The link below is to a CrimeReports map of the Ware Street area for the Gates incident.

[jody]

http://crimereports.com/map?search=17+Ware+St+Cambridge%2C+MA+02138&searchButton.x=39&searchButton.y=11&searchButton=SEARCH

or

http://crimereports.com/ with "17 Ware St Cambridge, MA 02138"

[liberalhistorian]

1. And your point is?????

nt

[jody]

2. No point, just providing history as any historian should appreciate. n/t

[Lerkfish]

3. yeah, really. I am amazed at the lengths people are going to try to rationalize bad cop behaviour

[WeDidIt]

4. So Crowley was basically lying

when he claimed daylight robberies in the area are not uncommon.

According to your map, there's barely any crime in the area.

[jody]

5. Not my map and I don't know about its accuracy but at least you looked at it before posting. n/t

[WeDidIt]

6. Well, you posted the link to the original crime search

So I gave you ownership.

Closest bit of crime was a robbery seven blocks away on the 20th. Nothing else anywhere within 2 miles.

[jody]

7. "Nothing else anywhere within 2 miles" I noted that also before I posted the link. n/t

[AllieB]

8. Daytime break-ins committed by a guy with a cane and luggage are not common in Cambridge.

Ware Street and the area right outside of Harvard Square is very affluent. The whole point is that Professor Gates' constitutional rights were violated, after he showed an ID in his house and the cop refused to leave.