Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 asked Cambridge Police Department (CPD) Commissioner Ronnie Watson to provide more information about the incidents.
“You should have a reasonable right to live in a city where people aren’t just shooting,” Reeves told the council.
The CPD has said the two shootings were not related, but Reeves said he is nevertheless concerned that there has been too much gunfire in the city recently.
“It’s fascinating given the small size of the city and the large size of the police force that the certainty about what is occurring is not great,” Reeves said after the meeting.
“It just sort of amazes me that [Watson] didn’t have a better idea of what’s going on in our midst,” he added.
—Staff writer Joshua D. Gottlieb can be reached at jdgottl@fas.harvard.edu.