The wave of violent crime in U.S. cities continued this weekend with a reported 22 shootings in New York, including one in which an infant was fatally shot late Sunday night in a Brooklyn playground. At least 28 people were wounded in the weekend shootings in New York.
So what or who is to blame for this sudden surge in violence?
As RealClearPolitics.com's Tim Hains reports, during a virtual town hall on Thursday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez opined about the causes of a wave of crime in New York City:
REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: I think there is something about this uptick in crime -- Let me make something super clear for everyone: The New York City Police Department has not been defunded, even with these budgetary changes that were proposed in the city council.
A.) They’re not fully enacted.
B.) They aren’t a real $1 billion in cuts.
C.) These cuts aren’t really real.
And again, they haven’t even happened yet. Keep in mind that this uptick in crime that is happening right now -- this is with a $6 billion annual police budget. So our $6 billion budget has not prevented this uptick in crime.
We have shoved more and more money every year into the NYPD -- $6 billion. And it has not prevented this uptick in crime. But let's back up: Why is this uptick in crime happening? The NYPD themselves have told a story that is disproven by their own data. They said it was because of bail reform... But they just released data a few weeks ago that among everyone who committed crimes, almost none have been re-released by the bail reform...
Do we think this has to do with the fact that there’s record unemployment in the United States right now?
The fact that people are at a level of economic desperation that we have not seen since the Great Recession?
Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren't paying their rent and are scared to pay their rent and so they go out, and they need to feed their child and they don't have money so ... they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry.
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15 comments:
Isn't it amazing that AOC's brain - or whatever passes for it - can even generate enough power to keep its vital organs going?
AOC is an illegal alien and she is always playing on the side of the criminal and tying her views to the sympathetic side. Progressives love the Pity Party.
S as gain, not worthy of a comment.
Are they feeding there kids wide screen tv's? I read that the looters wipe out one store, clearing the shelves of everything except sun tan lotion and father's day cards.
Funny how all the looting videos I have seen did not show people stealing food....Nike's and electronics.....no food!
Hey Crazio! Wake up you airhead!
Pelosi may be the biggest bitch in Congress but AOC gets the award for the dumbest. She is so stupid she makes dumb blonde joke targets look like f'ing Einstein!
AOC's is a fountain of maybes.
7:21 Don't forget the work boots. They were untouched also.
Not wasting my time to watch a video of her about anything. She is the one needing food. May I suggest brain food things. Dumb loser.
Damn, her boyfriend isn't takin care of business...if you know what I mean.
In Webster’s Dictionary her picture is right next to idiot description!
Excuse me, Ms AOC - when did shoplifting get renamed to "violent crime" and involve shooting people?
I'll wait...
AOC speaks of criminals stealing bread because they are hungry. Anyone see at Walmart individuals with two overflowing carts that are paid for with Taxpayers money. It's called welfare AOC. Forget the bread they are getting filet mignon. Stop making excuses. Please do not do a phone video again - your eyes scare the hell out of my cat.
She is so full of it! Send this biotch somewhere, anywhere, out of this country that she hates so much.
She flys private from DC to NYC weekly does anyone on here fly in a private jet instead of a 4 hour car ride ?? Crickets. Sandy knows exactly what she is doing and is a MULTI MILLIONAIRE with massive power and armed security and stop hating on her for being Mexican.
I can't speak for everyone else but I can't stand her because she is a nut job moron. Race has nothing to do with it. Can't stand Pelosi either and I have Italian heritage too. Stupidity is not race specific.
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