Neighborhood location has a stark effect on whether a murder leads to an arrest, according to a Boston Herald review. Here's a look at some of the city's bloodiest streets.
Boston is small so u cant compare it to a chicago or new york... growing up there as a minority u know about how segregated the city is.. the majority of the city is safe but dont at all sleep on the hoods in boston.. roxbury,dorchester, mattapan, lynn etc.. if u looking for a problem in those areas u will definitely find one
@Jacklyn Demon you’re absolutely crazy if you think actual first generation Irish people participate in that, I live in Ireland so I can speak for the Irish people, you live in America so you speak for Americans, painting “Irish” people with the same brush, you pleb
Born and raised in Roxbury right near H block. moms side was from Humboldt and dads side was from Academy homes projects. I saw my fair share of shootings, Violence and death. Thank God i made it out alive and became a successful business owner. I still have hundreds of family members in Boston.
19 murders is in-accurate. Especially for Blue Hill........summer 2005 alone there was 25 in that area alone. How I know....I lost 2 of my homeboys that summer....1 of them was killed on Blue Hill Ave. Now Roxbury/Dorchester/Mattapan......which are small boroughs in the city are not as bad as Chi-Town...............but it aint Disneyland either.
My father is a police officer that works in dorchester, I remember he showed me some photos on his work phone, pretty nasty stuff, shootings, stabbings, fights, etc.
People dont take into consideration that murders that happen one or two blocks down a side street connected to blue hill ave dont count as a blue hill ave murder. Everyone knows if those counted as blue hill ave murders (which everyone seems to be doing in their mind) then the numbers would be well into the hundreds. BPD puts out a murder map every year. And these are "documented murders," not shootings or stabbings where people survived, or the incidents would be way higher. They always happen in the same general vicinities. When you do the math for the murder rate in those areas (yearly murders per every 100,000 residents) it rivals anywhere else with a high murder rate in the country. Boston had a high murder rate well before hip hop made it cool. But when you do the math for Boston as a whole, it's on the safer side. (Still a higher murder rate than NYC as a whole though.) Inside official Boston city limits, there is only a population of 600 something thousand people. The population of the "murder zone" is about 150 thousand. Although that area has been getting gentrified for a long time and people are moving to other, smaller cities in Massachusetts, like Brockton. But the gentrification is not happening all over the hood in boston. It's working it's way in from the neighboring, nicer areas, while other smaller cities in mass are getting worse. People are just moving from one area to another, like what's happening everywhere else in this country. All big cities are being gentrified and smaller cities are getting worse. Keep in mind, in 1990, there were 151 murders in Boston. Nowadays there are usually between 50 and 75.
It's not that bad stop it. And Boston homicide rate is super low. Boston has 17 homicides so far out of over 600,000 residents. That's pretty damn good.
I grew up on these streets my whole life and spent most of my life outside lol it's not as bad as they make it to seem. Edit: let me not say it's not bad. It probably is but from my experience and other people in the neighborhood i would chill with, you don't really experience it the way they portray it. Mostly just crack heads fighting or disturbances around the block. Just my personal experience. Second edit: i actually forgot about the bullet that almost hit my window 💁someone followed my neighbor home and shot him as he got out his car. Police were there all night/morning. Other bullet somehow hit the side of my neighbors house right in front of my window
Boston such as Dorchester Mattapan in Roxbury is only bad if you're beefing with different hoods with in the city such as Jurassic Park JP Columbia Point certain territories in Boston don't get along because of the drug trade people got moved out of their housing complex and was forced to go into their enemies territory which caused bloodshed because people are trying to hustle on other people's turf... yes Boston doesn't want Outsiders coming into this city because it poses a threat but the real problem is the different hoods with in Boston shooting each other over drugs sales.... nobody safe in the hood if you're not from there it is what it is no matter what state you're in it Shady to be there if you're not from there it's an area of crime and people trying to stay alive you think they want somebody they don't know walking down the block that they supposedly have to trust no way if everybody just stays in their Lane everybody will be alright unfortunately the murder rate is high and it needs to stop if they want to kill people go over to Afghanistan other than that I'm a Boston boy telling u how it is
JP, Hyde Park, South End and half of Dorchester is pretty safe nowadays.. The only places that are fairly active is Mattapan and "most" of Roxbury, because the Mission Hill area is no longer considered dangerous.
I lived JP in the 1980s and went to high school at Boston Tech. We didn’t get a bus so we had to take the T from Forest Hills to Dudley every morning, then a bus to the high school which one side was on Humboldt, the other side Warren. To say safety was questionable back then is an understatement. I’ve driven through the neighborhood lately and maybe I’m wrong but it feels safer than it was back then and definitely has been gentrified to some degree. As it turns out, Tech class of ‘87 was the last class to graduate out of that building which is now the home of Latin Academy.
Jamaica P is safe as hell nowadays.. I was just looking at violent crime rates and Cambridge actually has a neighborhood with a higher violent crime rate than JP.
Grew up right there. Boston in general was different back then. There may still be gang activity on Humboldt but doesn't have that crack era dangerous, anything goes vibe. There aren't anymore empty lots. I tell recent transplants that there used to be packs of stray dogs in Boston and they can't believe it
@@smithblack100 Hell, yeah!!! Stray dogs everywhere!!! I remember that bro.. Every now and then you would walk around a corner and see a few kids standing on top of a car, and you immediately knew what that meant.
