Boston Retisi, Bacon Hill, where John Kerry lives to run by open drug use

Residents in Boston Ritzi, Massachusetts, complain that the city’s leadership is not doing enough to control open drug use, as local residents said the situation is “very frightening.”

During a meeting of the Boston City Council in October 2024, Catherine Kennedy, a resident of Bacon Hill, said she did not see this level of illegal drug use in Bacon Hill. Boston 25.

according to RealTor.comThe average price of the house in Beacon Hill is $ 2.3 million.

“Before this year, I never saw the Boston Common, Cambridge Street, or Esplanade, you get this transgression with drugs or people in a crisis,” Kennedy said.

“As a mother of two young children, this is very frightening,” Kennedy added.

Two mother now bears a sharp tool container, intended for needles, in her diaper bag.

A 2024 reports Boston’s Public Health Committee stated that there is an increase of 47.1 % in drug use mortality rates between 2020-2022 compared to 2017-2019 in Beacon Hill, Back Bay, North End and West End communities, which are located near each other.

Likewise, the data collected by the Boston Police Administration indicate an 8 % increase in total theft incidents in 2025 compared to an average of five years in the region, including Beacon Hill.

In 2022, Boston Democratic Mayor Michelle Woo helped launch a needle exchange program, including the distribution of free pipes that can be used to smoke crack or methamphetamine in the “damage reduction” strategy.

And Wu said at that time: “Every step we take revolve around saving lives immediately,” Wu said at that time. “We have seen a significant decrease and data that have proven great success in the parts of this program, and the objectives of this program, which is to ensure that there are preventive infectious diseases.”

For Kennedy, a resident of Beacon Hill, the program led to a dramatic increase in the needles that were seen on her children to school.

Kennedy said, according to what he said Boston Herald. “The need to remove the needles from my children and I walk them to pre -school.

“Boston and the surrounding area are not doing enough to disrupt the addiction cycle that led to this crisis.”

Robert Charles, the former assistant secretary at the International Drugs and Law Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who is running for the position of governor in Maine, told the Americans that the Americans do not fully understand the effect of illegal drugs.

“It is a series of events,” Charles said. “The robbery rises, robbery rises, the attacks rise. Home abuse rises. 80 % of the total domestic assault is associated with polydrug.”