That is a picture of the third search result from a Google search of the term "gang violence hotline boston police department."
From personal experience, I can say that the homeless shelters that are owned and operated by the Boston Public Health Commission are the dirtiest, most dangerous places where I have ever been in my life, without exception. I am not surprised that children who are supervised by the government are chronic victims of abuse and homicide.
Hopefully, that agency is in the process of making changes, but what I have heard from the women who have had to stay at the Woods Mullen shelter is that it's as filthy and poorly managed as ever.
Many homeless people have had their children taken by the government. The parents go to the dehumanizing shelters, cycling from shelter to jail to rehab to psych units to halfway houses to apartments to evictions to shelters, and the children go to one abusive foster care situation after another, until they die, end up in jail or mental hospitals, have their own children, and keep the shelters populated year after year.
To say that the system is broken is a non sequitur; there is no system, there are merely wasted lives.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, August 20, 2015 @ 5:43 p.m.
