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500 drivers ticketed in weeklong crackdown along Day Boulevard in South Boston
By adamg on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 1:11pm
Boston Police report that BPD officers and state troopers issued 500 citations in several days worth of enforcement of crosswalk, speeding and other violations along Day Boulevard and the streets that tie into it.
Police say the crackdown was in response to neighborhood concerns about bad drivers following the death of a toddler in a crash at L and East 6th streets in July.
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Close at hand
It is literally right next to a state police barracks. What took them so long?
The necessary political pressure
Because they get paid the same salary whether they confront members of the public with traffic stops, or if they just sit in the cruiser. Incentives, y'all.
NIce
Great job, but it's still too late, the kid is dead.
If the carnage stops with that kid
We are way ahead.
Good work
500 tickets issued at least 400 dismissed in South Boston District court. The ones not dismissed are from out of town.
They could do this every day
They could do this every day in any neighborhood and have the same result of catching hundreds of criminal drivers. The amount of dangerous, lawbreaking drivers in this city is almost limitless. So why are they just doing it for a few days in one small area? Are they not interested in saving lives, collecting money for the city and punishing criminal drivers? Seems like a no-brainer to me. These cops are certainly compensated enough to actually do their jobs on a regular basis.
You sound like someone who
You sound like someone who lost a girl they loved to a guy with a really nice car.
Maybe
Or maybe lost someone they loved to a hit-and-run driver who the law didn't even slap on the wrist
Possible
But he hates all things that aren't pedestrians or bicyclists and runs to demean them every chance he gets.
You sound like
You sound like our president.
Who me?
Now that's funny.
Man Power
Yes the barracks is on Day Blvd, but you have to look at the area to be covered and the man power available. I don't know how much of the Mass Pike they picked up, if any, but not considering that they have a lot of area anyway. If they have the have 2 patrols (that's the minimum) , those patrols have to cover Rte 93 from South Bay to the Braintree Split, Day Blvd., Columbia Rd from the circle to Mass Ave., Morrissey Blvd, Gallivan Blvd, Quincy Shore Dr., Furnace Brook Pkwy., as well as all the DCR parks and beaches. All it takes is one crash or disabled vehicle on any of these roadways and you lose at least one patrol tied up for how ever long it takes.If there is an arrest, then that trooper is off [patrol for as long as it takes to book that person and do the report because the only guy in the barracks is the desk officer, who is dealing with radios, walk ins and phone calls. It's not always that way but is the usual norm especially in the summer when even the troopers take vacations
Last I heard the State Police were understaffed by approx. 500 troopers because of retirements and the legislature does not fund enough new recruitment classes to make up the difference.
I know all the people will say look at what happened on the pike and I agree, they should be prosecuted and at the very least be forced to pay back the money if not lose their pensions and do some time.
All of the above...
All of the above are reasons why BPD should patrol parks and streets within Boston city limits. MSP can scale back to patrolling the highways if they are understaffed and/or partially staffed by criminals.
Fair Point
And on that point, are we to believe that the total, utter, lack of traffic enforcement in the city by BPD (E.g. on Columbia in "The Chest", Center St. in West Rox., and other speeders' paradises) is totally to do with staffing limitations?
Pick a corridor, any corridor: You could literally pull people over all day and every day. That's continuous cash money for the city.
If there are systematically too few officers to enforce the traffic laws in Boston, then maybe that speaks to a problem in staffing or in the prioritization of traffic enforcement among other policing matters. Just look to our more enlightened neighbor to the south (NYC) for a view of what a benign traffic-police-state can do for order and progress.
Funny you should mention that
Last night in LIC, Queens, I watched an NYPD "stealth car" pulling people over for blasting through the stop signs along the popular Gantry Plaza State Park.
Two cops in the front seat and two cadets in the back -- training the young'uns in the art of the traffic stop. Also, protecting the safety of the many pedestrians who visit the park.
So when do they do this for the other streets in the city?
Or do we have to wait until more people are killed there too?
Has anyone in Boston or
Has anyone in Boston or surrounding communities ever seen sobriety checkpoints?
DUI (or OUI as MA likes to
DUI (or OUI as MA likes to coin) is merely frowned upon and not taken seriously
When will they ticket
Cyclists, I was almost hit by two last week in a crosswalk with the walk signal.
Cars you can see coming. Cyclists darting through cars and running red lights not so much.
Pray Tell
Pray tell the last time a cyclist hit and killed someone
Happy to see something is
Happy to see something is finally
being done to help protect pedestrians!
Grandstanding
If at least 500 drivers are misbehaving on one street in one weekend, then the design of the street needs to change.
Otherwise, when the police leave, the street will still be unsafe and untold hundreds of drivers will not get caught.
It only takes one of those drivers to strike and kill yet another person on our streets.
Agreed. Though I suspect not
Agreed. Though I suspect not all 500 drivers were actually putting pedestrians at risk. Police typically go overboard when they're assigned to crack down on something.
What Keith said, 2 troopers on road 1 on desk most barracks
You have a better chance of hitting the lottery than getting stopped by a trooper, that's not a criticism of the troopers. It's actually dangerous for them and us.
As Keith said, often "2 and 1" two troopers on the road and one on the desk. Road patrols from the tunnels to the Braintree split, all of the Southie, Dorchester, Quincy state roads and parkways, plus beaches, Castle Island, DCR parks and MWRA and other state facilities. One arrest takes a good three hours to properly document as we've seen here with the many Mass. SJC court case dismissals which I deem to be mostly great police work but rushed report writing. The overtime scandal has caused far more retirements than reported, so if we had an active media, maybe we could get the current "count on deck" of troopers. Down 500 troopers sounds like a minimum, I might say 750.
The whole state is the same way, 2 on road 1 on desk. Scary. Whatever was done in Southie with tickets was either overtime or a grant. They still do the sobriety checkpoints and by law must publish them (they only list county) in advance to avoid "motorist anxiety" but far less than before. As I've said before, many cops don't want to be fundraisers for the insurance companies so verbal or written warnings far exceed fines that trigger a surcharge. Get the insurance lobbyists out of the picture and watch enforcement increase.
Question
When some driver crashes into a building or a person, do cops feel a moment of guilt or regret, wishing they'd at some point given him a ticket - even if means a slightly higher insurance bill - and possibly given the driver some concern that there might be consequences for their action?
Strange choice of priorities
Why are cops more concerned about dangerous drivers having to pay more for insurance rather than protecting public safety?
They should come to blue hill Avenue
Wow South boston suburbia and if you're white youre right, the real police should come down to blue hill Avenue thru mattapan double parking every where and you dont see a cop detectives even do there's a police station on Morton st