Forget for a moment that nobody around here thinks of Cambridge, Newton and Framingham as one distinct metropolitan area.
Now feel free to celebrate the fact that the “Cambridge, Newton and Framingham metropolitan area” has been ranked the most peaceful metropolitan area in the entire United States, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace, a non-profit research organization dedicated to placing communities into odd groupings dedicated to “shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive, achievable, and tangible measure of human well-being and progress.”
I’m sure this is a nice honor for Newton — but next year we ought to challenge Cambridge and Framingham to a some sort of paint ball fight so we can hold the “most peaceful” title on our own.
It’s all explained on the AtlanticCities.com or else you can wait for Hoss to go through the data for Village14 and provide his own in depth analysis.
Is the middle girl named Newton? Which one is Cambridge?
Am I over-analyzing?
I’m a peacefully proud citizen of New Frambridge … but count me in for the paintball death match.
Cambridge, Framingham games on!!!!
@Hoss: I don’t know which community is which but I wouldn’t be surprised if Fox 25 isn’t working on something about the municipality that allows navel showing for tomorrow morning’s news.
Naval exposure without tattoos seems very reasonable.
How much is this research grant?
V-14 should also relax the white before labor day rule.
Do Cambridge and Framingham have their own ettlingers?
@Re – I trust you understand that every community has individuals who have been charged, but not convicted of crimes. If you are genuinely interested in finding out the status of convicted sex offenders in other communities (as opposed to just throwing stones) that information is available online (I also trust you can find that).
@Greg – count me in for the paint ball fight.
@Lisap:
Can child pornography be a part of the Peace, which includes “… faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, …” (the quote from UN Charter)?
Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) states that: “It achieves its goals by developing new conceptual frameworks to define peacefulness;…”
It seems that IEP serves interest of those, who “use money to make money” (financial speculators and some governments). So, IEP determines a place as peaceful if a financial speculator or government can peacefully take money from the people in that place.
@Re, the criminal behavior of one individual does not undermine the peacefulness of the community. As a society we do not condone that behavior; we prosecute it aggressively, and we anticipate that the charges against the individual will be adjudicated in a court of law by a jury of his peers. If convicted this individual in particular faces a possible sentence of life in prison. How you find this inconsistent with the ideals of a peaceful community is incomprehensible to me, but to each his own.
@Lisap.
Crocodile’s peaceful community is not a peaceful community to its food.
IEP’s peacefulness has little to do with the Peace to the People. Compare the following:
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL is 47 in IEP’s Metro Peace Index by rank – Zimmerman caused the death of a person of other race and was not immediately arrested by police – the people opposed strongly.
Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA is 1 in IEP’s Metro Peace Index by rank – Hoffman caused the death of a person of other race and was not immediately arrested by police – the people opposed mutedly.
So, in accordance with IEP’s Metro Peace Index, Cambridge-Newton-Framingham is the most peaceful community to violators of Human Rights.
@Re, Once again you are trying to compare apples to oranges and the similarities likewise fail once you move beyond broad categorization (i.e. both represent tragedies with the loss of human life, and apples and oranges both represent types of fruit). I also take strong issue with your claim that “people opposed mutedly” the failure to arrest Hoffman. To the contrary, many individuals expressed strong and continued dismay over the failure to (1) arrest Hoffman at the scene; (2) the length of time it took for the State police to complete their accident reconstruction and (3) the length of time it took the D.A.’s office to proceed with charges. This matter received significant attention from the local press which often reported on contact with the D.A.’s office for status updates. Where these cases differ significantly is that in one instance the matter received national attention and in the other it has received local attention. In both cases there has been a strong public outpouring of interest in ensuring that both victims and their families receive justice.
The Institute for Economics and Peace defines 8 key economic, cultural, educational and political determinants which POTENTIALLY foster the creation of a more peaceful society, including factors such as well-functioning government, sound business environment, acceptance of the rights of others, low levels of corruption, etc., etc. In their wisdom, they have not included a complete and total absence of crime as a prerequisite for evaluating the peacefulness of a metropolitan area which is wise and sensible because no community could meet that standard.
@Lisap’s “… POTENTIALLY foster the creation of a more peaceful society…”
for violators of civil rights.
Also, you forgot to mention the most outrages thing, which was Dyanne J. Klein’s bias towards Hoffman, to wit, acting as a judge, she forbade the disclosure of his medical records on the basis that he had passed the field sobriety test – thus she actually precluded from testifying before the jury those police officers, who had officially reported that Hoffman had appeared signs of alcohol impairment immediately after the deadly incident.
@Re – wrong again. The judge excluded the medical records because they do not contain any relevant or probative evidence to support the assertion that he was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident, not on the basis that he passed the field sobriety test. The medical records don’t include any blood tests. The police officers could try to testify that he appeared to be under the influence of alcohol, but that testimony would be quickly impeached by the results of the field sobriety test.
@Lisap.
Why did the judge interpret the medical records? Was she licensed in medicine? Might she act as a medical expert?
Practicing medicine without a license is a crime.
@Re, one cannot “interpret” a medical record which does not exist. Furthermore, you do not have to be a medical expert to read and understand information contained in the records. That’s not practicing medicine. Gheesh.
@Lisap:
One cannot exclude what does not exist. Then what was exluded?
Re – The issue isn’t whether a record exists but whether that record is legally admissible. The medical records that are excluded are those which have absolutely no bearing on the issue of whether at a set point in time a particular individual was driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. It’s up to anyone’s conjecture or speculation as to what may have been included in the medical records, and this is no place to engage in that speculation. There is a process for determining whether those records contain any admissible information: they are presented to the judge who inspects them in camera (in private) to determine whether they contain any legally relevant, admissible evidence. If they do not, as was the conclusion here, then the records are excluded.
My apologies to other readers of this thread for the convoluted and tortured path this thread has taken. And now, back to your regularly scheduled blogging.
@Lisap:
Following you explanation – what did the judge found “admissible” in the medical records of killed Jose Puzul-Perez, that she allowed the use of them?
I think your explanations were illogical to the extend that sometimes seemingly you did not understand what you were talking about – for example, again your:
“… POTENTIALLY foster the creation of a more peaceful society…”
The question is: “Who would be the CREATOR(S)? – Maker of “money from money” Mr. Romney and his colleague Steve Killelea, founder and Executive Chairman of IEP, owner of IT venture capital fund?
They would create Great Depression or Revolution with a little help of Lisap.
Lisap, wake up!
I am off.
Thanks.
@Re, And yet again you misstate (or misrepresent) facts. The trial judge has not made any ruling on whether the victim’s medical records are admissible at trial. As for the quote about potentially creating a more peaceful society, that is a paraphrase and of what is posted at IEP, and all of the factors are items they specifically identify. Your comment that I am contributing to another great depression or revolution is so convoluted and off the wall that I’ll let it stand (keel over) on its own without further commentary.