Public Safety
Boston police officers trying to stop a deranged man with a pellet gun who'd stolen a police cruiser should have called in a mental-health professional rather than shooting him dead, his widow argues in a lawsuit filed last week.
Marquis Barker, 37, was... Read more
Ed Davis, the commissioner of the Boston Police Department, said last Friday that his command staff will investigate how the body of a 19-year-old murder victim was left undiscovered in a Mascot Street driveway for more than two days following a shooting... Read more
More than 60 Boston officials, victims advocates and family members touched by street crime met at Boston City Hall to discuss resources available for families struggling in the wake of violent crime.
City councillor Charles Yancey and Councillor At-... Read more
The Boston Police Department held the first session of a new Citizens Police Academy for Area B-3 residents on Monday evening at the BPD’s training facility in Hyde Park. For the next three weeks, the “cadets” will be bussed around the police academy and... Read more
ATF Chief: Isaura Mendes, mother of two murdered sons, reaches out to Guy Thomas, head of Boston’s ATF office, at Sunday afternoon’s meeting at St. Peter’s Teen Center. Photo by Stephen Kurkjian
The accounts of loss and grief that violent death has... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a woman exiting the Dunkin' Donuts in Edward Everett Square around 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday was attacked by the companion of a woman who had just asked her for money.
Police say the woman refused to give the panhandler $2... Read more
A South Boston man is in police custody today after he allegedly ransacked the sacristy at St. Brendan's Church and was also caught trying to break into the parish rectory on Sunday morning. Boston Police are investigating whether the suspect, 44 year-... Read more
Mascot Street death investigation: The body of 19 year-old Nervin Charlot was found in this driveway at 63 Mascot St. He had apparently been shot two days before in an incident that also fatally wounded 17 year-old Emmanuel Louissaint. Photo by Pat... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a man was found with multiple gunshot wounds around 12:30 a.m. on Thursday at 22 Fessenden St.
The man, 35, was rushed to Boston Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Dorchester and Mattapan murders over the... Read more
Minimum health, cleanliness, and sanitation standards would be established for the city’s nail salons under new rules the Boston Public Health Commission is considering.
The proposed rules come after a study found that nail salon workers were feeling... Read more
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