BOSTON- The South Boston Police Station C-6 held its monthly neighborhood Security Advisory Council on Monday and introduced the “Real Time Crime Center.”
On March 2nd, Mayor Thomas Menino and Police Commissioner Edward Davis explained the new technology the Boston Police will implement to increase the public safety of city residents. The $500,000 Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) is a new division of the Bureau of Intelligence and Analysis that combines police work and technology.
The RTCC is responsible for monitoring ongoing police incidents and events as well as providing relevant information and data in “real time” manner.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino stated, “the Real Time Crime Center and the reformatted BPDNews.com are two great examples of how the City of Boston continues to use innovative technology to make our city safer.”
The RTCC’s staff has access to crime and intelligence databases, communication and camera systems and a Shotspotter system. All of which are dedicated “to this task fulltime.”
“We need that,” exclaimed Richard Doherty, community service officer, “especially in the coming weeks.” He said that Saint Patrick day was the busiest day of the year for the district. Station C-6 officers said that they have seen the parade getting out of control; this is why Chief Evans is requiring more enforcement.
The second part of the meeting focused on the security of South Boston. « We had a very good month in terms of the Crime Rates in District Six, » said Captain Richard Evans. In terms of year to date compared to last year, for a variety of « Part 1 crimes, » including larcenies, burglaries, rape, auto theft, the most serious are violent and property crimes.
Most of their statistics are going down, according to their records. Domestic aggravated assaults decreased of 45 percent since February 2009, commercial burglaries decreased of 73 percent, residential burglaries minus 73 percent, larcenies minus 14 percent.
« We will strive to continue our crime rate decline at District Six, » said Evans, « even if South Boston remains the safest neighborhood of the city.”
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