Editorial by Cam G., Co-Founder and Executive Director of Live Boston 617 Inc.
Dear Ms District Attorney,
“Rachael Rollins vows no more bail on gun charges after Roxbury man charged in murder while out on bail”… that headline from the Boston Herald came across my timeline late last night and it hit home with me after covering what has been one of the bloodiest summers in recent Boston history.
No more bail on gun charges.
Many may celebrate this as a win for communities plagued by violence or by law enforcement who have been at the forefront of the outcry against the seemingly daily release of violent offenders by Commonwealth Judges with the support of the DA’s office. But I do not. There should have never been bail for these criminals in the first place.
I see this as a failed administration finally admitting to what many of us have been saying all along. You can not be soft on crime and be a successful District Attorney. Ms Rollins, you seem to love to preach about accountability and civilian review for police, well Ma’am, you and your policies have killed more Suffolk County Citizens than any of the police officers in this county have since you took office. Those same Officers you and your office willingly and happily vilify and undermine on a daily basis, Officers who put their lives on the line every day just to have you dismiss and plea out cases that could clean up the communities of color and communities of poverty you pretend to care so much about. Ms Rollins, how dare you wear that Boston Police Homicide jacket, those are intended for the dedicated Detectives who investigate the horrific murders, not those whom are responsible. You are not fooling anyone with such a disrespectful stunt.
This story could simply be titled: When Policy and Reality Collide: a Story About a Suffolk County DA Who Put Politics Over the Safety of Her Own Community. You ma’am have the blood of many on your hands. Every killing is one too many, but every killing at the hands of a person who should have already been imprisoned, who you should have made sure was imprisoned, is just unacceptable. Convincing yourself that pandering to a reality that could only be realized in a utopia has caused more harm than good. The visceral screams of every mother on her knees behind crime scene tape asking god not to take her baby should be replaced by the unified voices of Suffolk county outside your office demanding you vacate your position and end your social experiment that is causing irreparable damage to our community.
So I ask you Ma’am, what would your civilian review board find as your penance? Maybe you should forfeit the salary of a job you failed to do, and put it towards burying the loved one of the broken families you created, maybe you admit, openly and plainly that you are wrong and let the marginalized and villainized brothers and sisters in Blue clean up this mess you created. As for my civilian review, I think it’s high time you resign.
May your victims Rest In Peace and their families find solace…
Respectfully,
A Witness to Your Carnage
12 Comments
Richard Tarris
3 years agoAmen !
Michael
3 years agoExcellent observation . Long time city resident
BackBayAli
3 years agoAmazing article. It’s about time the REAL MEDIA is calling her out! I have tirelessly been calling her out on her Facebook pages for 19 months and the Facebook BPD log. We are sick of REPEAT OFFENDERS.
We also want her to actually prosecute cases, which is what we hired her to do!
David
3 years agoGreat article she’s a disgrace to her office.
Erin
3 years agoWhy aren’t we demanding her resignation yet?
Steve
3 years agoReading that left me speachless.from western. MA. Cow town but it’s just sad for the people of Boston to have to deal with crime and not be protected. DA Rollins. Step down.
Joe
3 years agoShe’s such a disgrace
Will
3 years agoBoston deserves what it votes for.
Pam
3 years agoYou are right on, writer! Thank you for this well written and thought provoking piece! I pray when she’s up for re-election we all remember hers, Laura Heeley’s and Ianna Presley’s, reaction to the in our clown city!
Kiley
3 years agoWell said.
Mary
3 years agoTo whomever wrote this.. Ty and you are spot on.. finally someone stepped up and spoke up..
Jose
3 years agoShe can VOW all she wants. She’s not a JUDGE and not in charge of bail amounts. She’s also not an elected DEFENSE attorney. Once she comes to the reality that she’s the lead PROSECUTOR of Suffolk County and starts prioritizing the prosecution of all crimes – she’ll be a success. Mobs of dirt bikes, people assaulting officers officers at “peaceful” protests, “permissible theft” (aka shoplifting, shooting dope openly on Mass. Ave. and general disorderly conduct (all) being minimized as prosecutorial or serious offenses are the building blocks to anarchy and violent crime.