The Herald reports on the Aug. 6 attack in which a woman got into a cab on Northern Avenue, then got driven to Newton and raped.

The Herald quotes a State Police spokesman as saying, oops, yeah, they sat on the news because of an ongoing jurisdictional dispute with Boston Police over who gets to patrol the waterfront, at a time when women in South Boston are already on edge thanks to the murder and other attacks for which Edwin Alemany has been charged and a separate attack on a woman in Fort Point.

State Police, who during the same period found the time to tweet about truck surfing on the Expressway and the beer truck in Charlestown, have been locked in a dispute with Boston Police for years over who gets to patrol the large swaths of the South Boston waterfront owned by Massport, land that was once used mostly for holding and shipping cargo but which now houses bars, restaurants and hotels, and, soon, large numbers of apartments.

In 2011, State Police boycotted a City Council hearing at which Boston Police officials charged the staties had impeded criminal investigations in the area and said it was time the state legislature let Boston take full control of the area as it transforms from a seaport into a residential district.