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Long-standing complaints that children have found human feces, used condoms, needles and tampons in the Cambridge Common playground sparked the Cambridge City Council last night to look into a controversial policy that allows homeless people to leave their personal belongings in public parks...
...intertwined” with the problem of trash. Most of the items teachers and parents have complained about—feces, condoms, tampons, broken glass and even mattresses—are not considered personal belongings, Peterson said, so they are not covered by the city’s homeless policy. All of these items are considered trash and are thrown away when the playground is cleaned five days a week...
...night’s meeting, which was presented by Vice Mayor Marjorie C. Decker, requested that the City Manager “confer” with Peterson about these procedures and “report on the City’s policies and protocols for handling property of the homeless, including at the Cambridge Commons...
Majid Sayad, 29, of Cambridge, allegedly approached a homeless man and took his money at knifepoint at around 2 a.m. yesterday, CPD spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello said...
...homeless man, who Pasquarello would not identify, was not injured during the robbery...