Many of the people in the "lock-down" area microwaved popcorn and sat on their couches watching the TV as thousands of law enforcement and para-military types streamed through their neighborhoods with police cruisers a-flashing with sirens blaring.
You would think that the populace would be upset about being told to "shelter in place" while some homicidal muslim was apparently running through their neighborhood. But no, they docilely sat on their couches as they did about three months ago when the governor once again told everybody to "shelter in place" as a snowstorm moved through our region. That was also on a Friday. So the typical reaction of citizens here was "another 3-day weekend...yayyy!"
The only good part of Friday was how it took only 30 minutes for a regular citizen to find the culprit once they were told they were free to move about once again.
30,000 cops and a hundred times more police cruisers than were used in the Blues Brothers movie and all for naught. Some dude in a flannel shirt wanders into his backyard to check on his boat and finds the kid just like that.
If people hadn’t been told to stay inside, the punk would have been found many hours earlier and Boston wouldn’t have lost however many millions in productive work and the taxpayers would have save a day of excess spending on all the extra security. It may be hindsight but that’s what it came down to.