BOSTON – A greater percentage of Bostonians walk to work than in any other major U.S. city, while the Hub is tied with Washington for No. 1 among those who either walk or bike to their jobs, according to the Alliance for Biking and Walking.
The assessment marked the second time that Boston has ranked first in the nation among the 50 largest cities in terms of the percentage of commuters who come and go without using cars or public transportation. Yet many cyclists in the Hub still feel that the city has a long way to go to be considered bike-friendly, and by at least one measure, the statistics bear out that view.
BOSTON (AP) — Boston police say they're narrowing the gap between how often black residents are subjected to stops, searches and frisks as compared with whites and other ethnic groups. But an Associated Press review of recently released police data suggests the improvement is more modest than the department claims.
Information that could shed light on whether the stops were appropriate in the first place also hasn't been made public, nearly two months after the initial release of nearly 150,000 "Field Interrogation, Observation, Frisk and/or Search" reports.
