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Attention all units, attention all units!!!
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Already this week Quincy Quarry’s Citizen Police Radio Scanner Monitor picked up on two troubling threads of radio chatter
The first occurred Tuesday night.
The police radio chatter tied to this incident was especially disconcerting.
The reason for police concern was over suspicions that a bomb may have been placed at a local Red Line station.
Not clear as to which one of Quincy’s four Red Line stations, however.
A flashing police cruiser light bar lighting up the night
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In any event, MBTA Police rolled out a K9 unit to sniff for a bomb as well as Quincy police also dispatched a K9 unit, albeit apparently to search a local venue elsewhere that was suspected to be tied to the suspected bomb.
No idea from the scanner traffic how things played out, however.
On the other hand, at least no bomb went off.
At least not yet anyway.
Police responding to the vicinity of 160 Elm Street
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Then on Wednesday came the second incident and which apparently was a serious fight between two males in the vicinity of 160 Elm as noted by Quincy police dispatch, a known to police hot spot at Washington Street and Elm Street in Quincy Center.
Local police quickly responded to scene and closed off Elm Street, and apprehended one of two alleged combatants.
At the same time, a be on the look out notice notwithstanding, the Quarry’s Citizen’s scanner monitor saw four cruisers blow by but only one spotted someone who matched the profile of the other combatant and so stopped to effect an apprehension.
Do we know why these incidents are not reported by the Ledger? I am also assuming that the information is not on publicized police logs either.
Lynne,
Once upon a time the Ledger had more staff to monitor police scanner chatter and other things. Way more staff.
Next, police logs are supposed to be keep in good order with specific incident reports meeting quality expectations, etc. Accessing them, however, can be difficult for reasons ranging from privacy issues to shall we say perhaps slow processing of things.
And as for crime in Quincy, until recently it had been generally for the most part been declining since around 2000 or thereabouts but not as much as crime was concurrently declining nationally.
Additionally, crime in Quincy now appears to be upticking at least a bit more than has been the case nationally in the last few years.
The PL is, in reality, no longer a local paper. That aspect has been replaced with regional and national articles. There are city-specific articles but they are not the primary content. The Ledger is just one of many papers produced by Gannett/USA Today syndicate and the “news” is pretty much homogenized. Look at some of Gannett’s other local papers and and you’ll feel that you’re reading the same material.