okay chapter and verse once again.
a friend of mine had a quid shop on the green at boston.
we were standing outside chatting to the shopkeeper - a man i had gone to school with some forty odd years previously - my wife and i.
a gang of oddly dressed men ran into the shop, helped themselves. ran out again -   arms full of loot.
i said to the shop owner why don't you call the police.
i didn't know they were eastern europeans - my wife has since told me that the shopkeeper told us this was the case.
the shopkeeper also told us - there was no point in notifying the police as the situation was out of control.
i would also point out the boston website, where remarks and complaints are now banned, because they would make up the bulk of posting - and no one is interested.

my observation has pissed you off and i sorry about that. however if people have stopped bothering reporting the crimes, because nothing ever gets done. it does offer an explanation as to why the statistics don't bear out my story,

whereas i do tend to think the brexit referendum figures for boston, my hometown do suggest i am not a dishonest racist or given to dishonest racist remarks - which seems to be the argument of insidious intent.

i can assure you that when my dad was a cop policing boston - it was not the general way of things.

sorry if my attempt at humour upset you. won't do it again.