South Finish
Re: “Shifting out of the South Finish, livid residents fed up with drug use and crime,” Oct. 26 ). As a retired Boston Police Officer, I famous with irony {that a} South Finish resident had complained that “The town has not maintained constant regulation and order…that is no place to lift a household.” Over time, as many progressive liberals moved to the South Finish, devoted BPD Officers tried to implement “high quality of life” crimes, together with public drug and alcohol use, vagrancy, trespassing and the rising variety of mentally in poor health, homeless folks infiltrating the South Finish. For his or her efforts, these officers had been usually derided as “racist” and accused of being “heavy-handed, jack-booted thugs” by the progressive South Finish residents. Consequently and in response, the police pulled again and stopped implementing these “minor felony offenses.” Therefore, we now have a South Finish the place residents complain in regards to the lack of “regulation and order.”
The South Finish of immediately is a textbook instance of Professor James Q. Wilson’s “Damaged Home windows” policing technique, in style within the 80’s and 90’s however whose knowledge was forgotten because the years glided by. So, pardon me if I snicker as I hear our previously compassionate progressives bemoan the dearth of “regulation and order” and contemplate shifting out as the one various. “You get what you pay for, and what goes round, comes round” was a preferred police saying again within the day. True then, true now. You’ll be able to again the blue or help the thugs and criminals.
Compassion is great, nevertheless it has prices and penalties.
James W. Carnell
Quincy
Shutdown
You already know they’re getting determined after they say the quiet reality out loud, but that is the place we’re in 2025.
Democrats cross the Reasonably priced Care Act in 2010 with out a single Republican supporting it. The premiums and deductibles imbedded within the laws escalate to the purpose the place the scheme is now not efficient or inexpensive. Democrats insist on further funding to maintain the scheme intact.
They refuse to help a clear persevering with decision with out the funding. Republicans reply with “let’s fund the federal government first then we’ll attempt to handle this rising fiscal time bomb.”
Democrats refuse and blame everybody else for this debacle, together with the president. Ed Markey tries to disgrace the president over his rebuild of the White Home whereas Congress shirks its accountability. Governor Healey says the president is forcing low-income Individuals to starve.
After which Home Whip Katherine Clark drops the reality bomb, saying there shall be “households which might be going to endure” due to the shutdown, and “it is among the few leverage instances now we have.”
The shutdown is nice for Dems politically – they don’t give a rattling in regards to the shutoff of presidency advantages – they’ll spin it with their media companions to realize favor with the general public. They’ll merely do what they all the time do – blame Republicans for their very own errors. They’ll exploit this disaster to make sure their return to energy. And if that doesn’t work, they’ll simply create extra congressional districts till it does.
Sean F. Flaherty
Boston
