Exactly what I was gonna say. Come up here, find an apartment and go to community college. Ace your classes and you’ll probably get a scholarship to umass Boston or even BU. Fisher is an okay school, but without a full scholarship it doesn’t make much sense in your situation.

You can get a gun at Best Buy?

I haven’t shot a firearm in years, so it’s hardly a hobby. My guns have dust on them. Stop being a sarcastic child and talk like an adult. The prevalence of guns from 2023 is no different than in 1983. Society is broken.

Sounds like you’re propagating some stereotypes, but I’m not gonna go down that path. Sure the police can see a stolen car easier. But owners usually don’t know their car is stolen until hours after. Plenty of damage can be done before the police know to look twice at a car. So try again.

I don’t have kids so that argument is invalid. What if your kid takes your keys and runs someone over? What if he took your keys instead of your gun? Should another parent have their car taken away for your it responsibility and your kids actions? You can’t blame other people for someone else’s actions. That’s not how it works. Maybe some people aren’t good parents and that’s the deeper problem.

Well I think we agree on that, brother. Respect for life and each other in this world is a lost concept on kids these days.

If British delinquents are limited to knives and bats, then so aren’t adults. Why should a responsible adult be denied a firearm because of deadbeat parents who can’t bother to raise their kids properly?

Thanks for the reply. It was interesting to hear your thoughts.

I’m sorry, but how is it “easy” to get a gun? Last time I checked I owed my hometown $100, 3 references, and ultimate discretion from the chief of police. I couldn’t even use a cigarette lighter when I was 12, nevermind find someone who could sell me an illegal firearm. This comes down to parenting.

That’s a lot of space for a grand. Especially with a ceiling, that’s about 2 hours of setting up, prepping, working and cleaning. A decent price when you consider what it would take for you to do it without a professional touch.

Get a noise maker for the nights

He’s dead now

Thanks for the input.

I think it’s anti-police rhetoric that is the root of this “work where you live” thing. Let’s just call it what it is. A cop can make a bad arrest, the prosecutor can pursue and win the case, but a judge decides how long you go to jail and somehow the cops the only bad guy? We don’t hear “AJAB” because judges in Massachusetts are appointed by the governor. How do they get appointed? Well, look at their political donations. It’s an easy line to draw. Massachusetts governors, particularly in recent history, prefer judges who defer criminals from jail for better or worse. Judges are often a last hope for a defendant and they usually deliver. But that’s beside the point. I concede there are probably benefits to cops living where they work, but it’s not always practical and should be a choice. But to expect one group of city employees to and not others is unfair, unless there’s hard evidence that proves a benefit to everyone.

I mentioned this in another comment. Some criminals take their arrest personal no matter the circumstances and seek confrontation. It’s not always ideal. If we make police live directly with people they arrest, why aren’t judges required to live amongst the people they sentence?

There are plenty of criminals who take their arrest personally no matter the circumstances. Why aren’t judges required to come from the community, then?

So since you’re an opinion piece, what’s your opinion? Do you support residency for all city jobs as well?

What’s your stance on police living in an extreme affluent town? There are plenty of towns that have average home sales over a million. There’s no way the average entry level cop can afford that.

There’s benefits for sure, but Boston has become so unaffordable that it’s pushing most people out. Only the very rich and very poor can stay. There’s a shrinking middle class. Nearly all civil service jobs require residency at time of taking the exam, but very few have such a strict residency rule. Plus many officers prefer to live outside where they work. Nobody wants to pick up their kid at school standing next to the guy he locked up last week.

I agree. But if the city wants reform, they have to understand negotiation, too. The Globe can’t just say “it is negotiation, after all,” when it comes to BPPA’s stance on the residency and the city’s reluctance to drop the requirement and paint BPPA as stubborn in the same breath. It goes both ways. Nothing is free for both sides.

Blocked by a paywall. Does the city acknowledge their benefit to lifting the requirement?

The residency requirements screw both sides. The city should want to bend on it to alleviate overtime costs and recruitment issues. The Union’s reasons are obvious. The city will never acknowledge that lifting the requirement benefits both sides, however, so an easy to resolve issue will become a sticking point.

Rain storms don’t lead to ice on lakes. Jeez.