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Boston to Westboro - 32.8 miles

Boston to Westfield - 96.3 miles

Boston to Pittsfield - 136.5 miles

Keeping Mark in Boston - priceless!!

Central Mass is actually between Worcester and Springfield.... anything from Springfield and west is "Western Mass"...

 

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Hey MarkBoston. Easy on the westerm mass folks, will ya! Remember, when you go to a domestic or armed robbery or even an illegally parked car, you go with 10-15 cops. We go alone. Ya gotta respect that a little, right? :lol:

Thanks Sarge!! Exactly, and if we need backup we call the neighboring PD, which often has one PO or none on duty, so then we call MSP. MSP are great, but obviously they can be coming from afar so it'll take awhile. If you stop a guy with a gun you have some serious backup in just under 1 minute, we may have no one or have to wait several minutes... I just experienced this a couple weeks ago... No back-up. And you think you have it rough...?

And there are also a few BPD Officers that are originally from Western Mass...