BOS:311
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#101005009932
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I live at 101 Canal Street, I moved here about a year ago from Sudbury. I have worked in Boston for over 25 years and know the city pretty well. I am a little shocked by how the West End specifically the Canal Street and immediate surrounding blocks are just completely ignored by law enforcement. Crime is a daily occurrence on the block with CVS being a prime target. It has become so bad they actually have had to lock up the ice cream. The irony is that this is also my building where rent is $5-7000 a month and rising. Last week the liquor store on the other side of my building was robbed. The homeless are everywhere. I came out to walk my dog the other day only to see a man with his pants down defecating in an open door way. They convene at the CVS and the Dunkin Donuts and on the corner by Rustics Pizza. The streets are always full of garbage except when your office decided it had to look good for Marathon week so the rest of the world would think it was clean. Valenti way is a disaster in desperate need of repaving. It is only a matter of time before someone breaks an ankle. The homeless break and/or try to break into the building all the time. I have had to physically prevent people who do not live in the building from trying to sneak in when I am exiting. This is not a building issue, its a police issue because your office is allowing all of these folks to convene on the street. As far as I can see there needs to be a Police presence (walking not riding in a truck) all day and night in this area, yet no matter what happens there is never a police officer around. I realize the history of this area, yet today this is a high rent area no different than the Seaport or Back Bay. Despite what you may think, people really take advantage of the invisible police presence here. I have already had $4000 of bikes stolen out of my own building, been involved in a street fight with a few drunk people, and have been witness to dozens of other illegal activities including indecent exposure, harassment and drug dealing. It is time to go back to the Beat Cop walking the streets, checking in on business owners and moving people along who are making it dangerous for the rest of us who pay lots of money to live there. When I have to have a manager unlock a freezer to get an ice cream I can tell it has all gone too far. This is a very small area and really easy for your office to take action. There are commuters coming through this area all day, and more to come with the new State Street tower. It should not be hard to find funding to clean up the streets everyday, and assign at a minimum one police officer to patrol. The manager at CVS told me that they steal everything and there is nothing that he can do about it and the police do nothing. So for $7000 a month I get to be surrounded, in my own building by constant theft, and the types of people that commit those crimes. Again, really easy to fix.. Put a constant police presence on the corner of Canal street, walking the beat as they say. Clean the streets up everyday, so they look like it did when the marathon was here. Fix the road etc. People are people and the more that the City lets this go the harder it will be to reel in. If you want the west end to finally become the neighborhood it should be, you need to remove the fear from the people living there. It's time to step up. | Case (SR) Type: [ONS Coordinator Issues] Referred To: [ONS: N. END/WATERFRONT/W. END]
Location
Intersection Of Anthony Rip Valenti Way And Canal St, Boston, Ma
42.36434318, -71.05987577

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    Case Resolved | I got in touch with the resident and was able to reach out to BPD. C D'Amico ONS