Today, Judi Wright, the Director of the Boston Police Department's Neighborhood Crime Watch Unit retired after 17 years of service.
Judi served the people of Boston with compassion and commitment and we wish her good health and happiness.
If you'd like to share your appreciation of Judi's work please leave a comment below.
Pictured above: Wallace Tilford, Judi Wright, Chris Hayes (Founder of the Neighborhood Crime Watch Unit - Retired), and myself, Joseph Porcelli.
About Judi Wright:
Judi Wright worked with the Neighborhood Crime Watch Unit since 1991 and was its director since 2002. She found helping to build relationships between the Boston Police and residents that serve to make their neighborhoods safer, better places to live deeply satisfying. Judi said, “It is rewarding when I go to a street and am able to reduce the fear neighbors have and help them organize to fight crime.” She truly believed that Neighborhood Crime Watches are the embodiment of Community Policing its most basic level. She moved to the South End in 1972 with her husband and 2 small sons and she has been involved in community organizing ever since: over the years as a parent of Boston Public School students, as a member and co-chair of the City-Wide Educational Coalition—an independent citizen’s watchdog and advisory group—as a co-chair of the Community District Advisory Council that covered the area from Charlestown to Roxbury under Court Ordered desegregation, as a member of her neighborhood association, and as co-president of the Boston League of Women Voters—a nonpartisan policy and voter education/information group. Before being lured to the Neighborhood Crime Watch Unit by its founder, Chris Hayes, Judi served as the Executive Assistant to the Commissioners of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. Judi is a certified Massachusetts Crime Prevention Officer and a certified Mediator.
