AOC: We Can Reduce Violent Crime And Lower Incarceration Rates If We Stop Building Jails

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NOTE: Schumer nods in agreement.

New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said at a press conference Thursday the U.S. should "stop building" jails if we want to reduce the inmate population.
"It is not acceptable for us to use jails as garbage bins for human beings. We need to treat people and see them as human," Ocasio-Cortez said. "If we want to reduce violent crime, reduce the number of people in our jails, the answer is to stop building more of them."

"The answer is to make sure we actually build more hospitals, we pay organizers, we get people mental health care," she said. "It's to support communities, not throw them away."
 
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Our prison population expands to over-fill as many jails as are available while crime seems to never be negatively affected at all. There has to be a better way.
 
The brains and moral compass of the Democratic Party.


New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said at a press conference Thursday the U.S. should "stop building" jails if we want to reduce the inmate population.
"It is not acceptable for us to use jails as garbage bins for human beings. We need to treat people and see them as human," Ocasio-Cortez said. "If we want to reduce violent crime, reduce the number of people in our jails, the answer is to stop building more of them."

"The answer is to make sure we actually build more hospitals, we pay organizers, we get people mental health care," she said. "It's to support communities, not throw them away."

Worked like a champ in El Salvador
 
The criminal stalinists leftists like crime. Thats why they defund cops and let cool rapists and murderers out with no bail. Plus they like importing rapists and murderers from south of the border. In a way i agree with the dems. If a crook like Biden can be free why cant everyone?
 
Senorita Cortez and others of like mind forget the observations of their hallowed leader Sleepy Joe.

To paraphrase, Mr. Biden observed that only a handful of what he called "super predators" committed a disproportionate share of the crimes. If you take them off the street for extended periods, you can really reduce the crime rate.

That's what they did, and the stats showed the strategery worked. The crime rate fell precipitously from then until the rise of BLM and the idea the young , black males are Sacred Cows who could not be questioned.
 
Our prison population expands to over-fill as many jails as are available while crime seems to never be negatively affected at all. There has to be a better way.
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Sweetie ... If we sent you to a place like Ledbetter Heights with a backpack, a pen and a notebook ...
Well ... I'd be interested in seeing what they would do to you.

Give it a shot Hero ... :thup:

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Our prison population expands to over-fill as many jails as are available while crime seems to never be negatively affected at all. There has to be a better way.

Putting criminals in jail doesnt affect crime rates?

huh?

Give us stats to back up your absurd allegations.
Because they keep letting them out.


Its not just that.

Hollywood and the Left keeps celebrating the Criminal element. From "gangsta rap" where crooners glorify the life of crime to the fact that guys like George Floyd with a rap sheet a mile long get a bigger funeral and more eulogies than do Presidents or Popes, encourages young people to pursue that lifestyle.
 
The problem with our so called criminal justice system is that we lock up the wrong people.

In fact most people in prisons right now have not yet been convicted of any crime and are just waiting for their trials because bail is excessive for even petty crimes.

Instead of concentrating on violent criminals we have opted for a justice system that relies on petty drug and property crimes and a revolving door policy
 

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