Word: arsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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June 3, 11:43 p.m.--Police responded to a working fire in Quincy. Room 621, where a desk top was aflame. A student from Kirkland House helped put out the fire and saw a male suspect in the area Arson is suspected...
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...more than tripled in the past decade, largely because of the flourishing drug traffic. Other tax-free operations: gambling, numbers, prostitution. Some critics, who believe the drug profits may be much higher than the IRS says, charge that the IRS calculations ignore such lucrative activities as loan-sharking, arson, counterfeiting, fencing, pornography and trafficking in illegal aliens. One independent estimate of the untaxed profits in these areas: $25 billion...
GENTRIFICATION raises a myriad of further questions, including whether City Hall purposely cuts fire protection to areas eyed by property developers to hasten resident turnover--as was charged in New York by some arson-watchers after a similar wave in 1972 But in the meantime, while city officials debate what to do with all the vacant buildings still dotting the map, or how to beef up the arson squad to catch the culprits, they might do well to think a little more thoroughly about the fate of Boston's changing neighborhoods, and how to enable poorer long-term residents...
Civic boosters take pride in a healthy real estate market; it's great for Boston's image as "the livable city"--Mayor White's phrase. But if the cost of livability includes millions of dollars in fire damage and the title of America's arson capital--and the social pressures that title implies--Bostonians had better ask themselves if they can really afford...