Boston. Theories have been published, but it is most important to get to the truth."
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Most Wanted: James Bulger
Whitey finally makes the FBI list.
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People executed by electrocution in Massachusetts
List maintained by the state Dept. of Corrections.
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Relocation Crime Lab
Compare Boston's crime rater to other cities.
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Sex Offender Registry Homepage
Search for offenders by city or town.
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State Police Crime Data and Research
Crime statistics from across the state.
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The Boston Strangler
All about Albert DeSalvo. Includes arguments for and against his guilt and a bibliography.
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The Great Brinks Robbery
Account of the famous North End heist.
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Uniform Crime Reports
See how Boston compares with other cities in these FBI reports. In PDF.
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Youth Violence: A Community-Based Response -- One City's Success Story
By the Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention.
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Important caveats about this page and data
Data from the Boston Police Department.
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Crime headlines
Includes Boston and surrounding areas.
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Thug cop gets 26 years
T police: Green Line groper grabbed
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Robbed at gunpoint in Brookline
Lightbulb goes on over slob's head - when guy throws it at him, police say
Fowl play suspected in Somerville disappearance
Store 24 held up by guy wearing a t-shirt around his head
At least Roslindale hasn't had any shootings lately
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