Actually Hunnewell Field has been a late night hunting ground for 'neer-do-wells' for some time. Because it sits just down the street from the police station it can be hazardous to anyone with larceny or mayhem in mind.
Anyone here remember the incident where a WPD officer just returning home from from working the second shift while crossing Hunnewell field was accosted by a knife wielding would be robber (rapist...lol) ? Instead of doing what cops are instinctively taught to do, he took the guy down and disarmed him while sustaining a small cut in the web of his hand.
For risking his life, he He got razzed unmercifully on the 'rape' scenario and was made front page hometown hero for a week in the Wellesley Townsman aka the 'mackerel wrapper'. IIRC, I don't think he got a CIS debrief, he was too busy laughing at what he had done