In the year since city police and public-works crews cleared out a growing encampment of homeless people and drug users on Atkinson Street, Mass and Cass has seen a significant decrease in crime and quality-of-life problems, officials from Boston's police and public-health departments told city councilors at a hearing by the council's committee on public safety and criminal justice. Read more.
Gee, it’s almost like Mass and Cass was just a physical manifestation of the issue, and not the issue all by itself!
The encampment needed to go, but that was never the entire solution because the people living there had to go SOMEWHERE