The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in New Bedford, MA: …
WEBCrime Grade's crime map shows the safest places in New Bedford in green. The most dangerous areas in New Bedford are in red, with moderately safe areas in yellow. Crime rates on the map are weighted by the type and severity of the crime.
6 New Bedford homes used by enslaved people escaping via the ...
WEBFeb 25, 2022 · NEW BEDFORD — When African American slaves in the South escaped to the North before the Civil War, they had to find shelter in safe houses because while they were up north and away from their...
New Bedford Police Department reviewing gang list, acting …
WEBMay 20, 2021 · NBPD's use of a gang list — and the list's "unreliability" and "racial bias" — were recently discussed and argued in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for a case involving a New Bedford...
New Bedford and Fall River ranked in Top Ten most dangerous …
WEBMar 11, 2023 · The most recent data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) ranked the 298 most dangerous cities in the Commonwealth. Two cities on the SouthCoast made the top ten list: New Bedford made 3rd place and Fall River made 7th …
New Bedford police target Blacks, low-income neighborhoods, …
WEBApr 15, 2021 · NEW BEDFORD — The city's police department has been policing Black people, including youth, in low-income neighborhoods at significantly higher rates than white people, according to a new...
New Bedford, Quiet but Tense, Still Faces All Its Problems
WEBAug 4, 1970 · The city lifted the curfew Monday night, but the West End ghetto remained tense as young blacks clustered on corners and heavily-armed police patrolled the streets. The turmoil in New Bedford...
New Bedford changes gang policy: harder to get into database
WEBOct 20, 2021 · The New Bedford Police Department announced Tuesday it's changing its gang policy to be more stringent. It comes after a controversial report by Citizens for Juvenile Justice earlier this year...
Greening the Ghetto - The New Yorker
WEBJan 4, 2009 · A hundred and fifty years ago, New Bedford was the whaling capital of the world. “Nowhere in all America will you find more patrician-like houses; parks and gardens more opulent, than in New...
Nathan & Polly Johnson House – NB Historical Society
WEBNathan and Polly Johnson, prominent African American abolitionists in New Bedford, sheltered escaped slaves in this Underground Railroad ‘station.’. It was here, in September 1838, that Frederick (Augustus Washington Bailey) Douglass found freedom, a new name, and with his wife Anna, his first home in freedom.
10 Years After The New Bedford ICE Raid, Immigrant Community Has Hope - NPR
WEBMar 6, 2017 · Under the cover of darkness on a freezing March morning, 300 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents headed for New Bedford, Mass. Once there, they would raid a factory and arrest 361...