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Home Front: Politix
AOC calls for police to be DEFUNDED to pay for homeless shelters
2021-12-25
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] In the tweet, Bill Bratton - who worked under outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio - showed several homeless people sleeping on a subway train

  • AOC joined many on the left in slamming Bratton for insensitivity to homeless people and pointing out how much of the city's budget the police takes up

  • The second-term Congresswoman has vigorously fought for the 'defund' movement

  • Ocasio-Cortez said in June 2020 she's 'actively engaged in advocacy' for a 'reduction of our NYPD budget and defunding a $6billion NYPD budget

  • AOC has also supported several other policy solutions for police reform, including an end to qualified immunity that shields officers from legal accountability

  • The NYPD's budget is set to rise again from $5.22billion to $5.43billion in 2022
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Posted by:Fred

#9  As the progressivists wish, you could spend every $ from national defense and policing on social programs - You'd still have homelessness, drug abuse, gang violence, drug abuse, and teh assorted ills. People will be what they will be
Posted by: Frank G   2021-12-25 16:23  

#8  I wonder how much money has been spent on homelessness over the years? Nothing but more homeless people. Guess she know a few "communtiy organizers".
Posted by: Chris   2021-12-25 16:07  

#7  A rhetorical question - will she be giving up her private security detail?
Posted by: Raj   2021-12-25 15:40  

#6  

Graft what you need off AOC, she ain't using her head, nor ponytail.
Posted by: Jumbo Glolulet1033   2021-12-25 12:55  

#5  Until constituencies that elect creatures like this can be punished by the rest of us, it will continue, and get even worse.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-12-25 11:50  

#4  Even after getting a college degree she couldn't get a job outside of a bartender. Credentials of a socialist deadbeat.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-12-25 11:45  

#3  They funded a 'tiny village' in Albuquerque for the homeless. "They built it and no one came". Seems they prefer to live without restrictions (like drugs/alcohol). People like AOC don't understand that these are only 'victims' of their own making and the vast majority don't want to change.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-12-25 07:55  

#2  Ripe for another commie-carjacking. Philly, Chicago, DC? Third time's a charm
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-12-25 04:17  

#1  

Lets use AOC's house congressional budget instead.
Posted by: NN2N1   2021-12-25 04:14  

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