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Police Commissioner Michael Cox praised the officers for their “restraint” and “professional behavior” in the face of several attacks, but criminal justice analysts and community leaders said the incidents also show the balancing act officers must strike.
Boston is 44 percent white and 23 percent black....
Two businesses are vying to gain the blessing of neighbors to locate in the former Citizens Bank building in Codman Square. A Domino’s Pizza franchisee last week appeared before the Codman Square Neighborhood Council (CSNC) to detail a plan to move his restaurant from Fields Corner to a portion of the bank building taking up about 1,500 square feet of the 5,000-square-foot
A weeklong workshop aimed at reducing gun violence in Boston concluded that most of these crimes were occurring among a small number of people in four neighborhoods, with Black men most impacted.
“We will not tolerate any neighborhood feeling like residents have to live in fear of violence or experience loss that ripples down generation after generation,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said.