On a warm night recently, Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox stood on the outskirts of Dorchester’s Harambee Park, gazing across the street at Franklin Field, a public housing complex where two children and three adults were shot last September.
This year, there have been no shootings at Franklin Field, according to Boston police data — and historically few in the city as a whole, despite recent spasms of violence in Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roxbury. It is a sharp decline that has made Boston, already one of the country’s safest large cities, a national outlier.
Last week, during a peace walk with 30 church leaders, police officers, and Dorchester residents, Cox knocked on wood as he spoke to those gathered around him.
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