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+category:
+    - research
+title: The community on the edge
+date: 2006-01-29T22:16:00
+---
+
+There were again two shootings yesterday, one in Mattapan and other in
+Jamaica Plain. I was thinking about the TV news report about that and
+how does it shows the image of the community, and actually I found one
+thing interesting—the phrase “a community on the edge”. Somehow it again
+lead to the Dave’s “resist outrage” slogan. Of course, that it is
+terrible that somebody was killed, but what edge we are talking
+about—civil war, uprising, falling into anarchy? Probably, they meant
+the last one, but is it really so? Is really “the highest number of
+murders in ten years” (which is still somewhere around the Boston
+average of the long trend) reason for being on the edge?
+
+And of course, that the point is not, what is the truth about the
+homicide rate, but how is it presented and what is the image of that
+homicide rate. What is probably the most interesting (but it may be
+again just the image) is that in this as in the December quater-murder
+people living around were claiming that this was previously rather quite
+neighborhood. Was it really (power of self-dellusion is enormous) and is
+it thus change in the focus of murders from the Blue Hill Avenue area?
+Or were they living in dellusion and whole Dorchester, Mattapan,
+Roxbury, Jamaica Plain is dangerous?
+
+Much more questions that answers. Oh well.