Why many black voters don’t blame Hillary for tough-on-crime laws

BOSTON — When Jorge Martinez first arrived in Boston to start community organizing, he dropped into some of the city’s poorest – and predominantly nonwhite – neighborhoods, which had been plagued by poverty, drug use, and violent crime for years. It was the early 1990s, and he says he was ready “to change the world.”

“I said I was going to deal with open-air drug dealing, open-air alcohol drinking, gang activity,” he recalls.

One of his first acts as an organizer for Project RIGHT, a community group that promotes public safety and economic development, was to organize a community meeting in Roxbury around gang activity. In a neighborhood of 59,000 people, five women came. Within minutes, one of them was crying…

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