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How are we doing?
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| 8.1 Balanced, Robust Strategies for Public Safety, Regional and Homeland Security |
8.1.1 Impact of terrorism on local public safety resources, Metro Boston |
In March 2006, Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced that the City would award 20 grants totaling $174,000 to civic groups in Boston to engage them in improving emergency preparedness at the neighborhood and family levels. |
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8.1.2 Collaboration for preventive strategies and emergency preparedness, Metro Boston |
In 2006, Boston received $11 million through the federal Transit Security Grant Program to strengthen security for its rail, bus and ferry lines, and received an additional $8.5 million between 2002 and 2006 to secure the city’s port area. The Boston Urban Area Security Initiative including Boston and adjacent cities also received approximately $65 million in federal homeland security funding between 2004 and 2006. |
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8.1.3 Trends in local public safety in Boston vs. Notheast, U.S. other large cities |
Between 2004 and 2006, violent crime increased by 8% in Boston, compared to approximately 4% nationally and approximately 1% in the Northeast region. |
8.2 Low Crime Rates in Boston
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8.2.1 Trends in reported citywide crime in Part One (Serious) Crime, Part Two (Quality of Life) Crimes and for Crimes in Public Housing, Boston |
Between 1993 and 2006, violent crime in the City of Boston declined by 31% and property crime decreased by 42%. Over the same period, “part one crime” decreased by 40% and quality-of-life crime decreased by 14%. |
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8.2.2 Trends in reported Part One Crime per 1000 population, Boston neighborhood
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Between 1997 and 2006, reported violent crime increased most significantly in Charlestown (96%), violent crime increased the most in Roxbury/Mission Hill (19%), and property crime increased only in Roxbury/Mission Hill (11%). |
| 8.3 Perception of Public Safety |
8.3.1 Resident public perception of safety and quality of life ranking, Boston neighborhood |
The Boston Police Department’s Citizen Survey asks residents to rate the quality of life in their neighborhood on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being “excellent.” In 2006, the city wide median was 7.03, approximately the same as in 2003 when it was 7.09. |
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8.3.2 Public perception of threats to community by type, Boston |
In 2006, respondents to the Boston Police Department’s Citizen Survey were most likely to identify “litter and trash lying around,” car brake-ins, drug sales, burglary and vandalism as being serious or somewhat serious problems. |
| 8.4 Strong Civic and Social Networks |
8.4.1 Residents who trust their neighbors, Boston neighborhood |
In 2006, 75% of the citywide respondents to the Boston Police Department’s Citizen Survey said that they felt they could rely on a neighbor for help. This is a small decrease from approximately 79% citywide in 2003. |
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8.4.2 Domestic violence, Boston neighborhood |
Reported incidents of domestic violence increased 11% between 2004 and 2006. However, the number of reported incidents remains 11% below the 10 year high of 1,707 in 1997. |
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8.4.3 Trends in reported hate crimes, Boston |
Hate crimes are decreasing. The total number of incidents investigated involving hate crimes in Boston decreased 6% from 180 in 2004 to 169 in 2006. This is considerably fewer incidents than the high of 343 in the late 1990s. |
| 8.5 Supportive Environment for Youth and Children |
8.5.1 Juvenile crime rates, Boston |
The number of teenagers living in Boston has increased dramatically to about 26,000, the city’s highest teen population in a decade. Between 1993 and 2006, the total number of juvenile (aged 16 and under) arrests in Boston dropped 14%. |
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8.5.2 After school program availability, Boston neighborhood |
In 2006, roughly half of the city’s 1,729 serious crimes involving youth, including aggravated assaults and burglaries, took place on days or at times when most community centers were closed. 40% of the shootings in 2005 occurred on Saturday and Sunday and one-third of the shootings happened between the hours of 9pm and mid-night and during the school year, 86% of shootings of victims 21 and younger occurred between 3pm and 3am. |
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8.5.3 Permanent expulsion rates by race, gender, income and English proficiency, Boston Public Schools vs. Massachusetts |
2006 expulsion rates in Boston Public Schools were more than 3 times the statewide rate. Likewise, male BPS student were expelled at a rate more than 3 times that of the state average and female students at a rate twice that of Massachusetts |
| 8.6 Partnerships for Violence Reduction |
8.6.1 Partnerships with law enforcement agencies by type, Boston neighborhood |
In 2005, there were 200 to 300 active community watch groups in Boston, compared with 1,100 at the peak of community policing efforts in the mid- to late-1990s. |
| 8.7 Police and Community Relations |
8.7.1 Respect and trust between residents and police officers, Boston |
In 2006, 76% of the residents surveyed rated Boston Police officers “excellent” or “good” at being fair and respectful. This is the most positive response the Department has received since the survey was initiated in 1997. |
| 8.8 Public Funding and Support |
8.8.1 Trends in federal, state and city funding for the Boston Police Department |
The City received $32.1 million in federal community policing grants in the three fiscal years prior to Sept. 11, 2001, compared with $12.6 million in the three years after the 2001 terrorist attacks. The Department received $2 million in federal funding in 2006—approximately 33% less than in 2005. According to the FBI, the Boston Police Department lost 3% of its force, or 68 officers, from 2002 to 2005. |
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