Ocasio-Cortez: Skyrocketing Crime in NYC is Just People Trying to Feed Their Hungry Kids

Yeah, sure:

I seem to recall, during the widespread looting in June, lots of stolen big-screen TVs and smashed-up Nike stores.

Not many loaves of bread and cartons of eggs.

At what point did Democrat politicians decide that crime is fine and that criminals are actually the Real Victims?

See, this is why we have broken into Two Americas. There’s no common ground anymore. We can’t even agree that crime is bad and must be stopped, because apparently the standard position of the Democratic Party is now that enforcing the law is Racist.

New York City was an absolute warzone from the 1970s until the early 1990s. At its peak in 1990, it saw over 2,300 murders a year:

For perspective on just how dangerous NYC was at its worst point, consider that in 2019, there were only four cities in the world that had over 2,000 murders per year:

30 years ago, New York City was arguably the most dangerous place on earth. As you can see from the chart above, Mayor Rudy Giuliani instituted the stop and frisk policy, which massively reduced not only murder rates but overall violent crime rates in general.

In his short-lived Presidential campaign earlier this year–which for some reason feels like it was years ago instead of months ago–Giuliani’s successor as NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg tried to downplay his continuation of “stop and frisk,” but a secret recording of him from 2015 indicated he was a big fan of stop-and-frisk:

“In an audio clip of the 2015 speech Bloomberg gave to the Aspen Institute, the billionaire acknowledged that “stop and frisk” targeted minority “kids” whom cops must throw “up against the wall” to disarm. The Aspen Times reported at the time that Bloomberg representatives asked the Institute not to distribute footage of his appearance.

“Ninety-five percent of murders- murderers and murder victims fit one M.O. You can just take a description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all the cops,” he said. “They are male, minorities, 16-25. That’s true in New York, that’s true in virtually every city (inaudible). And that’s where the real crime is. You’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of people that are getting killed.”

Stop-and-frisk worked. It dramatically reduced crime in NYC. And yet Bloomberg’s successor, Bill de Blasio (aka Warren Wilhelm) ended the stop and frisk policy because it was “disproportionately targeting minorities.”

It was also responsible for lowering crime rates in the city significantly. But I guess it’s racist to aggressively fight crime if most of the criminals are minorities.

And that’s the problem: Democrats would rather have high crime rates than adopt policies that are honest about what is needed to fight crime.

We’re not a country anymore. We can’t even agree that crime is bad.

At some point, America apparently became a suicide pact: we now have to share a country with people who would rather have sky-high murder rates than arrest the young minorities who more often than not commit those murders.

Even mentioning the fact of who commits the murders is taboo nowadays.

People like Ocasio would rather make excuses for why criminals are actually noble heroes than crack down on the crime wave.

It’s not like this country doesn’t have the ability to get crime under control. We’re not like Mexico where the cartels are more powerful than the government.

Law enforcement could have this country under control in a week if they weren’t hindered by Democrats. Take CHAZ, for example: the police riot unit could have rolled in there and gotten that under control in a half-hour if they were just allowed to do so.

But they weren’t allowed to, so CHAZ stuck around for a few weeks.

We have simply chosen not to fight crime because Democrats will say That’s Racist.

They are going to be the death of us all, and I don’t want to share a country with them anymore. I want off the ride.

If they would rather be murdered than called Racist! then let them. But don’t consign the rest of us to that fate.