The Dorchester Reporter reports on the return of a walking beat to Bowdoin/Geneva.
Bowdoin/Geneva
The Bay State Banner reports on a sometimes contentious meeting recently between BPD officials and residents.
Boston Police report a woman coming home from a movie with her son and nephew had just gotten off the bus at Bowdoin and Norton streets last night when the area erupted in gunfire and one of the bullets grazed
Several hundred Boston police officers and federal agents swarmed through Dorchester early this morning, arresting some 30 alleged members of the Woodward Avenue and Hendry Street gangs in a bid to quell violence in the Bowdoin/Geneva and Uphams Corner neighborhoods - in particular in the Cape Verdean community.
Officials specifically targeted alleged Hendry leader Alexis Hidalgo, 31, of Dorchester, and alleged Woodward leader Jonathan DaSilva, 29, of Roxbury, in an investigation that began in 2011. In a statement, the US Attorney's office said:
The Globe has a very good and very sad look at Geneva/Bowdoin, as told through the lens of Big Nate, Trina and their 14-year-old son Nicholas, stalked and gunned down for no good reason. The point at which I almost lost it: