Many immigrants do not trust the police in their home countries, so they fear them here too. Which means many of them do not report crimes and criminals take advantage of that fact. City police forces are trying to break down that barrier. - - Donna Poisl
Police strive to gain Latino immigrants' trust
By Maria Cramer, Globe Staff
A thief breaks into a car on Eagle Hill. A day laborer is beaten up near Chelsea Street for not handing over his wages. Near Maverick Square, a woman's house is ransacked and her belongings stolen.
Such crimes have been commonplace in East Boston in recent months, but police said they often do not hear about them until hours or days after they have happened, and sometimes not at all, because few witnesses or victims are bothering to call 911.
As the city works to keep the peace in this largely immigrant neighborhood, which has seen a sharp rise in crime over the first four months of the year, police say they are confronting a formidable obstacle: silence.
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