"Truth, justice, and Boston Dawna’s way; An outlandish but celebrated crime stopper is bringing her act home" by Billy Baker, Globe Staff / December 12, 2010
She became a legend in this famously eccentric beachfront community of Los Angeles, where everyone seems to be permanently tan or permanently stoned....
How do you like the elitist East Coast insult with your breakfast, Californians?
Her enemies, and there are many, say she was an out-of-control vigilante....
What she did was go out at night, alone on her bicycle, with a police scanner, and look for trouble....
The Los Angeles Police Department credits the 59-year-old with catching hundreds of miscreants, from public drunks to public enemies, and threw her a huge going-away party when she left town.
That’s right. Boston Dawna has left Venice. She got fed up with the city bureaucracy and the West Coast mentality....
Boston Dawna is back in Boston.
A NEW DAY a DAWNING, huh?
And she says she’s going to pick up her act in Boston for the same reason she did it back in LA — because she can’t help herself.
Boston Dawna is back in Boston.
A NEW DAY a DAWNING, huh?
And she says she’s going to pick up her act in Boston for the same reason she did it back in LA — because she can’t help herself.
“Some people drink and do drugs. I chase criminals,’’ she said as she walked around Boston recently, chain-smoking and getting reacquainted with the city (she was born in Hull and grew up in Brookline). “There’s no greater high than catching a crook.’’
I think an ADDICTION to ANYTHING is BAD, sorry.
Boston Dawna gets involved. It’s that simple, she says. If she sees something, she says something.
And if NO ONE LISTENS?
I have been SEEING and SAYING THINGS for the LAST FOUR YEARS on these BLOGS, and.... ??? Globe?
If you’re up to funny business, she makes it her business.....
So when does she walk up to Beacon Hill and crash through the doors?
On a recent Saturday night in Boston, Dawna agreed to take a Globe reporter for a walk around downtown....
This is what Globe investigative reporting has become.
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You know, anyone can stand on a street corner, mall, or the supermarket, when they are not watching NECN and drinking coffee in the newsroom.
Yeah, I know, they did a whole focus on the probation department and the health care.... and still nothing has really changed.
