From the ArcaMax Publishing, News & Features Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/newsheadlines/s-575309-475534
BOSTON (UPI) -- An unusually wet June may have helped cut down on
bloodshed on the streets of Boston, officials said.
The city recorded only one fatal shooting in the month, The Boston
Globe reported Friday. There were only 15 shootings in all, down 60
percent from June 2008.
"We'll take it every time,'' Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis told
the newspaper. "When the weather turns bad, and people are inside,
there's less violence."
This year, rain fell in Boston on 22 days in June. In 2008, there were
only eight rainy days, 38 shootings and three deaths.
The drop in violence this June is especially significant because the
spring was a bloody one in Boston, with a total of 110 shootings by
May 31, up from 80 last year. Street violence tends to increase in the
summer.
Another factor contributing to the drop in violence may have been a
meeting at the beginning of the month involving police, community
leaders and gang members, the newspaper said.