Boston: A shooter's paradise

[MCgrease08]

It turns out that Boston, the largest city in a notoriously anti-gun state, is one of the best places to get away with shooting someone. Especially if you don't actually kill them.

More than 96 percent of gunmen involved in non-fatal shootings are never arrested in Boston. The cops know it—but will they do anything about it?

Boston Is a Shooters? Paradise - Boston Magazine

More proof that gun control doesn't work.

 

[printcraft]

statistically Boston’s finest likely won’t do much of anything to help.

You have to wonder how much of this is a result of the higher ups telling the cops to stop "harassing" the innocents......

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Boston: only city on Earth where I have been subject of an (attempted) mugging.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Wow...

Anybody know how that compares to, say, Indy?

 

[actaeon277]

Can't be.
No guns

 

[phylodog]

Wow...

Anybody know how that compares to, say, Indy?

They get arrested here they just don't spend any time in jail or run much risk of being prosecuted/punished.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

They get arrested here they just don't spend any time in jail or run much risk of being prosecuted/punished.

Oh yeah...that sucks too. At least they’re locked up for a few hours.

 

[drillsgt]

They get arrested here they just don't spend any time in jail or run much risk of being prosecuted/punished.

At least you've done your part, after that it's out of your hands.

 

[2A_Tom]

They get arrested here they just don't spend any time in jail or run much risk of being prosecuted/punished.

What a shame. Shameful. Prosecutors should be ashamed.

 

[Lex Concord]

They get arrested here they just don't spend any time in jail or run much risk of being prosecuted/punished.

Watching the news within the last couple of days ( I can't remember which station) they quoted 41% "solve" rate for Marion County homicides... I wonder how well "solve" translates to "conviction".

 

[phylodog]

Watching the news within the last couple of days ( I can't remember which station) they quoted 41% "solve" rate for Marion County homicides... I wonder how well "solve" translates to "conviction".

In all honesty it doesn't really matter. A conviction for murder doesn't mean much these days, there is no shortage of convicted murderers walking the streets of Indianapolis.

 

[Leadeye]

Machine politics, if you have a big unsolvable crime problem, the feds give you grants.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Machine politics, if you have a big unsolvable crime problem, the feds give you grants.

Probably avoids expensive law suits too.

 

[Thor]

These are all sounding like excellent reasons to always go armed everywhere...