BOSTON – This week, Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn filed a resolution at the Boston City Council to declare Mass & Cass and impacted neighborhoods a public safety and public health emergency, and a humanitarian crisis. After years of frustration and concern from residents and small businesses in the area, it’s wholly appropriate to finally acknowledge that the City of Boston’s current plan at Mass & Cass has been an abject failure by any standard. Any reasonable person who visits the area will say unequivocally that what has taken place there on a daily basis for over a decade now – an open air drug market and dealing, public drug use, the trafficking of women, acts of serious violence, public defecation and urination, shoplifting, among others – is completely unacceptable.

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