Washington Street is shut between Cummins Highway and Forest Hills tonight as police investigate violence at Washington and Stellman Road that left at least one person near death. Police were looking for three mean who fled into the nearby Archdale project.
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Really people? Come on.
By anon
Fri, 04/19/2013 - 8:09pm
Really people? Come on.
Nice to know
By anon
Fri, 04/19/2013 - 8:13pm
scumbag gangbangers don't take breaks for anything.
You'd think especially since
By foxorian
Fri, 04/19/2013 - 9:08pm
You'd think especially since the police presence all around here is the largest it's ever been.
Not really. It's been
By anon
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 10:20am
Not really. It's been elsewhere, with very little presence in the inner city. Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, etc. carried on like nothing was happening yesterday. I wish we could get the same focus and attention. For many of us in the city, "back to normal" is just the same as it was during the manhunt - trapped inside and scared to go out.
Back to normal
By anon
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 11:34am
Means white people don't get murdered.
New England conservatory is still closed until Boston is safe for basps again.
While the cat is distracted
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 9:41pm
The rats will rampage.
Should be three *men*, not *mean*
By Cleary Squared
Fri, 04/19/2013 - 9:56pm
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Should be three *maggots*, not *men*
By anon
Fri, 04/19/2013 - 11:24pm
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Touche...
By Cleary Squared
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 9:21am
How about three mean maggots masquerading as men?
What's up with Roslindale
By fibrowitch
Fri, 04/19/2013 - 10:37pm
Were they jealous of the attention Watertown was getting?
Archdale needs help
By Jnotloggedin
Fri, 04/19/2013 - 11:27pm
Roslindale as a whole is fairly low key and quiet most of the time. And the vast majority of the folks living in the relatively small Archdale neighborhood are decent people, but...there's clearly a small cancerous group of thugs lurking there now. And apparently there aren't any dimes dropping. I don't know why the authorities haven't been able to get a handle on them - lack of a credible community liaison? Seems like the city should be reaching out to elders/religious leaders etc to get the neighbors' help flushing these cancers out.
How about we stop screaming
By anon
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 10:27am
How about we stop screaming "profiling" and "unconstitutional" every time a gangbanger get pulled over and searched?
We don't do that, troll
By Jeff F
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 11:32am
Go back under your bridge. If you actually evolve into a thinking human being, and not a ranting idiot, feel free to come back and join the conversation.
For every gun charge that
By anon
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 1:53pm
For every gun charge that sticks, how many are tossed because the suspect's 'civil rights' were allegedly violated? Out of all the recent Boston shooters, not counting the two terrorists, how many DON'T have prior gun charges that were tossed?
why don't you tell us, Mr. Leads-the-question?
By Jeff F
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 7:26pm
First a blatant generalization, now a rhetorical insinuation. Either back it up with some data or you're just blowing smoke. I think it's laughable that you think the reason bad guys get away with stuff is because the BPD is afraid of civil rights lawyers.
You live in the Archdale
By NotWhitey
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 11:22am
You live in the Archdale projects. You're deathly afraid a stray bullet will kill your child. Do you sit on your ass waiting for the city to send in a 'community liason?' That's not a rhetorical question.
If not rhetorical, then completely unclear
By Jeff F
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 12:04pm
I know you're mostly a moan-and-complain-on-general-principles kind of guy, but could you explain what point you were attempting to make, or actual question you were trying to raise?
(And btw, I think using 'projects' to blanket describe that entire neighborhood is inaccurate and an attempt to bias. Yes, there is an affordable/Sec8 housing complex there, but the majority of the homes are typical triple deckers or detached Boston capes that are either free-market rentals or owner occupied. It's a working class neighborhood, not some sort of apocryphal ghetto).
Crime in Archdale
By anon
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 11:42am
Jnotloggedin is right on the money. The community of Roslindale has not showed much concern for public safety in this, the only area in the neighborhood where crime is high. The community should come together to support the efforts of a small crime watch group in the area. Roslindale has crime watch groups throughout the community, but there is no vehicle for them to come together in a concerted effort to reduce crime. There has not been a group addressing this since Healthy Roslindale folded in 2007. It's time for some visibility and action by key stakeholders - churches, neighborhood groups, crime watch groups, elected officials, police etc.
I agree with your second point, but not so much the first
By Jeff F
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 3:13pm
Ftr, I am 'Jnotloggedin' (was using spouse's iThang to read UH that night).
I must disagee somewhat with your first point - I think many people in 'greater Rosi' are concerned about the increase in troubling events in the Archdale neighborhood (I know I am). Over the last year or two, I've heard it as a topic of conversation on many occasions - in people's homes, in the village stores, at the farmer's market etc.
But I do think you are completely correct on point #2 - what we haven't seen is many opportunities where the community is asked to come together as a whole to support that neighborhood's efforts to roust the trouble.
I think part of the disconnect is due to the fact that Rosi is divided between different political jurisdictions on every concievable level - it's split in half by city council, policing district, state legislature and senate, and the US congress. So there's no professional politician that has "Roslindale" as hir constituency.
Without any defacto leadership to rally whole-community efforts, it's become a chicken-and-egg conundrum. If there were strong voices from Archdale asking the whole community to show up in some tangible way to help that neighborhood, I think there'd be a lot of buy in. But no one is doing that, which makes it hard for people to have courage to stand up and organize. Round and round.
Archdale terrorists
By anon
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 3:53pm
Jnotloggedin -- you have it right. You are right about dropping a dime. People are afraid to use secure text message system the BPD has set up. They should no be afraid. You are right about the few people who are bad apples in the neighborhood. Law enforcement will tell us that is the case everywhere. You are right that the whole Roslindale Community should get involved to bring support, visibility and pressure to the situation.
Come on, guys
By Will LaTulippe
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 1:07am
We just captured terrorists. Can't you just go out and drink a beer and chant "U-S-A" like normal people?
We captured a suspect.
By anon
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 10:52am
We captured a suspect.
He robbed a 7/11, killed a cop, and carjacked a guy
By Will LaTulippe
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 8:18pm
That's enough reason for me to call him a terrorist.
I don't think you've been
By ladyk
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 8:34pm
I don't think you've been following this story very closely. The 7/11 incident did not involve the brothers. It was entirely separate, just coincidence that it was near where the MIT cop was killed.
Correction: He killed a cop and carjacked a guy
By Will LaTulippe
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 8:42pm
That's enough reason for me to call him a terrorist.
Assumptions
By anon-GH
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 1:12am
Assumptuions are being made that the BM tragedy effects all. Just like Boston,"the world class city",doesnt have serious racial issues.
How is this a racial issue
By anon
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 6:38am
Other than your white guilt!
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