At the end of 2023 DC had 274 homicides, Baltimore had 263, Detroit had 252 and Boston had 37. 2 of which were from the year prior and had only been ruled homicides after 2022 ended. All of these cities are similar in size and population. I get that one person dying is too much but Boston’s safe af and that’s okay.
I used to take the trolley to Mattapan years ago. I don't anymore. It was a thrill to see how the other half lived. Ironically now living in New Bedford I am part of that other half.
Where I lived in East Boston I've personally seen 4 people stabbed to death and a dead Prostitute in a dumpster. It's one of the reasons I moved my family and I to New Hampshire. My wife was living in South Boston and that was no better
In 1999 they wiped out a good percentage of them WPD dudes. And they were really young. Most of them not even 20. Not sure why but they had problems with a lotta different hoods and they was losing that battle. I lived on Homestead around the corner. I think the murder rate was higher then. Overall Boston is good place to live. It ain’t cheap though.
All the information here is inaccurate, Boston has 25 murders in a night. Talking about 19 murders, that’s disrespectful making things seem alright when they clearly aren’t. I’ve lived in Boston for 14 years there has been way more murders than 19.
Boston police never do their job, specifically green st police department which is for Jamaica Plain. I used to leave in center st by stop and shop, I was a cable guy coming from work a 11pm, one night in 2010 I was waiting for a parkig spot, doing double parking" for any vehicle to get out, it's the only way and that's how it works. While waiting two guys tried to open my truck doors one on each side at the same time, luckily my doors were lock was on and my truck was on, so I put my truck on gear and did a burn out, almost run over the guy on my left side. Then I went straight to the green police department and ask them if they can do something about it, like send a patrol to identify this two individuals, the officer on desk told me if nothing happened nothing they can do!" Also told me what I was doing around there at that time, I told him I leave in the area then he told me to move out of my neighborhood! Well I did after I finally got robbed by 4 black guys and one latino with a 38 in my head around 11pm, I move out of state. Boston police only shows up on time on good neibohoods and after everything already happens. Also guns have nothing to do with violence, knife and machete can also kill! Like Junior case in NY. Our services department need to work harder! Read my top comment please. That neighborhood is full of criminals and jamica plain police do nothing but give traffic tickets to innocents drivers for every little stupid traffic law.
Boston has nothing compared to other cities and as a Bostonian that has friends and family I'm glad it's not because that's not cool. with that being said Boston can and should do better. killing for NO reason at all smh
Lol 19 murders in a decade... thats a couple days in chicago.. those stats gotta be off tho, i lived in JP for some years and i lost at least 5 friends from that area... and that was all within 4-5 years
Man, let me tell you bout my hood. First we have shoot outs in the mornings, then i saw my first 48 case at 5 years old. Grandma held at gun point, man shot in the head. Seen family stabbed 9 timez , welcome to my hood....South end, lower Roxbury 02118. Need i say more!!!??
I just lived in blue hill ave and the worst mom part is how bad it smelled and the mice in the houses plus the rats I outside. If you aren’t invovled with gangs, you’re not gona get shot nobody ever bother me
To the people talking shit about Boston. Not one of y'all mfs won't come to Roxbury, Mattapan, Dorchester, Jp, hell even..Southie; and talk that shit. Don't get it tiwsted, see y'all (outsiders) think it's all about Red Sox out this mf. But it ain't! Just because we don't be in the spotlight like Chi-Town, LA, Jeresy, and etc. Don't mean we're soft. FOH with that bullshit!!-Humboldt Ave (aka 44 Ave), Roxbury all day!!!
frank nitty it’s not actually 19. I used to live in mattapan and in one summer a couple years ago there were 25 murders. You would hear gunshots boomin on the weekends
For all you niggas like oh that ain’t bad it’s on that street alone not as a whole I don’t know about the murrders in 2014 but 2017 76 murrders also gotta realize that this is happening in like 1/4 of Boston and Boston I not that big so it’s a lot for such a small area
Blue Hill ave isn't even a hood. It's the main strip that runs thru tha hood. In da bean u be either on the side streets or projects. We bang our hoods or projects. We have bloods crips Gd' s and Latin kings to. It's every hood 4 themselves. Rep your good. Side Streets all day. Boston Strong! Hancock Uptown!!!
Reggie Weaks Boston Strong, Dorchestah Fah Life, 617 All Day, Amor De Rey, Black N Gold Will Never Fold, Shout out to Humbolt Ave, Heath Street, Campanella Park, All my niggas We bang for our hoods. All for nothing, WE BANG FOR OUR CITY
Young Rain -- yup sounds like the reason why that area of Boston is shit . Your parents need to own up and do the job that comes with having kids . So fucking big and tough running around with guns and weapons. Scared to take an ass kicking . Start acting like men and not little boys throwing rocks .
It dont matter what city is worst in comparison through stats. You wont know til you live there, besides Boston aint the only city in Mass that turn up
How about you move out of Roxbury lady? You were in the thick of things living there and in 2022 it’s still the same! Blue Hill Ave, Mattapan, Roxbury and many other parts of Dot. are all still dangerous places to live!
Man Detroit Baltimore Chicago New Orleans St Louis and D.C. and Houston or Cleveland and Miami and L.A and Memphis, Birmingham it's a lot of cities worst then this. This city will be a Suburban in these places. Lol new englanders
Ok Boston gets it in but the Chi Det LA probably have 19 murders a month. I'm born and raised in the Bean. CHARLESTOWN and lived all over Rox Dot the Pan JP and southend. Body Bag Boston
