{"id":2255881,"date":"2024-05-30T15:11:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T19:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breakdown-of-civil-society-heres-how-progressive-boston-mayor-just-went-weaker-on-crime\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T19:18:08","slug":"breakdown-of-civil-society-heres-how-progressive-boston-mayor-just-went-weaker-on-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breakdown-of-civil-society-heres-how-progressive-boston-mayor-just-went-weaker-on-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of Civil Society: Progressive Boston Mayor Takes a Softer Stance on Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbreakdown-of-civil-society-heres-how-progressive-boston-mayor-just-went-weaker-on-crime%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2255881&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text discusses the perspective and actions of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, reflecting \u2064on \u200bher endorsements and policies related to criminal justice and race issues. It mentions her support for the Suffolk County District Attorney&#8217;s \u200b&#8221;do-not-prosecute&#8221; list and her approach&#8217;s alignment with a Marxist viewpoint. The piece also touches on the upcoming electoral \u200bchallenge to Wu\u2064 in 2025. The article delves into Boston\u200b Mayor Michelle Wu&#8217;s stances on criminal justice and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/read-this-book-to-counter-the-hopeless-lies-of-1619-project-racial-determinists\/\" title=\"Read This Book To Counter The Hopeless Lies Of \u20181619 Project\u2019 Racial Determinists\">race-related policies<\/a>, highlighting \u2063her backing of the &#8220;do-not-prosecute&#8221; list\u200c by the Suffolk County District Attorney. \u2062It emphasizes the alignment of her approach with Marxist ideologies.\u2063 Additionally, the text acknowledges an impending electoral challenge against Wu in 2025.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/michael-schwarz\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/michael-schwarz\/%20\"><span>Michael Schwarz<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 30, 2024 at 10:00am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Race-obsessed, woke progressives (read: Marxists) have a nightmarish vision for their communities that they can only realize through demonic duplicity.<\/p>\n<p>For example, in 2021, Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston, Massachusetts, then a mayoral candidate, expressed support for criminal justice-related policies shaped by the toxic racial ideology of modern-day Marxism.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas their Leninist and Maoist forbears regarded economic class as the basis for sorting human beings into categories of oppressors and victims, today\u2019s Marxists \u2014 often affluent elites themselves \u2014 use skin color, ethnicity and other factors associated with historical prejudices in order to create new oppressor and victim categories, stoke animosities that have long since dissipated and then impose their favorite authoritarian remedies for the imaginary aggression of one racial or ethnic group against another.<\/p>\n<p>Worst of all, policies that result in enslavement to Marxist authoritarianism come cloaked in the language of compassion. Indeed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/screwtape-proposes-toast-c-s-lewis-believed-demons-love-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demons<\/a> have often worked that way.<\/p>\n<p>As a mayoral candidate in 2021, Wu completed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.progressivemass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-Boston-Mayoral-Candidate-Questionnai_MW.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questionnaire<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.progressivemass.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Progressive Massachusetts<\/a>, which has described itself as a \u201cstatewide, member-driven grassroots organization committed to fighting for a vision of shared prosperity, racial and social justice, good government, and environmental sustainability in Massachusetts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the subject of \u201cpublic safety,\u201d the questionnaire asked whether candidates \u201csupport the Suffolk County District Attorney\u2019s Office\u2019s do-not-prosecute list and expanded approach to dealing with such low-level offenses.\u201d Wu answered \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins drafted a <a href=\"https:\/\/files.suffolkdistrictattorney.com\/The-Rachael-Rollins-Policy-Memo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">policy memo<\/a> that included this \u201cdo-not-prosecute list.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For instance, Rollins identified 17 \u201cnon-violent driving, drug and property crimes\u201d among her office\u2019s most frequently filed charges since 2013. These included trespassing, disorderly conduct, larceny, destruction of property, and different classes of drug possession.<\/p>\n<p>She also argued against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wife-prison-visit-coordinator-comes-forward-exposes-j6-accuses-treated-worse-murderers-rapists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prison<\/a> time for such offenses. Hence the \u201cdo-not-prosecute\u201d list.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Should Americans fire every politician who is weak on crime?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cData show that a carceral approach to low-level, non-violent offenses can do more harm than good,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, Rollins preferred \u201cinnovative, evidence-driven diversionary alternatives\u201d to incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds compassionate. After all, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/denomination-abomination-rise-heresy-mainline-christianity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christianity<\/a> calls us to be merciful.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, conservatives who distrust <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/j6er-reveals-jesus-saved-life-fbi-itching-something-happen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">government agents<\/a> cannot pretend that the justice system always or even usually produces justice. Innocent people do go to prison while the guilty sometimes act as their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/judge-merchan-issues-last-minute-jury-instruction-designed-convict-trump-even-jurors-dont-agree\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">judges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Rollins-Wu approach to criminal justice, however, has nothing to do with mercy or civil liberties. Instead, it stems from a sinister oppressor-victim worldview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA large number of criminal convictions secured by prosecutors nationally are for drug, property, and public order offenses, which are often driven by economic, mental health, and social needs,\u201d Rollins wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, \u201ceconomic\u201d or \u201csocial\u201d factors \u2014 mental health is a different category \u2014 often explain why people commit such offenses. This distorted perspective allows prosecutors and judges, acting from faux compassion, to classify those offenses as what the U.K.\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13474059\/Bostons-Democrat-mayor-Michelle-Wu-criminals-not-prosecuted.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a> called \u201c\u2018quality of life\u2019 crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thus, when supposed victims of an unjust system commit \u201cquality of life\u201d crimes, for instance, against property and public order, the actual victims of those crimes have no recourse, for those actual order-loving and property-holding victims, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/leftists-hate-christianity-kryptonite-marxism-filmmakers-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marxist<\/a> view, are oppressors by definition.