Five people were gunned down on Hyde Park Avenue in Boston just after midnight Saturday, leaving one dead — another night of carnage in a Democrat-run city where officials offer press conferences instead of protection.

According to the Boston Herald, District 18 officers responded to 1184 Hyde Park Avenue at 12:38 a.m. and found all five victims suffering gunshot wounds. One died at the hospital. Police taped off the scene from an AutoZone to a nearby gas station, evidence cones marking shell casings outside. No arrests. No suspect information released. The investigation, police say, remains "preliminary and active."

It wasn't an isolated night. In Greensboro, North Carolina, nine people — including a 15-year-old and three 17-year-olds — were shot inside the Royal Banquet Hall around 1:50 a.m. Sunday, WJLA reported. Greensboro Police Chief Kamran Afzal told reporters the shooting was "targeted" — "by an individual against other individuals" — not a random attack on the crowd. Two men were taken into custody near the scene, but no charges have been announced.

Hours before the Greensboro shooting, officers had already been called to the same banquet hall for reports of underage drinking, people possibly armed, and overcrowding. They found nothing. The shooting happened anyway.

And in Portland, Oregon — the progressive movement's model city — six people were shot at a home in the Cully neighborhood around 3:33 a.m. Sunday, Live 5 News reported. One adult man died. Five others survived, including a teenager. No arrests. No suspect description. Just another case number: 26-224255.

Three cities. Sixteen victims. Two dead. One weekend.

At-Large Boston City Councilor Erin Murphy posted that waking to news of five more people shot "ramps up the urgency" of a public safety briefing she's requesting at this week's council meeting. "Every councilor represents residents who deserve to know their elected officials are informed, included, and working together to keep our neighborhoods safe," Murphy wrote.

Informed, perhaps. Effective? The body count answers that.

In Greensboro, City Manager Nathaniel "Trey" Davis said conversations about a possible curfew will now take place — after the shooting, not before. Chief Afzal's message to parents was blunt: at 2:00 a.m., your kids "should be with you...not monitored by someone else."

He's right. It shouldn't take a mass shooting to state the obvious.

What's missing from every official statement is the question ordinary Americans are asking in the taverns and the living rooms: who keeps letting violent offenders back onto the streets, and when does someone answer for it? Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden — who has faced scrutiny for dropping charges and cutting deals — wasn't mentioned in any of the reporting. The Greensboro and Portland prosecutors went unnamed too. The outlets covered the crime scenes. They didn't cover the courthouse doors the suspects walked out of.

Until someone follows the revolving door from the DA's office back to the crime scene, these weekends will keep repeating.