Statistics kept by Boston Police show that shootings and gun violence are at an all-time-low across Boston. But, in pockets of Dorchester and Mattapan, residents say that fear and anxiety about shootings is at an all-time high. Grappling with how those two realities can both be true at the same time was a central theme at a City Council-sponsored hearing last Thursday evening
In Boston’s world of community violence prevention, Dr. Rufus Faulk has seen it all, attending hundreds of tragic funerals and celebrating successes when people and neighborhoods have improved. But in February, he plans to step away from that work. For the last three years, he’s served as a senior adviser on public safety to the mayor, a cabinet-level post he plans to leave on