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In light of the recent subway shooting in New York City, a 2019 letter from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and other progressives calling to defund the police has been put in the spotlight.
Multiple signatories to the letter continue to “stand by” the original letter urging then Gov. Andrew Cuomo to abandon a plan to put 500 more officers in the subway despite the many people who believe that more police in the subway system could have prevented the crisis.
“Punishing the poor does not create a safer environment. Instead it threatens the very foundation of our community. That is why my New York colleagues and I wrote a letter to @NYGovCuomo asking him to help put an end to MTA’s dangerous policing policy,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter along with a photo of the letter in Dec 2019.
Punishing the poor does not create a safer environment. Instead it threatens the very foundation of our community. That is why my New York colleagues and I wrote a letter to @NYGovCuomo asking him to help put an end to MTA’s dangerous policing policy. Check it out here: pic.twitter.com/g1AOWHA7Lh
— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) December 17, 2019
“In our view desperately needed resources would be better invested in subway, bus, maintenance and service improvements,” the leftists wrote. “We are urging the MTA to divest from this current model of criminalization.”
The plea was signed by Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Jerry Nadler, former Rep. Jose Serrano and State Sens. Alessandra Biaggi, Julia Salazar, Michael Gianaris, Luis Sepulveda and Jessica Ramos, among others.
“…we would like to remind you of the historic racial discrepancies in enforcement and the way communities of color, both MTA riders and workers, bear the brunt of over-policing,” the letter said.
Views seem unchanged even in the face of rising subway crimes, including this week’s mass shooting.
“Police budgets have never been higher, and Mayor Adams increased numbers of police in the weeks before the shooting,” Ramos said according to the New York Post. “If we’re going to look back years into the past, let’s look at the austerity that allowed so many people to fall through the cracks.”
Biaggi was also unmoved by the horrific shooting.
“I stand with MTA workers and want to focus police on violent crime against workers and riders, rather than on petty crime. That was the goal of the letter and I stand by it,” she explained.
The Chief Executive Officer for Guardian Angels, a nonprofit dedicated to unarmed crime prevention was on the other side of the fence, arguing that the subway system could use all the cops they can get.
“If you don’t control the method of entrance through the turnstile you lose control of the whole subway system and that’s what happened,” former NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa said. “They need as many cops as they can get and they got to have them all throughout the system.”
There were many people throwing up their arms in despair over the progressive’s continued stance on crime prevention.
She’s literally the voice of the progressive wing of the DNC that lead to all this crime and violence around the country. People voted for this and it’s going to take years to correct.
— Tasty Media ❄️ (@mediachecker) April 16, 2022
We now know the names of the politicians who support this incredibly childish and naive approach to crime in NYC. Vote them out.
— Salvatore DiMaggio (@SalvatoreDiMag2) April 16, 2022
And why is this devil still in congress
— 🇺🇸 LET’S GO BRANDON! FJB! 🇺🇸 (@DJNES1980) April 16, 2022
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21 thoughts on “AOC urged MTA not to hire more officers in 2019, saying it wouldn’t ‘create a safer environment’”
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Throw this useless no nothing bitch to the curb come MD Terms .
For the love of God.
AOC the former bartender who could not make a Rum&Coke without help, is the dumbest person to ever be elected to Congress. Can you imagine how stupid her voters must be???????
I am so tired of these unqualified assholes and poopie pants and all his bandits behind the curtains with the communist,control of the people .
I’m surprised someone has not snapped and confronted them .
Of course AOC doesn’t take the subway so why should she care?
Does this slut have an opponent in Nov?
The fact this dim-witted moron-a former bartender-who needed help making a Rum&Coke, is a US Congresswoman, in a safe district, where she can stay for 40 years – shows how low this country has fallen. Can you imagine how pathetic and stupid her supporters must be??? God help us
I think that can only happen in a DEMOcrat district! I really would like to see if she could actually make a rum and coke without looking up the recipe!! Can you imagine the horror when she discovered that the jigger end called the PONY wasn’t a REAL PONY??
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Take police officers that patrol area’s around those people who signed letter, and have those police officers assigned to the subway! After all, those people don’t see any reason to fear criminal activity. Maybe a firsthand look at what it means to be in fear of a threat will bring some much needed prospective to them. I hope criminal’s find the fool’s that signed letter! Karma helps those people who think they are so much more important than anyone else! Don’t forget to disable the 911 calls coming from those areas as well!
Who listens to what AOC has to say? Everybody knows she isn’t the sharpest knife!
Nice to see her expertise in public safety rivals her expertise in economics.
You have to hand it to AOC. She’s the poster child for, you can’t fix stupid!!!!! Well she and the voters who put her in office.
She is the epitome of an empty-headed left Loonie democrap. Now she has blood on her hands. Maybe she should stick to making whispering videos and videos about make up. Maybe she should be less concerned that all republicans want to sleep with her and concentrate on how to help run the country right. Only in America can a slutty bar tender become a member of congress. Just ask the idiot what a woman is, a biologist she isn’t. She should have become a teacher, but then the students would be in even more danger of being molested. Maybe she could take correspondence courses from Mexico on how to be a congress woman and take care of the country and the people. Loser.
Alexandria Occasionally-Coherent makes suggestions favored my morons and idiots.I won’t say that she is one of them or I might be censored.
Honesty is still the best policy. Rattlesnakes don’t make good house pets!
I lay awake at night worrying if Corky Cortez has enough security, paid for by the taxpayers. If they had to pay for their own security, you’d see strong support from the dems on many, many, more cops. They are so worthless.
So, seems to me the little “see you next Tuesday “ has a good deal of blood on her hands…..again. Yup, keep listening to ignorant douches.
Other then the idiot in the WH, does anyone pay attention to the bar slut?
AOC is a threat to humanity, who should be put away for good and take her funky ugly boyfriend with her
Like most hardcore demonRATS.
Everyone that signed the letter, especially the George ‘the felon and Nazi collaborator’ Soros sponsored airhead AOC really have no idea about what they are talking. I often wonder if the democrats actually have anything between their ears beside sawdust!!