Boston Blotter: Ed Is Fed Up

--The Commish has talked tough before, but Ed Davis says that he will deploy more police to town "hot spots" (also known as places where people get shot), and the police will start tailing persons of interest. The "hot spots" are as follows: Bowdoin/Geneva, Franklin Field/Franklin Park, and Grove Hall in Dorchester. Egleston Square in Roxbury is also included.

Davis didn't mention bringing gang members to the negotiating table, at least not as far as we could tell. But he did say that he "may ask the U.S. attorney for a federal investigation into local street gangs."

--In equally interesting news, after basically steering clear of the Guardian Angels, some members of the law have decided to talk to them. Transit Police Chief Joseph Carter met with the Angels last night. We have seen at least two pictures of Guardian Angels working the T beat, and, after the stabbings and the recent bus shooting suggested that there weren't enough officers on the T, it seems as if Carter is looking to the Angels for a little help.

Apparently some of this indicates some kind of political split, but, as far as we're concerned, the various city departments ought to put their differences aside if they want to get anything done. The mayor was also oddly quiet during Davis' press conference.

--Car accidents usually don't make the blotter because – well, they're accidents, but they catch our eye when they happen back-to-back. Another vehicle went off a highway ramp that fed onto I-93 South yesterday afternoon, dropping 70 feet and leaving the driver in critical condition. The driver of a tractor-trailer went off the ramp and landed on the Leverett Connector, right on the front of an SUV. The driver of the SUV got lucky and had only minor injuries.

You might wonder if something's up with the ramps since a similar accident happened recently, but police think the tractor-trailer driver was going too fast. But the Globe notes that the ramp involved is a Big Dig ramp, so somebody might want to look into it.

--We haven't forgotten old-fashioned white-collar crime here at Bostonist. Five men, two of them locals, were plotting to bilk Building 19 of $4 million dollars.

This one's complicated. Essentially, Building 19 would order rugs from flooring companies through International Floor Craft. International Floor Craft would ship fewer rugs, but Building 19 would say that they received them all and pay the flooring companies. Whatever money was left over was split by the schemers. It seems like a really complicated way to make $4 million bucks.

Our favorite image of Ed Davis with and without mustache by Jon Petitt. Davis looks tough to us either way.