Leading Home Security & Alarm Company In Boston

In 1990 Boston saw the largest art heist in US history, when two thieves masquerading as police officers made off with $100 million worth of art, that has never been recovered. While gobsmacking, this incident wasn’t exactly out of character for the historical city: Boston’s overall crime rate is 96% higher than other cities and towns in the USA.

This is no surprise considering the number of famous cases to emerge from here, such as the Boston Strangler who murdered thirteen women and terrorized the city in the 1960s, or James Whitey Bulger, head honcho of the famous Winter Hill Gang, and resident on the FBI’s Most Wanted List for a staggering sixteen years. Don’t be scared off, though: despite Boston’s high violent crime rate relative to Massachusetts in general, it is still safer than other cities of comparable size, such as New York.

Our Boston, MA office serves the following cities and towns in and around Boston:

• Allston
• Back Bay
• Bay Village
• Beacon Hill
• Brighton
• Charlestown
• Chinatown
• Dorchester
• Downtown
• East Boston
• Fenway-Kenmore
• Hyde Park
• Jamaica Plain
• Mattapan
• Mission Hill
• North End
• Roslindale
• Roxbury
• South Boston
• South End
• West End
• West Roxbury
• Chelsea
• Revere
• Cambridge
• Medford
• Somerville
• Malden
• Belmont
• Watertown
• Brookline
• Quincy
• Needham
• Wellesley
• Newton
• Framingham
• Lynn
• Salem
• Lawrence
• Lowell
• Worcester
• Waltham
• Newburyport

And more!

When John Smith arrived in Massachusetts Bay in 1614, the Massachusetts tribe of the Algonquin nation numbered 100,000. Their presence did not dissuade the colonists, however. After exploring present-day Salem and Charleston and finding them too dry, a group of English Puritans settled in the place Smith had called “the Paradise of all these parts,” for its fresh supply of water. They christened it Boston after their hometown in Lincolnshire. Their leader John Winthrop declared that here, “we shall build a city on a hill.”

The Puritans’ “holy commonwealth” already had a name: Shawmut. This name, with the people who held it, soon died: 75% of Massachusetts natives were killed in a smallpox epidemic between 1616-18.

By the mid seventeenth century, Boston had attracted 15,000 settlers. Meanwhile 90% of Native Americans in the area had died of introduced diseases, with the ravages of King Philip’s War in 1675 wiping out many more.

Boston’s new residents had established a thriving city without much help from the British back home, and were growing increasingly resentful of the dues they were forced to pay. Boston rioted city wide in 1765 in reaction to the tyrannical Stamp Act.

The Act was soon repealed, but this small concession paled in the face of the British massacre of five colonists in 1770. Momentum continued to grow in 1773 when, to protest the British tax on colonial tea sales, a group of incensed Bostonians rowed out to cargo ships and dumped four tons of British tea into the harbor. Soon the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired in Lexington and Concord, and before long Boston
was under siege.

We all know how that story ends, but Boston’s story did not end here, as a visit to the thriving city today will demonstrate.

Alarm New England services Boston residents living at the following ZIP codes:

• 02108
• 02109
• 02110
• 02111
• 02113
• 02114
• 02115
• 02116
• 02118
• 02119
• 02120
• 02121
• 02122
• 02124
• 02125
• 02126
• 02127
• 02128
• 02129
• 02130
• 02131
• 02132
• 02133
• 02134
• 02135
• 02136
• 02163
• 02199
• 02203
• 02210
• 02215
• 02222

And more!