Boston isn’t the only city where mayors, once elected, have mysteriously forgotten their campaign promises. Not even a year after the BLM protests, and so-called “leftist” Democrats had already started ignoring the movement. That 2021 crime spike was obviously a result of COVID-19. To dig a little deeper, though, the crimes that saw the highest increases were hate crimes, specifically anti-Black and anti-Asian crimes, according to an article published by the National Institute of Health [5]. Record numbers of people were killed by police in 2023, according to the Guardian.

Source: CNN February 21, 2024 17:13 UTC