The Left’s war on anti-crime tech

Xavier Bautista grew up in the largely working-class black and Latino community of The Port in Cambridge, Mass. During his life, Xavier watched as an influx of Harvard and MIT students and faculty dramatically transformed The Port, gentrifying what had been one of the city’s last affordable neighborhoods. Even with these changes, Xavier remained deeply connected to the area. He enjoyed taking his own 5-year-old son to the same playground he had the run of when he was a boy. Then, in the early-morning hours of July 4, masked gunmen allegedly shot Bautista, just off that same park, as he was beginning his shift as an employee of the city’s Department of Public Works. He remained lying on the pavement for more than an hour before a passerby discovered him. By the time emergency services arriv