In 2022 the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office launched Services Over Sentences, a program funded to help lower-level offenders in the Mass and Cass area receive the support necessary to leave the area.
A Mass and Cass drug dealer who had a "major presence" in the area has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after being convicted on numerous drug and gun charges.
Three people have been indicted for drug trafficking or gun crimes, and dozens more are facing arrest, as Suffolk County prosecutors and Boston Police crack down on the rise of violent crime.
Boston authorities expect to make dozens of arrests this summer linked to alleged offenses near Newmarket Square as part of an ongoing effort to tackle a rise in violent crimes and public safety and health concerns around the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins recently announced that Boston’s municipal courts issued about .