{"id":26496,"date":"2020-07-13T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/wh-says-aoc-claim-that-economic-crisis-causing-crime-wave-is-preposterous\/"},"modified":"2020-07-13T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T19:30:00","slug":"wh-says-aoc-claim-that-economic-crisis-causing-crime-wave-is-preposterous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wh-says-aoc-claim-that-economic-crisis-causing-crime-wave-is-preposterous\/","title":{"rendered":"#WH says AOC claim that economic crisis causing crime wave is \u2018preposterous\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#WH says AOC claim that economic crisis causing crime wave is \u2018preposterous\u2019<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doubled down Monday on her claim that record unemployment and economic woes caused by the coronavirus pandemic are fueling an increase in violent crime in New York City \u2014 a theory the White House mocked as \u201cpreposterous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think that even when you talk about violent crime, I don\u2019t think that poverty and economic desperation are separate from that either,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said during a campaign-sponsored food distribution event for the needy event outside Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Corona, Queens.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people do not have opportunities, I can tell you from my personal experience and what I saw growing up. When families don\u2019t have money, a lot of times young people and teens that feel like they need to support their mom, sometimes they\u2019ll turn to selling drugs, which can then lead to an escalated level of trouble, to what police label as gang activity,\u201d the Bronx native said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the idea that violent crime is somehow immune, or totally separated, from the economic situation that people are going through right now, I think that\u2019s mistaken. It\u2019s true. The desperation, even if we\u2019re not talking about petty theft, there is a ladder that escalates into violent crime that is very much connected to the economic situation of a given community.\u201d<\/p>\n

AOC first raised her \u201cLes Miserables\u201d-like theory of economic desperation triggering crime\u00a0 \u2014 instead of cuts to the NYPD \u2014 during a virtual town hall meeting last Thursday.<\/p>\n

She gave an example of what economic desperation can do, citing a single mom with several kids.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou have a teenage son that feels like he needs to support her. He starts selling drugs so that he can support his parents. This is a very common story here in New York, and then once you get into that area of selling drugs, then that could entangle you in violent situations with suppliers and so on,\u201d the first-term congresswoman said.<\/p>\n

The Democratic Social<\/a>ist firebrand pointed to the \u201cthe emotional pressure, anger, venting that happ<\/a>ens with the desperation that is happening right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also noted that a quarter of New Yorkers were unable to make their rent payments in recent months.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s not just theft or non-violent crime that can be connected to that. That also has implications on violent crime,\u201d AOC said.<\/p>\n

But President Trump\u2019s spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany slammed AOC for trying to make economic conditions the culprit for the rise in violent crime, and blamed the congresswoman and other lefty progressives for taking actions to gut police enforcement and demonize cops.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have, most egregious of all, really, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saying defund the police means defund the police. She criticized of course the announcement of $1.5 billion being taken down from NYPD [that the cut wasn\u2019t enough],\u201d McEnany told reporters at the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd this weekend, when faced with 28 shootings in New York, a 600% increase from this time last year, you have Rep. Ocasio-Cortez saying this is just because people are trying to get food with their families,\u201d McEnany said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is preposterous,\u201d the Trump spokeswoman said a press briefing.<\/p>\n

McEnany continued,\u00a0 \u201cThe reality is 63 percent of Americans in this country fear that criticism of our police departments will lead to no public safety in their streets. And 69% of black Americans. This is a real issue when you call our police cancer, when you talk about dismantling them. And then this weekend in New York, you see a one year old killed in his stroller. His name was Davelle Gardner Jr and that one year old will be in our prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump spokeswoman then referenced the ambush killing of two police officer in McAllen, Texas \u2014 Ismael Chavez and Edelmiro Garza, and how Chavez\u2019s daughter, Savannah, was ridiculed by some on Twitter for saying \u201cblue lives matter\u201d when posting a tribute to her father.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI know she received vile and outrageous comments online that were absolutely atrocious for her touching sentiment to her dad. I want Savannah to know your dad is a hero. His police department should never be defunded because most of our police officers are good, hard working men and women and heroes, much like Savannah\u2019s dad. We will be praying for you, Savannah,\u201d McEnany said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, during her campaign event, AOC cited a scaling back of the city\u2019s summer youth employment program for teen-agers could cause crime problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you cut summer jobs for teens, then they\u2019re out in the street during summertime with nothing to do all day. That creates a situation that can be untenable. And so we need to have an whole-picture approach. If we just think that policing or not policing is the direct connection with crime, you\u2019re going to get it wrong\u2026.We have to make sure that people have economic opportunities, that they have social opportunities, and that also, even in this uptick in violent crime, that we are not putting people into a lifetime of incarceral.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere AOC disputed that claims that the NYPD\u2019s elimination of its plain clothes anti-crime unit is triggering a jump in violent shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach precinct has a detective, they have investigatory units. There\u2019s not just the anti-crime unit that is responsible for gun investigations and other shootings,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

AOC easily won her Democratic primary election last month against rivals that included business journalist Michelle Caruso-Cabrera.<\/p>\n

She faces Republican John Cummings, an ex-cop and teacher, in the general<\/a> election for the 14th congressional district that takes in portions of Queens and The Bronx.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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