Boston University and local police departments announced plans Wednesday to step up patrols after a BU research assistant was stabbed and robbed the night before in the latest and most violent in a series of eight alarming street attacks near the campus this academic year.
Robert A. Brown, the university’s president, said patrols had been significantly bolstered after robberies in the fall and earlier this winter. Suspects were arrested after some of those incidents.
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Staunch liberal that I am, there are times when even I am taken aback with the Boston Globe's apparent policy against mentioning the race of any of the suspects in a story like this one. You mean to tell me that none of the victims noticed the race of the perpetrators? I find that hard to fathom. And if the Globe just leaves that part out in some misguided politically-correct policy, well that actually does the public (and especially people living in the area) a disservice. I'm afraid it's a relevant issue.
OK, issue is the wrong word. It is a relevent part of the fact-pattern. Wise-up Globe.
This story doesn't mention anything about the apparent ethnicity of the alleged perpetrators, but other stories in the media have identified them as African-American.
I was mugged a few years ago and tried to resist. I fought my attacker to the ground — but he got away with my purse. I'd been Christmas shopping, so I had more than my usual amount of cash in my wallet. There were a lot of poeple on the street — this was around 7 pm, by no means the dark of the night — and many tried to help me. One got the license plate number of the getaway car, but it turned out the car had been stolen just a few minutes earlier. Someone else called the cops, who came very fast. The detective who helped me told me that never, ever, should I fight to keep possession of my stuff. Just a day or so earlier a woman had tried to fight and had been stabbed to death for her efforts. "Money and things can be replaced," he said, "but your life can't. The first rule is to survive." He was absolutely right. I recommend his advice.
Here's a chance for those NRA trigger-happy gun-nuts to step up and post armed guards around the area. Unless that would just make things worse. Where's Nugent when you really need him?
Nugent? Oh you must mean that History fellow.
Nope. Patrolling around with guns is NOT what responsible gun owners do. Idiots do that sort of thing.
Of course, this story does point out what gun owners always tell people:
When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.
Notice that we have not heard about this until 8 of these attacks have occured?
One other thing, I would not recommend that folks in the area rush out, get a gun and start carrying it. Without proper training, a very bad idea.
BTW, you are a cheap shot artist. Talk about people when they are not around all the time?
the fact they leave out the apparant most relevant fact of the criminals such as thier basic description tells you all you need to know of what they look like