Just a few miles from the ivory halls of Harvard College and blocks from some of the most expensive real estate in the country is a deplorable out-in-the-open encampment of wandering drug users, a plethora of homeless Americans including U.S. veterans and people with mental illness, suspected human trafficking, and heaps of scattered trash that looks more like a staged scene in a movie on the ghetto district of downtown LA than upscale Boston.
The South End/Roxbury neighborhood, known as “Mass and Cass” for its location at the corner of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue, has for a long time been in this condition. “Ever since I can remember,” retired Massachusetts State Trooper Daralyn Heywood, who served as the first female commander of the state police of the South End barracks, told The Epoch Times.
