Since January, the number of homicides in Boston has more than doubled compared to the same period in 2024.
City officials gathered two weeks ago to outline plans to keep residents safe during the summer months, when crime tends to spike. This is due to more daylight, city activity, kids on summer break and peak tourism — all feeding interactions that can spiral into skirmishes and violence.
“In the last three years, we’ve really been focused on responding not just after something horribly tragic has happened and figuring out what we can do, how we can support, how we can try not to repeat,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said at the press conference in Dorchester…