Public Safety
Dr. J. Keith Motley
If advocates are ultimately successful in bringing the 2024 Olympic Games to Boston, Dorchester’s own Columbia Point neighborhood would likely play a major role in the event, with the former Bayside Expo Center site —owned by UMass... Read more
Boston’s bid to secure the 2024 summer Olympic games won the US committee’s nod last Thursday— a significant victory for proponents of the idea, most notably Mayor Martin Walsh, who has become the most prominent public face of the effort. Walsh trumpeted... Read more
Details of who would pay for the facilities and the public infrastructure that would be needed for Boston to host the 2024 Olympic Games remain murky this week. Boston 2024 organizers say they will reveal more about their larger plans next Wednesday... Read more
For the second time in the last week, Boston Police successfully subdued an "aggressive" knife-wielding man on Dorchester's C-11 police district on Monday morning using "less-than-lethal" tactics.
Boston Police were called to Lithgow Street on Monday... Read more
A gunman held up a Morrissey Boulevard convenience store last Thursday and made good his escape— although his exit was not the smoothest in the annals of Boston crime.
A police report of the Jan. 8 incident says that an unknown man entered the 7/11 store... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports officers used a "less lethal" shotgun Saturday night to capture a man inside an apartment at 383 Geneva Ave. who was armed with a knife and who had turned on all the gas on the stove.
"Officers observed that the... Read more
More than 300 people gathered in Adams Corner last week in a rally held to begin the new year with a show of support for local police officers. The Citizens on Patrol group, along with Pope's Hill and Cedar Grove neighborhood associations, organized the... Read more
Mayor Walsh fields questions at Mattapan meeting on Tuesday night: Photo by Lauren Dezenski
Mayor Martin Walsh stayed around at the Mildred Avenue Community Center Tuesday night to answer community members’ questions over a proposal to site treatment... Read more
A public meeting set for Thursday night (Jan. 8) at St. Peter’s Teen Center will review the city of Boston’s current system for reviewing civilian complaints against police officers. The meeting will feature comments from Eugene O’Flaherty, the city’s... Read more
A 23 year-old Dorchester man died from influenza on Jan. 4, the Reporter has learned. The death is the first fatality of the season in Boston caused by the disease, according to Dr. Anita Barry, the director of the city's Infectious Disease Bureau. Dr.... Read more
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