In an unusual move, Boston police released photographs of 10 unidentified young men who the commissioner says should be shamed for belonging to a gang that he contends is responsible for the killing of a 14-year-old that is shaking the city, the Boston Globe reported. The flier is going around the Dorchester community and was distributed to the media.
"We are doing this because we believe the community can play a role in making the individuals who are responsible for the execution of a 14-year-old boy outcasts in their own neighborhood,'' Commissioner Edward F. Davis said in a telephone interview.
Boston papers reported that the city had a particularly violent weekend, prompting outrage from community leaders and police. The city had three killings - or about less than half of the number of people killed in Baltimore over the same span. Here, the mayor and police commissioner were quick to note that all other crime numbers - besides killings and shootings of course - were "fantastic."
Anyway, what do you think of this flier as a police tactic?