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Podcast: The Codcast
Episode: Breaking down “Operation Clean Sweep”
Description: How do you balance public safety and neighborhood quality of life concerns with support for the most marginalized people in a community?
Those issues exploded into public view with the recent arrests of homeless people and drug users as part of “Operation Clean Sweep,” a set of Boston police actions centered on the streets near Newmarket Square where the city’s South End, Roxbury, and Dorchester neighborhoods converge.
But the issues are nothing new to state Rep. Liz Miranda and her constituents. She grew up in the shadow of Newmarket Square in a tight-knit Cape Verdean enclave of Roxbury, and says r...