Boston mayor outlines the plan to stop the outdoor drug market

Boston-as a measure has reached a maximum level of 7 years in crossing the city center, and the areas around the Common, the mayor of Boston, the top policeman and the prosecutor blame the drug use from Mass and CASS and intends to focus on the treatment, rather than on arrest, many drug users and drugs.

Mayor Michelle Wu, Boston police commissioner Michael Cox and Suffolk District lawyer, Kevin Hayden, stressed what they called an “evolution” of the city’s plan to address their outdoor drug market-which shed in the city center and other neighborhoods from and around Liturghiei was cleaned in the autumn of 2023.

While the plan – was held on Wednesday after – is a press conference that apparently sensitive to persistent public safety complaints in areas in the city center, such as Common and Downtown – includes more police applications, it will largely focus on obtaining drug users and dealers.

“At the end of the day, this problem is about sobriety,” Hayden said. “The incarceration is not the answer to help them get sober and, if we do not get them sober, then they return.

“If we do not approach the basic problem, then we do not solve the problem and will continue to commit any crime they committed, whether it is drug use, or drug to support the habit, whether it’s shopping, or plunders someone, whatever, we try to deal.”

Asked if the drug dealers will be followed by his office and incarcerated, Hayden said it is up to the situation.

He said that his office would seek to respond to “people who prey the vulnerable”, but aim to largely deviate drug users and people dealing with drugs to nourish their addiction.

“People who take over the vulnerable on our streets, who have drug addiction problems and have drugs on the streets, should be held accountable and, yes, should be incarcerated,” Hayden said. “But if the disorder of substance abuse is the basic problem, we must approach that.”

Hayden described the plan to approach the consumption of substances congregate as a “targeted and balanced approach in terms of responsibility and application, and treatment and deviation at the same time.”

Cox said that the Boston police department will “apply” violations that involve “outdoor drug use” and “things of this nature” that are against the law, but mentioned that each case and person is different.

People might have to do with health problems or have other things, he said.

“But the fact is that we make a conscious effort to try to apply, to discourage people who come there by feeding these people – and when I say feeding, I mean drugs and other means – not to be there and arrest them because they are the people we really look for.

“If we happen to catch someone who is definitely dependent,” the police commissioner added, “there is an aspect of diversion in this regard.”

The plan of the city “evolved” comes against the background of the increased concentration on the violence and use of drugs outdoors, which the police department previously assigned to the spread of the former meal camp and CASS, which was cleaned by an ordinance proposed by the mayor in November 2023.

Police statistics show that total crimes, including drug trafficking and sale, have reached the highest level in about seven years in the common area in the city/Boston center, with 995 reported offenses, compared to 958 in 2023, according to a Boston Globe report.

Last week, two teenagers were arrested for being assaulted and robbed a man in Macy’s, in the commercial district in the city center. Last summer, an almost fatal stab in the center of the city that crosses public safety problems in the area.

Mayor Wu, who also spoke in informing the press of the day, emphasized the intention of his administration to address the consumption of congregate substances as a means of addressing these problems in a memory he intends to submit to the Local Council next week.

“Despite the significant progress in the homes of natural persons, the reduction of violent crime, the decrease of the average mass in mass and CASS and keeping without boston, new congregations of consumers of outdoor substances, and the related activity appeared as the most pressing problem that affects the quality of life for the city, in the city, in the city, Roxbury, southern south.

“After a sustained period, without significant agglomeration from November 2023 to April 2024, the consumption of outdoor substances appeared as a daily challenge at the intersection of mass and CASS, the surrounding areas and in the areas of the city of Boston,” the memoirs are shown.

Until the colder weather at the end of 2024, the memo said that the city received an uptick in 311 calls for “needle taking over, human waste and other impacts on the quality of life and more people who engage and need recovery services”.

The strategy of the city 2025 is to end the consumption of substances and the related criminal activity in the Boston neighborhoods. This involves a “set of updated strategies” that are based on the existing intervention of the city, the coordinated response and the execution approach. It will be more of a police response in the “wider mass area and CASS and other congregate sites,” said the city’s memory.

While Wu and the police department have quoted the low -haired city of Boston last year, the Boston evidence is the “safest important city” in the country, Cox said it will not reject the public’s feeling that the city center is uncertain.

“I’m not going to say something is exaggerated,” Cox said. “If a person is afraid, that should approach.”

Wu, according to her schedule, will attend a public safety meeting on Thursday evening by the Association in the Boston Neighborohood Center.