Hope he has a speedy recovery and can give as much info as he can to our PD so they can catch him.

There is no crime in Malden, no gangs, no guns there Is nothing to worry about, carry on.... Our former mayors legacy. Hope he does the same bang up job for Winchester

Not again. Now we will have to endure another front page story on the cover of the Boston Globe about how bad the city of Malden is becoming. It won't matter that shootings happen in other cities too, for some reason Malden always gets picked on. Then
my friends will question how I can live here, when they don't realize this really is a good city, but with a lot of people who simply don't belong here-squatters, hangers on, people who are driving in looking for those who are constantly in trouble. If Malden wants the comeback it needs, rounding up these knuckleheads had better be job one. And the one thing I DO NOT want to happen is for me or any member of my family to get shot in a drive-by. This latest is way too close to an area populated with shoppers and families.

My friends house was broken into this past weekend, my condo was broken into on Thursday while my fiancee was in bed sleeping and my friends car was broken unto last night. We all live within a mile of each other in Malden. It's very disheartening.

Time for drastic measures...and it will cost some $$$...Mayor Christenson has the right plan, right ideas, right people around..but solutions will cost and we citizens will have to accept cuts elsewhere in order to invest in public safety...simple as that...time to take our city back!! Ferryway to Eastern Ave through downtown has become a danger zone...3 shootings and a stabbing within weeks if each other? There are physical and financial limits that can and will prohibit solutions...but a diligent citizenry willing to accept reductions elsewhere to reinvest in public safety solutions is essential. Criminal behavior disappears in areas where residents are observant and take responsible action to inform Police of concerns. If criminals don't feel secure in committing crimes in a certain area...they won't. Physical and highly visible police presence in the Ferryway area is a must day and night...I for one would pay more in taxes to see more police presence in the city. 4 shootings 1 stabbing all in the open in a less than 5 block radius this summer...doesn't take s detective to see the trend and create a portion at least of the remedy. The other issue is 80% of the residents of Malden will have no clue any of these happened..they are too disengaged from life and community to care. They want someone else to care and fix it...until that apathy changes it will bd s long road.

Malden is just growing up, getting to be just like Lawrence, Brockton, Boston etc. Yell and scream all you want, demand justice for the streets and see how thats working in Roxbury/Mattapan. A thousand cops wont make a difference. Blame the Judges, yell and scream at them for lack of truth in sentencing, stop letting these miscreants out on bail and early release. A dirtbag gets 10 years he should do 10 years. Tell Deval to build more jails/prisons, I'd pay more taxes for that.

While I certainly believe that this wasn't random, that's not terribly comforting in light of the fact that it occurred in the middle of the day in a presumably crowded parking lot on a major thoroughfare. Any word on whether the two incidents are related?

i have to agree with the majority of ideas that Scott has put out there, and I believe his last suggestion is the one most of should be thinking of. How does that happen? Like all things that we want and need in this community it will take everyday citizens and leaders to bring awareness to the public and to discuss more openly why are these crimes being committed? Find out why and discuss how we can rid of the incentives for these crimies. If we can get another 10% of the population to become more involved using Scott's numbers, that would help a great deal. Maybe that's the first idea we need and the greatest challenge to lower these crimes. Who has an idea how we can get the community more involved? I think it's the most important thing right now. Yes, more cameras everywhere, maybe will bring out the big brother comparisons but doing something is better than doing nothing. Like Scott says this problem will only get worse and is not going away until "WE"
do somethingabout it.

Quite a year here. I'm sure I will forget some but the bank robbers trying to shoot our police on Broadway. The guy shooting the pizza shop on Ferry The store that was going to close for being robbed with guns so many times. The Madison Market last week. Guy murdered his wife last week. A whole bunch of stabbings and overdoses and now all these shootings on Salem street barbershop at the parks and now on Cross street and Charles street. Years of cutting the police has it's consequences.

Some of you think a community newsletter, e-mail chain or a bunch of folks holding hands on city hall plaza singing kumbaya is going to make the crime go away?? Safety Forums?? are places for politicians to spew garbage and promises they cant keep. How many police, in uniform and not, patrol the streets of Boston? Hundreds! They have microphones to pick up gun shots and map them, cameras up the wazoo, street workers and clergy roaming the streets and holding coffee hours and candlelight vigils and guess what........they are still shooting and stabbing people. These type of criminals dont care about anything, the only thing that will keep them out of Malden is a lengthy prison term or a coffin!
Put some pants on, lace up your boots and bang on some legislators doors along with Devals and demand they build more prisons!

