Via Insty:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said New York City’s proposed $1 billion cut from the police department budget tiptoes around demands from activists who are asking for a reduced police presence.
Though the plan proposed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) cuts one-sixth of the New York Police Department (NYPD) budget, activists note that much of it would be transferred to other city departments, including the Department of Education, where it could pay for police in schools. Activists have advocated for removing officers from schools altogether.
“Defunding police means defunding police,” the congresswoman said in a statement. “It does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education’s budget so the exact same police remain in schools.”
—The Hill, June 30th, 2020, at the height of left’s riot, arson, and looting season.
How it’s going: The Fruits of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Labors: A 70% increase in Violent Crime in Her District.
Last year, AOC was hoping to be named to the top spot on the powerful Oversight Committee. Pelosi blocked her ascension, proving to AOC that moving up in the Democratic Party will be harder than she thought.
Through all of this political maneuvering to further her career, AOC has forgotten the people who got her to where she is: her long-suffering constituents. From 2019 to 2025, murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny and auto theft have jumped 70%.
You might claim that a congresswoman’s actions or inactions have little to do with the crime rate. That would be true if AOC hadn’t been a prominent voice in the “Defund the Police” movement.
“The 115th Precinct, which also serves part of Roosevelt Avenue in addition to Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst, and north Corona, saw major offenses rise by 85%” reports the New York Post.
Ocasio-Cortez’s district takes in two police districts that are among the worst in the city. And some residents are pointing the finger at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“She’s not doing shit. She doesn’t live in the neighborhood, she doesn’t care,” said Elmhurst resident Guadelupe Alvarez, who has lived in the neighborhood her entire life.
Here’s a quick question for “Elmhurst resident Guadelupe Alvarez”:
Did you vote for AOC in the past couple/three elections?
If you did, then you got what you wanted.
If you didn’t, then all the other people who did are also getting what they deserve*.
Vote for Commies, get government run according to Communist principles.
Tell your sob story to someone who cares.
*Or, as H.L. Mencken once put it: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
