"Free night at the zoo lets city celebrate crime watch efforts" by Abbie Ruzicka, Globe Correspondent | August 5, 2009
Thousands of people flooded Franklin Park Zoo last evening for Boston’s annual Wild About National Night Out, a free community outreach program designed to encourage community policing programs in the city’s neighborhoods.
The event, which is part of a national campaign that focuses on police-community collaboration and neighborhood crime watch programs, was expected to draw about 10,000 people, said Carolyn MacNeil, director of the Boston Police Neighborhood Watch Unit, who organized the event.
Welcome to East Berlin, Massachusetts!
MacNeil said Boston has participated in the National Night Out campaign for 26 years, with smaller neighborhood events, but this is the third year a larger event has been held at the zoo.
“This really allows us to involve everybody,’’ she said....
Donna Haskins of Roxbury, who attended the event with some of her extended family:
“It’s something positive. Being reminded about the positives is a good thing.’’
Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea J. Cabral, who also stressed her efforts to overhaul the Criminal Offender Record Information system:
“As long as you have jails, there will be people in them.’’
Then let's get rid of the jails; too many people in them already.
We'll just execute the killers, perverts, and politicians, 'kay? -- and save some money doing it.