Just came back from an errand in the square and just as I thought, two news trucks are parked in the Applebee's lot just waiting to spew the typical urban warfare story.

At least they can stop in for a steak Lynette

My bad

Update is that the second shooting involved people who knew each other and the shooting was over a girl. Pathetic.

Thank you mayor Howard for leaving us your great legacy.

police and fire cuts in Malden have nothing to do with the !@#$storm of scumbags running the streets in Malden.....the problem today is EBT and welfare and housing to able bodies who should be working to earn their keep like the rest of us....aid should be for the disabled and elderly only.....people who live in the projects shouldnt have a nicer car than me.......

put it this way, if someone attacks me and provokes me with violence, I don't shoot to maim (yes, I can legally carry a gun. and yes, I am probably one of the most trained in firearms in the city. and yes, I am also the most safety conscious with regards to firearms)...so a prison sentence, for that guy at least, won't be a concern

Its going to take an intelligently designed plan that yes will cost significant dollars but that's long term...in the short term increase police patrols in the areas seeing increased and unprecedented violence and find ways of providing better lighting in these areas...Ferryway has lights but plenty if darkness and shadows...and you'll notice at night people lingering in the darker areas...what are they hiding? Also because so many of us are working law abiding citizens we dont see or we choose to ignore alot of which is around us...and most of Malden residents just dont want to be bothered until it happens to them...hoping that the cold weather will change things by keeping trouble indoors want work...none of US will forget this summer and next summer will be worse if we don't find solutions now.

All it will take to stem the tide of violent crime here and beyond is judges with some grapes, the death penalty and more prisons, its that simple!

I woulda bet the house you would step up and refute my statement. Tell me Ms Diane, what do you think the answer is? or are you going to let the politicians speak first?

Take the blue bag money and use it to hire more cops, think we need more cops than DPW workers

tanks for da english lessons. When your done lighting candles and figure out what the solution is please come back and let us know. Until then I will leave you with, BUILD MORE PRISONS.

Told ya there are going to be more. Guns all over Malden. Best bet get a gun dont register it (SHOOT N TOSS) someone comes in and blast em. Toss the gun and play stupid. Time to clean house and thank you MR FORMER MAYOR for listening too us the blood is on your hands. Mr New Mayor Gary ya going to have to get a grip on it. Its terrible you have to take over someone else's mess but hold up on the concrete and get to it before more people gets hurt. Thats near the Applebee's and a stray could have hit someone eating a ribblet!

There are so many that walk through that parking lot me as well with my dogs.

There isn't a problem out there that can't be solved with the use of firearms. Let's bring it back to the Wild West days, when everyone had a gun to protect themselves with.

They not being random acts doesn't make me feel any better some how.

Same problem, different year. Same arguments a few years later, since I've been watching closely. We're stuck in neutral on this issue. Engines revving but nothing getting done except wear on the parts as we chew on each other.
I think we need hard nosed leadership to articulate a way forward and give us confidence in the execution of some sort of solution.

Any former military folks out there who would be qualified to start and organize a citizens patrol?

it costs less to send a young person to college for fours years than it costs us tax payers to detain one in jail.....our taxes are wasted on little crimes and prisons are full of mickey mouse plastic gangsters and petty crooks....death penalties and firm hard sentencing in hard labor camps are a deterrent and would make people think twice....and as for guns I love them own them and believe in arming law abiding citizens....ps...my mother was murdered in a home robbery in Malden in Dec.1999 by a junkie so I don't preach it Ive lived it!!!!!

It's a few years later and we're still complaining about the same problems in this town. Too many of us have decided to do absolutely nothing. Too many have no desire to do anything. Met a neighbor after church this morning who pretty much said after I mentioned the shootings, "It's hot summer. Bound to happen". Shrugged his shoulder and we said bye.
I'd be amazed if anyone had the garbanzo beans to try and start a citizens patrol. Not happening in this town. The people aren't interested and the police won't allow it.