After years of neighborhood concerns about crime and quality of life issues, the Back Central neighborhood is about to get a new Police Precinct in a highly visible spot.
Thanks to space donated by the Lowell Housing Authority, Lowell Police will soon open a new precinct in the Bishop Markham Village, right across the street from Jay’s Food Stores, where much of the activity neighbors and businesses are concerned about is centered.
Work on the location is already complete and once signage has been added to the precinct, a more formal announcement and ribbon-cutting ceremony will be scheduled. Once open, it will be the sixth satellite precinct in the city, joining the ones in the Acre, Centralville, Downtown, Lower Highlands and the already existing Lowell Housing Authority precinct in the Mercier Center.
Repeated incidents and neighborhood complaints have led to multiple motions through the years, including one in May of 2022 by City Councilor Rita Mercier asking LPD to increase patrols in the area. In addition, Interim Police Chief Barry Golner responded by adding visibility through foot patrols, bikes, Segway and a mobile utility vehicle, as well as reaching out Middlesex County Sheriff Peter Koutoujian about utilizing their Mobile Command Center.
Despite those effort, issues fueled by the drug and homeless problems plaguing many city neighborhoods have continued. City officials hope the more permanent presence and visibility will alleviate many of those concerns.
5 responses to “Help on the Way for Troubled Neighborhood”
Please myself and other tenants are so tired and scared of saying of scared we are and tired of complaining to the bishop Markham manger nobody cares how we live WE LIVE IN BUILDING THAT ARE FULL OF URINE AND ADULT POOP IN every floor and elevator nobody cares the lock security door gets broken into in front of so many cameras every day please we are you to us the drugs in this building there a drug dealer in every floor why nobody no one cares about us because we are poor
There’s a police station on our project WHY FOR WHAT NOTHING HAPPENS CHANGE there’s so many drug dealers dealing in front of all the camera how much more evidence you guys need believe it or not they are so many people that are really honest and good BUT WE ARE POOR SO OUR COMPLAINTS DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING TO ANYONE AND ITS SAD SO WE JUST LOST HOPE IN LIVING A BETTER LIFE THE DRUGS DEALERS WON AND THEY KNOW IT THE POLICE IN THE PROJECTS IN LOWELL MA BISHOPS MARKHAM ON GORHAM STREET THE DRUGS DEALERS WON THEY RUN THE PROJECTS
It’s a shame the elderly are living in those conditions lack of leadership at LHA
Sorry I know my first message didn’t make much sense myself and the other tenants are so frustrated with the living situation emergency stairs are stained with urine and feces blood I just don’t understand who do we go to we pay our rent on time there’s so many good tenants that live in this building but why do we have to get treated like that it feels like nobody takes control of what’s going on just because we’re poor doesn’t mean that we should live in a building that’s getting broken into every night
The police department WHAT A JOKE every day I call the police and ask if the bishop MARKHAM police they always tell me there’s no officer there so by the time a officer comes the The attics in the building, where they their drugs they leave then they come back and it’s a constant. It’s a constant fight they keep breaking the security door we call management. Nobody cares nobody why there’s so many good people that live in these projects that all they asked is for what they pay for safety and a sanitize place to live. There’s urine feces blood everywhere. We don’t understand we pay our rent. do you think if it wasn’t the projects that they would come out and treat us right all we asked for is for a security door to keep us safe and there’s cameras everywhere we are begging for help but because we’re poor we don’t deserve the help we are begging begging for someone to help us all we want is to live a building that is not full of people from the street doing drugs in our hallways and leaving Feces urine blood with needles laying around drug baggies everywhere. We are begging you guys someone do something please