Police seek help in finding Esplanade assault suspect
Police release image of man sought in Esplanade attack
Related: Boston Police Scouring Esplanade
"Globe data visualization reporter Gabriel Florit analyzed more than
four years of reports on domestic violence between intimate partners in
Boston, up to April 2014. That is when the police department changed the
way it reports these incidents, providing less detail on this world of
cruelty and terror.
Soon, the police reports will be made less accessible statewide, under new domestic violence prevention legislation
that shields them from public view unless a case goes to court. It is a
step designed to protect victims who may be afraid to come forward if
their identities become public. But that potential good comes at too
high a price: The new law also shields abusers from scrutiny....
No offense, but I'll keep that in mind when the next drone strike hits.
The reports are a critical record of the evil enacted in homes across the city. Laid end to end, they reveal the massive scale of the problem. And not just its vastness, but its pervasiveness. The potential for violence saturates every minute of a victim’s day. Look at the list of weapons, the cat and the lamp alongside the machete and the crowbar. (Witness, too, last week’s horrific case in Middleborough, where a mixed martial arts fighter allegedly encouraged a bull terrier to attack his beaten wife).
I guess I won't have to cover that unread article now.
You can imagine the moments that exploded, at breakfasts and dinners, in kitchens and living rooms. You can see inside the homes where abusers lurk every day, reaching for whatever object is nearby to impose their will.
Others create armies to do that very thing, bringing suffering and often rape to women.
We know all too well where many of those everydays end — Jared Remy....
And on a larger scale, Gaza and wherever US drone strikes land.
Who was the DA?
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Related: Three to be questioned in woman’s death
I'm not trying to minimize the problem; I just don't like my divisive and dividing, obfuscating and omitting, lying and distorting, agenda-pushing, war-promoting, propaganda pre$$ and ma$$ media. Sorry. Anyone caring to investigate here can see we were told crime is down and Boston is safe.
You wave women and children at me now I first think Gaza and Muslims under the boot of surveillance drones. Sorry.
Also see:
Not So Splendid
Setting Up on the Esplanade
Time to break it down and go home.
