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Central Square street racked with gunfire overnight
By adamg on Sun, 05/15/2016 - 2:19pm
Cambridge Police report they are investigating "a series of gunshots" shortly after 2 a.m. in a Bishop Allen Drive parking lot.
At approximately 2:14 a.m. this morning, officers responded to Bishop Allen Drive and discovered two motor vehicles parked in Lot 6 that were struck by gunfire. There were no reported injuries or victims, but after the Cambridge Police canvassed the area, officers recovered two firearms and 13 shell casings. Responding officers spoke with a number of witnesses and all indications are that this incident was not random.
Anyone with information can call police at 617-349-3300 or contact the anonymoust tip line by calling 617-349-3359 or texting TIP650 to 847411.
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Not necessarily due to Central Sq nightlife
There's public housing right there.
Not necessarily due to public housing
There's Central Square nightlife right there.
Not necessarily due to Cantabrigians
There's the T station right there.
Must be those felonious crowds at Phoenix Landing or Middle East
Guessing that your knowledge of the burn and raised residents of central square and/or cambridgeport is rather limited.
And let's not forget
the crowds at Thelonious Monkfish.
Why not both?
It's a good place to sell drugs to clubgoers.
Yes, let's just turn all live
Yes, let's just turn all live music venues into parking garages... sigh. Music and dancing must be the real culprit!
That's Typical ignorance
This typical ignorant statement of ignorant person.
Your stereotypically assumption of a housing development population is going to doom you. Your prejudice thinking is deplorable, abominable at best.
Not all crimes are generated from a public housing development. Shameful.
How about the daylife?
The junkies are probably too strung out to be shooting at anybody, but Central is rough even in the daytime. Walk down Green Street at 9AM and you'll pass people shooting up or, on a bad day, in convulsions.
Sounds like it's a lot more
Sounds like it's a lot more rough for them than it is for you.
More like the gun shooters
More like the gun shooters are the people who the junkies are buying their drugs from.
"Can't we all just get along?
"Can't we all just get along?"
We are getting along...with a
We are getting along...with a diverse set of views and constructive arguments. It's the menaces to society that we blog about who cannot along so they resort to violence.
Let's be honest
The most complaining about fingers pointing at those who live there when it comes to crime in the area is from those who live there but aren't *from* there, and from people who live in other parts of Cambridge and don't like their little slice of stuffiness having it's reputation eroded. Anyone who was born and raised in Central Square/Cambridgeport or spend a lot of time their at street level know better. Welcome to reality, folks.
I'll say it again
Coming from a person who grew up very close to some huge public housing projects: They all are magnets for violent crime, mostly associated with gangs and drug dealing, but also a lot of random street crime. Many of these tough guys live or crash in the projects with their mom, grandma, gf, etc. Projects are also breeding grounds for recruiting gang members, usually young, expendable street level.
Those homeless, druggies, and alcoholics that hang around Central Square due to the shelters, excellent public transit options, and a city government that tolerates, even encourages the situation, are targeted and preyed on in a predatory fashion by these drug dealers and gang members.
New club "Monroe"
I can add some context perhaps as I went through there just around that time - there was a HUGE, HUGE crowd exiting new club "Monroe" which was not your typical Cambridge student clubgoers. The crowd nearly blocked Mass Ave and there was chaos as people were leaving all adjacent parking lots there. Not sure if this is something that happens typically at Monroe or if it was a specific event that evening that created such a huge boisterous crowd. I also don't know that it was connected, but it did strike me at the time that the sheer number of boozy people and not-great drivers made Csq much more hostile than it usually seems, even at that time of the night.
What sort of bands does this new club feature?
Is it similar to what the Middle East typically offers, or something different?
As far as I can tell from the
As far as I can tell from the info online, it's hip hop / rap.
Guess I should add that I live in Central, so I'm attuned to its quirks and what is standard vs unusual.