Crime and Punishment

Truly Jörg’s in Kenmore Square was held up today, according to Fox 25 News. Two weeks ago some scum held up the Cold Stone Creamery a couple of blocks south of here. And about two weekends ago D-4 ignored an hour-long disturbance incident outside a residence. Can somebody please put some police in the community [...]

The prosecution puts an end to the persecution: The eyewitness identification procedures were faulty and unreliable. No DNA confirms the accuser’s story. No other witness confirms her story. Other evidence contradicts her story. She contradicts herself.

Here’s a widely held notion that Bostonians should free themselves from: Boston still has one of the lowest crime and murder rates of major cities in the U.S. Really now? City Population Murder rate Boston 593,000 12.3   Austin 693,019 3.7 Dallas 1,230,303 16.8 El Paso 601,839 2.3 Fort Worth 613,261 9.8 Houston 2,045,732 16.3 [...]

Seriously.

Brian McGrory, Boston Globe metro columnist, somewhat belatedly chimes in on Boston’s decision to spend $1.5 million on the hi-tech sound-surveillance system known as ShotSpotter. Mr. McGrory finds it entirely resonable for the cash-strapped Hub of the Universe to spend the money on a system that pretty much tells residents that they can’t be trusted. [...]

This post keeps track of the total number of murders and homicides in Boston 2007. Final tally: 66. 2007 homicide rate for Boston: 11.2 murders per 100,000 residents. The list below is not exhaustive but does mention most of the homicides in Boston in 2007: January 1: 14 year old boy shot in Dorchester. January [...]

I remember reading about Chicago Bears player Ricky Manning Jr. attacking a patron of Middle Eastern descent at a Denny’s in Los Angeles last year. What I didn’t know until I read conservative journalist Steve Sailer’s blog is that the victim of the attack is a Swedish citizen of Iranian descent. NBC reported at the [...]

Charley on the MTA at BlueMassGroup is beating his chest over a new study from Harvard School of Public Health that may suggest that there may be a link between gun ownership and homicide rates. Writes Charley: Turns out states with more guns at home have, like, more homicides. Who woulda thunk it? And then [...]

I apologize left and right and high and low for spreading confusion regarding the number of murders in Boston 2005, 2006 and 2007. Let’s start off with 2005: The FBI Uniform Crime Statistics claim 73 murders were committed in Boston in 2005. That’s also the number that the Boston Police Department uses. Reporters at the [...]

The Boston Police department released preliminary crime stats for 2006 that has the number of murders in Boston at 75 in 2006 for a homicide rate of roughly 12.5, assuming a population just shy of 600,000. There were 73 homicides in Boston in 2005. Note: This post originally claimed there were 75 murders in Boston [...]