Photo: SCHOOL OF THOUGHT: BU students Kelly Hoyer, 19, and Mary Lynne Detoni-Hill, 19, from left, talk about college drinking and alternative activities for students in the city. By Tenley Woodman
The college year is in full swing -- and so are the keg parties. And the police. In the first month of the school year, the Boston Police Department received 150 criminal complaints against students, said BPD Superintendent William B. Evans.
"We are not the anti-party police, but if you are going to draw our attention, shame on you," Evans told the Herald. The BPD and campus police have beefed up patrols in such student-heavy neighborhoods as Mission Hill, Beacon Hill and Allston-Brighton.
Boston University, one of 32 schools in the Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking, has upped the ante in problem areas off-campus in Allston. Extra manpower by both BU and Boston police patrol the student swath known as the GAP (Gardner, Ashford and Pratt streets) on Fridays through Sundays.
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