Discussing crime in North Cambridge

Via Davis Square LiveJournal comes news of a police community meeting Friday, Sept. 14 at 6 p.m. at the Peabody School auditorium:

... Most of you know that there have been a few shootings in North Cambridge in the past couple of weeks (it doesn't appear that anyone got shot), but there have also been assaults and at least one high-speed car chase that wound up with an arrest in a Pemberton Street backyard.

North Cambridge is still a very safe place, statistically, but there is some understandable angst about recent crime, as well as unanswered questions about past crime such as the shooting at Parnell's a few months ago or the Pemberton Street shooting around the same time. ...