"Hub police hope sweep keeps streets safer this weekend; More than a dozen believed prone to violence arrested" by Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | July 3, 2010
Hoping to prevent a bloody Fourth of July weekend, a team of law enforcement officers has combed Boston’s toughest neighborhoods and arrested more than a dozen people who are so-called impact players and pose a potential to commit violence, police said.
You mean they DIDN'T DO ANYTHING YET?
I mean, EVERYONE is a "potential" threat, right?
Sig Heil, Bay State!
The sweep, called Operation Boomerang, is an often-used law enforcement strategy to get known offenders off city streets, but....
The city is nowhere near the record 152 homicides of 1990, but the recent spike in violence has law enforcement working to identify known players before any violence occurs. The city has had 30 homicides this year, compared with 24 at the same time last year....
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Better do the other side:
"Police, officials canvass troubled street; Search for guns, talk to residents rattled by violence" by Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent | July 8, 2010
The bullets that sprayed across Hendry Street in Dorchester on Sunday night struck two innocent women, but also found two of their intended targets, who are gang members, Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said yesterday.
“The men were targeted; we would term them impact players,’’ Davis said yesterday to television cameras, which followed building inspectors and a police dog as they searched yards and a few homes during a “walk-along’’ by law enforcement and city officials on Hendry Street.
I'm glad I live about as far away from you f***s as possible.
Have your Berlin, 'er, Boston, sig heil!
“Make no mistake, the individuals that were targeted the other night would have been shot no matter what street they were on,’’ Davis said. “There’s an ongoing back and forth between two gangs that caused that shooting.’’
One of the men Davis singled out as a target from Sunday stood on a corner a block away. He held an ice pack, nursing the gunshot wound to his buttocks.
“I ain’t never been a target,’’ said the 32-year-old Brockton man, an auto technician, who asked not to be named. Police “don’t know what’s going on,’’ he said.
City officials knocked on doors and spoke with residents along the dead-end street.
“We’re introducing ourselves,’’ Davis said, “and we’re making it clear to people we’re here to help and want to deal with any problems they want to bring up.’’
Henrique Fernandes, 41, appreciated the visit. In 2008, he bought a red, two-family house in foreclosure for half what it had been sold for two years earlier. He said he asked Davis to provide more police presence during summers.
Davis said a police cruiser has been parked on the street since Sunday’s violence and will remain there all week.
But Pamela Drayton, who owns 18 Hendry St., where bullets flew outside on Sunday, was not impressed with the police and media swarming her street....
Evelyn Friedman, the city’s neighborhood development director, said she already knew many of the residents after her recent work on the street. The city purchased four foreclosed houses on Hendry Street in 2008 and sold them to a development company that renovated them. Three new owners are living in the renovated three-deckers, which have new siding and shiny wood doors, and the sale of the fourth house is near, Friedman said....
Yeah, what does that have to do with the shooting?
The whole block is a big success, huh?
On the corner of Hendry and Coleman streets, a group of young residents watched the cluster of police and media from a distance.
“It’s a show for the cameras,’’ one said, refusing to give his name. “It makes it look like they’re doing something when they’re really not.’’
The conflicting stances broiled on the narrow street yesterday. Police said the K-9 unit was searching for guns and drugs between houses, and the men on the corner cried foul.
The people “who did the shooting don’t live here,’’ one said. “Why are they searching us? Nobody who lives here shoots anybody who lives here. It’s silliness.’’
That is an EXCELLENT WORD to describe Amerika's MSM coverage of anything these days!
