“We are seeing these headlines about percentage increases,” Ocasio-Cortez said during a conversation with New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman over Zoom. “Now, I want to say that any amount of harm is unacceptable and too much, but I also want to make sure that this hysteria, you know, that this doesn’t drive a hysteria and that we look at these numbers in context so that we can make responsible decisions about what to allocate in that context.”
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Ocasio-Cortez argued earlier in June that authorities should stop building prisons and instead focus on underlying public health issues, adding it is “not acceptable” to use jails as “garbage bins.”
“If we want to reduce violent crime, if we want to reduce the number of people in our jails, the answer is to stop building more of them,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “The answer is to make sure that we actually build more hospitals, we pay organizers, we get people mental health care and overall health care, employment, etc. It’s to support communities, not throw them away.”
Ocasio-Cortez, Bowman, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have called on Congress to earmark $400,000 toward a program called “Stand Up To Violence,” which seeks to address gun violence through counseling and community outreach.
Source: AOC dismisses concern over crime spikes in major cities as ‘hysteria’ | Fox News
Thanx for another headzup RE Freakin Trumpsters! The Sixth Sense fearful, “I think I see Black people.” All human decision spring from either love or fear. These white Evangelicals missed the love boat and need some help catching up. Plus they just don’t get it: you get what you pay for and what goes around comes around: build schools that teach cooperation over competition and you get a smart, peaceful society. Build prisons and sell more guns, and you get . . . duh!