Troops with tanks occupied the city. There was unethical intervention by US prosecutors with the Tsarnaev family. Media did not investigate and simply repeated the prepared narrative.
Many experts raised questions. The crisis actors were exposed. The unprecedented closing of an entire city while police ordered families out of their homes while their homes were searched were shown to be extreme measures just to capture a wounded teenager. In other words, a thriller terrorist story was orchestrated to make certain the public saw the brothers as dangerous terrorists. I covered the story at length on my website see for example August 17, Bureaucratic hacks adhere to the law but make use of little-known or little-used provisions to get things done faster.
To be sure, an innovator has to be judicious in their hacking, as a culture of rule-bending comes with its own serious pitfalls. But careful and selective deployment of this strategy can help deliver new services to citizens even amid regulations not tailored for every situation at hand.
Know when to exit. Twenty months after One Fund Boston was established, its board shut it down. So, as they had planned from the outset, the board members declared they would no longer accept contributions. City innovators often make a commitment to shutting down new efforts when they are no longer needed, but following through on those commitments can prove difficult. Constituencies build up.
Careers get established. A more explicit approach to problem solving that includes exiting, rather than perpetual institution building, is both effective and empowering. Speed comes with consequences, not all of them good.
A fraudulent application was paid out. Length of hospital stay is only a very rough proxy for injury severity and could be revisited for future funds like this. And the millions in support he ultimately directed to the new fund is some testament to his own good character and his belief in our work, its speed, and its resulting scale.
Innovation, in cities and other contexts, often involves adaptation and repurposing, a program scaled to another place or a private sector tool tweaked for public use. But starting from scratch and doing something truly new can sometimes be the key to solving problems faster and more effectively.
You have 1 free article s left this month. You are reading your last free article for this month. Subscribe for unlimited access. Create an account to read 2 more. Read more on Experimentation or related topic Government. Websites for individual victims have also sprung up -- like one for newlyweds Patrick and Jessica Downes, who each lost a leg below the knee in the explosion.
The Downes, who married in August, were standing at the finish line when the first bomb detonated, knocking onlookers to the ground and tearing up limbs in a bloody scene that witnesses described as surreal. Friends and relatives of the couple set up a GiveForward site for people to donate money for the couple's medical care. Patrick Downes, a graduate of Boston College, is described as "innocent, perpetually polite, the ultimate Boston boy who was nicknamed 'Jesus' in high school for his goodness," according to messages from friends on the couple's website.
A friend described his wife, Jessica, a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, as "the funniest, most selfless, and introspective people I knew. Martin's 7-year-old sister, Jane, who was standing next to him at the time of the blast, lost a leg, and the children's mother, Denise, suffered a severe upper-body injury and underwent brain surgery.
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