Furious South End residents see moving as only way out from Mass and Cass spillover

The open-air drug use, dealing and crime that’s spilled over into the South End has deteriorated conditions in that neighborhood to the point where residents are saying the only way they see themselves feeling safe again is to move out.

Dozens of South End residents met in the Cathedral High School gymnasium last Thursday to trade war stories and plead with city and state elected officials and police in attendance to crack down on the “rampant” public drug use and related violence they say is ruining their quality of life in an otherwise ritzy neighborhood.

What matters more, one father recalled asking Boston Public Health Commissioner Bisola Ojikutu at the outset of the meeting: “The right of my children to grow up safely in their neighborhood” or the right of other people to buy and us