Shots fired on Dale Street in Roxbury

By adamg on Sat, 07/30/2016 - 6:31pm

Around 6:20 p.m., near Mills Street. One car was hit.

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Since there are several

By anon on Sat, 07/30/2016 - 8:13pm.

Since there are several shooting/killings in Roxbury/Dorchester a day, can you just put them in some sort of scoreboard on the side and stop cluttering the news with them. It would make this site easier to read. Thank you.

No, sorry, won't do that

By adamg on Sat, 07/30/2016 - 9:26pm.

These shootings and gunfire incidents ARE news (also, no, there are not several killings a day, or even a week, in Roxbury/Dorchester). Depressing, yes - believe me, I'd much rather write about oddball signs on the Greenway and take pictures of cool new murals. I realize there are nice uplifting stories I don't write or link to because I'm too busy writing down what I hear on the scanner, and I have to keep reminding myself that Boston is actually one of the safest large cities - even as I tell my wife "you don't want to know," when she asks me what's happening in Boston today (at the same time, Universal Hub is hardly the go-to site for news on the opioid explosion and what that's doing to Boston, so I guess there's plenty of other depressing stuff besides shootings I'm missing).

But one of the reasons I run the site the way I do is to answer the question "Why are there all those cruisers on that street?" I get asked that all the time now on Twitter (on Facebook, meanwhile, the most shared UHub stories are generally the shooting/gunfire ones). Maybe you don't want to know, but plenty of other people do. That's even aside from the question of whether basically ignoring the problem will make it go away.

Thank you Adam. I couldn't

By anon on Sat, 07/30/2016 - 10:22pm.

Thank you Adam. I couldn't have said it any better myself. You do a great job with this site and I really appreciate it.

Imagine actually seeing some of this stuff.

It takes a toll. (Not looking for sympathy.)

- a Boston Cop

How many deaths today? Oh, just 3. Average day....

By Daan on Sun, 07/31/2016 - 8:21pm.

That is what putting shootings and killings on a scoreboard on the side amounts to. That turns the reality of violence and deaths into the scoreboard of a video game, or pinball machines.

The latest and greatest pinball: Murder in Metropolis. Bumper scores for near shots. Drop scores for non fatal. Start the multiball count with fatalities. Do a cop killing or mass killing and get your multiballs!

There is a spirit of destruction, a contempt for life, an air of psychopathic evil in Boston and every other large American city. It's expressed in many ways. Gun violence, gang violence, murders for drugs and money. And the lessor insults against residents who want peaceful lives: loud parties every weekend night in Franklin Park, boom boom cars, dangerous motorbikes, motorcycles with after market exhausts all for the purpose of harassing people who just want reasonable peace and quiet in the neighborhoods and homes. Add the psychopathic pushers who are utterly inured to the emotional and physical violence they enable by being parasites living off of human misery.

That 7 people would upvote this idea of a game like scoreboard for deaths is not surprising. Are we becoming dulled to violence against others so that it is treated as a video game? At least until it happens to one's self or family?

Please go away

By anon on Mon, 08/01/2016 - 12:26am.

Maybe go on some kind of vision quest or journey. You should look for the basic humanity that separates us from baser animals.
Only your ability to type shows you have any human characteristics.

You're comment was reprehensible.

Good Lord.

A tale of Two Cities

By anon on Sun, 07/31/2016 - 8:47am.

While the rest of the media is focused on the latest news of Donnie and Hillary and Kim and Kanye, Adam is the voice of the neighborhoods and the riding public. Thank you Adam for keeping it real.

Universal Hub, is one place I

By beautiful_nightmare on Sun, 07/31/2016 - 9:42pm.

Universal Hub, is one place I can get real news from when it comes to exactly what is taking place besides my neighborhood in Roslindale. No score board is needed for this. It's real news being reported. I check U.H more then I turn into news outlets on TV. Violence is reality, just like opening up a new business is consider news bc it's new to you. So yes Adam keep doing what you do and the way you do it. Thank you!!!