‘Things are out of control’: Outreach workers pulling out of Mass & Cass due to safety concerns (Boston)

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said the city’s community partners are pulling outreach workers from Mass & Cass, an area of the city also knowns as methadone mile, amid growing concerns for public safety.

Wu said the conditions around the intersection of Mass. Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard have gotten so dangerous with the increase of drug trafficking, human trafficking, and violence that some outreach organizations are pulling their teams off the streets.

“Even the outreach workers who have been there day after day are not feeling comfortable.. not feeling like they can physically safely be there anymore,” said Wu.

In recent months, police officers and others have been attacked in the area including a story we reported on just last month after a well-known Police Sergeant was pepper sprayed in an unprovoked attack. City data shows Boston EMS responses to the area have doubled from a year ago.

City Council President Ed Flynn is also addressing recent violence toward police officers and first responders.

“Boston police officers have experienced an increased level of physical and verbal assaults as they respond to emergency calls and patrol our neighborhoods,” said Flynn. “This violence against police and first responders is unacceptable, and needs to be condemned.”

Behind the Fenway there used to be some awesome disco clubs!
This area oncè upon a time was my favorite hangout area in Boston. There was a greek restaurant serving some really good food. Lucifees, a club, was a venue for older groups to play like The Platters. You could listen from the street which was better because you couldn’t dance inside the venue.

Boston is an old city. So màny of the buildings were of European design and beautiful in their own way. Buþ they needed care to preserve them.

There was so much going on there and it was a really fun place to visit. It would take a page or more to list all the excellent amenities. A few include the swan boats, historical North church, Museum of Science, aquarium, and more. You could find these little hole in the wall restaurants with the most amazing food at amazing low prices..scratch made, not out of a box...

And in Boston you are at a hub that could take you to so many other places like Plymouth Plantation which was built the old fashioned way such as big logs on a x type scaffold, using giant two man saws to cut planks down the length of it to build cabins such as the pioneers would have made, and they do this in clothing of that time period..the 1600’s.

Some of the hospitals were the best in the world. Some even had tunnels under ground leading from one place to another part of that hospital, and they weren’t short tunnels either!

As a child, I watched the Prudential building being built. At the time, it was the tallest building in the city. Now, I don’t recognize the skyline.

Boston was my favoŕite city in America. So to learn that it’s gone to seed is heartbreaking.

The Revolutionary war history is absolutely everywhere. Kindda the beginning of our nation. Maybe it’s showing us the ending, too.

Be very areful of being judgemental of these street people. It can, and will happen to many, here on these boards. Harder times are coming with current laws, inflation, and disappearing jobs. Every person alive being connected to a computertracking your every life decision is not a good thing. It makes a criminal out of nearly everyone for even simple things.

I don’t like liberal politics, and that’s part of what’s killing cities across America.

I once heard that criticism of people is the devil’s substitute for intercessory prayer.

Don’t point a finger at the people. PRAY for them. And pray regarding the leadership in control of our land, from the bottom up. That doesn’t mean wisshing good things on bad leaders. It means a change of heart and the ability to stand and makè wisse decisions, or wven flushhing them from the realms of power. They have forgotten who they answer to..the one above them all.

You must strengthen you trust in that God and repent. If not, then you will taste and see what you judge.

These people once trusted government. Now they know something most can’t fathom.

Poor Boston.

Understood and to be fair, my description wasn’t underpinned with condemnation. There but by the grace of God go I, and through my days as an Assistant Scoutmaster I have worked with people to address homelessness. As you note, it’s not simply laziness and folks happily on the dole.

I spent some time in Boston. I also worked in Manhattan and grew up near Philadelphia. Boston is a mixture of the best of NYC and Philadelphia. It is STILL a decent town though the current and former Mayors are doing everything they can to wreck it, erm, make it more statist. The Museum of Fine Arts is one of THE premier museums, and as our copied colleagues know my favorite piece of art is housed there.

The situation in that bad part of Boston isn’t unlike other towns’ bad parts. The real question, is will it fan out up Mass Ave to, say, Back Bay or Fenway. My guess is no, because all the shiny happy people live there, and I truly believe statist politicians hate minorities; they’ll do EVERYTHING to keep out the “Undesirables.”

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