<\/p>\n<p>In her questionnaire answers, Wu made it clear that she endorsed that view.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, she identified \u201c[c]losing the racial wealth gap\u201d and \u201csecuring our future through climate justice as racial and economic justice\u201d among her major campaign priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Worst of all, perhaps, she pledged race-based political purges from the Boston Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, when asked whether \u201caffiliation or sympathies with white supremacist organizations among officers\u201d constituted a problem, Wu delivered a chilling reply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes. I have advocated for terminating any BPD employees who were involved with the January 6th Capitol insurrection. Under the new police contract, any officers who have been found to have affiliation with white supremacist organizations should be terminated,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>If the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desperate-biden-says-trump-wouldnt-pardon-black-americans-insane-jan-6-rant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capitol incursion<\/a> of Jan. 6, 2021, leapt to Wu\u2019s mind when answering a question of this nature, then one can easily imagine what sort of \u201corganizations\u201d she would define as \u201cwhite supremacist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Wu showcased her race-obsessed Marxist worldview last year when she hosted an \u201celecteds-of-color\u201d-only holiday party for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/far-left-cheers-as-homeless-group-seizes-hotel-near-tacoma-city-leaders-negotiating-with-group-as-police-refuse-to-intervene\/\" title=\"Far Left Cheers As Homeless Group Seizes Hotel Near Tacoma; City Leaders Negotiating With Group As Police Refuse To Intervene\">city council members<\/a>, Fox reported. The party caused controversy when a staffer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dem-mayor-fire-accidentally-sending-email-invite-racist-holiday-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accidentally sent<\/a> council members a mass email invitation intended for non-whites only. Wu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dem-mayor-fire-no-whites-allowed-holiday-party-tries-explain-makes-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apologized<\/a> for the email but not for the racially segregated party \u2014 a favored tradition of Democrats for 200 years.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, Wu will face an electoral challenge in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local-news\/2024\/05\/29\/north-end-restaurant-owner-outspoken-wu-critic-reportedly-plans-to-run-for-boston-mayor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston.com<\/a>, North End restaurant owner Jorge Mendoza-Iturralde will look to unseat the Marxist, segregationist mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza-Iturralde and his brother Patrick Mendoza <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/2023\/07\/18\/mayor-michelle-wu-critics-list-boston-police-what-why\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made headlines<\/a> in the summer of 2023 when they appeared, along with 13 other names, on a list of the mayor\u2019s critics that her office submitted \u2014 ironically \u2014 to the BPD. Many of those critics dared to challenge Wu\u2019s COVID-19 policies, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>In short, Wu\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watchdog-group-files-complaint-against-biden-joint-chiefs-nominee-over-race-based-hiring\/\" title=\"Watchdog group files complaint against Biden's Joint Chiefs nominee for 'race-based hiring'.\">race-obsessed worldview<\/a> and authoritarian disposition constitute two sides of the same Marxist coin. She has endorsed Rollins \u201cdo-not-prosecute\u201d list of low-level offenses not because she believes in mercy or civil liberties \u2014 both of which she would deny to her political opponents \u2014 but because that particular approach to crime and punishment surreptitiously advances the Marxist narrative.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>I heard a chilling comment the other day: \u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>That wasn\u2019t said by a conspiracy theorist or a doomsday prophet. No, former U.S. national security advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said that to the founder of The Western Journal, Floyd Brown.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Gen. Flynn\u2019s warning means that the 2024 election is the most important election for every single living American. If we lose this one to the wealthy elites who hate us, hate God, and hate what America stands for, we can only assume that 248 years of American history and the values we hold dear to our hearts may soon vanish.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The end game is here, and as Benjamin Franklin said, \u201cWe must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>All of this means that <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>without you<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, it\u2019s over. We have the platform, the journalists, and the experience to fight back hard, but Big Tech is strangling us through advertising blacklists, shadow bans, and algorithms. Did you know that we\u2019ve been blacklisted by 90% of advertisers? 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You\u2019ll experience a radically reduced number of ads, and most importantly you will be vitally supporting the fight for America\u2019s soul in 2024.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We are literally counting on you because without our members, The Western Journal would cease to exist. Will you <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>join us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  in the fight? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Sincerely,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Josh Manning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Deputy Managing Editor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Western Journal<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-45760\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/michael-schwarz\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-45760\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-45760\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-45760\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-45760\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Michael Schwarz holds a Ph.D. in History and has taught at multiple colleges and universities. He has published one book and numerous essays on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Early U.S. Republic. He loves dogs, baseball, and freedom. After meandering spiritually through most of early adulthood, he has rediscovered his faith in midlife and is eager to continue learning about it from the great Christian thinkers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  Michael Schwarz holds a Ph.D. in History and has taught at multiple colleges and universities. He has published one book and numerous essays on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Early U.S. Republic. He loves dogs, baseball, and freedom. After meandering spiritually through most of early adulthood, he has rediscovered his faith in midlife and is eager to continue learning about it from the great Christian thinkers. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary by Michael Schwarz on May 30, 2024 at 10:00 am: Woke progressives, with their race-centered ideologies resembling Marxism, harbor nightmarish ambitions for communities achieved through deceitful means. Notably, in 2021, during her mayoral candidacy, Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston, Massachusetts, endorsed racially influenced criminal justice measures, reflecting a concerning trend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":2255882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Boston-Crime.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Boston-Crime.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2255882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}