There’s no doubt that police-community relations – particularly for young people – have been strained since the beginning of the pandemic, and they only got worse in the wake of the George Floyd murder and other national incidents. The increase in high-profile school violence this year has contributed to that strain, and Boston Police said they felt they needed to reclaim
Just a little over a mile of Dorchester’s Washington Street separates Tech Boston Academy (formerly Dorchester High School) from Jeremiah Burke High, and the schools’ two state-ranked boys’ basketball programs share not only proximity, but also a newly competitive rivalry and kinship on and off the floor.