AOC REFUSED To Allow More Cops On The Subway

Written By BlabberBuzz | Monday, 18 April 2022 04:45 PM
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AOC REFUSED To Allow More Cops On The Subway

A 2019 letter signed by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that rejected the MTA's plan at the time to employ 500 more NYPD cops to patrol the subway system has reappeared, as transit crimes surge and the city suffers the aftermath of a subway shooting that saw 10 wounded this week.

At the time, Ocasio-Cortez and several fellow progressives fervently opposed an MTA plan to hire new cops to patrol the subways.

Now, the letter is coming under scrutiny following a shooting rampage in a Brooklyn subway that left at least 30 injured and caused widespread panic in its wake last week.

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"In our view, desperately needed resources would be better invested in subway, bus, maintenance and service improvements," the letter reads. "We are urging the MTA to divest from this current model of criminalization."

The letter claimed that "communities of color" would be unfairly targeted by the new officers.

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At the time, Ocasio-Cortez also posted the letter on Twitter, writing: "Punishing the poor does not create a safer environment. Instead, it threatens the very foundation of our community.

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"That is why my New York colleagues and I wrote a letter to [New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo] asking him to help put an end to MTA's dangerous policing policy."

The letter - which was also signed by Upper West Side Rep. Jerry Nadler and former Bronx Rep. Jose Serrano, as well as State Sens. Michael Gianaris, Luis Sepulveda, Jessica Ramos, Julia Salazar and Alessandra Biaggi - cautioned the "historic racial disparities in enforcement."

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Meanwhile, the number of crimes in the subway has increased 55 percent from the same period last year, according to data.

In 2020, Ocasio-Cortez joined other top progressive Democrats in supporting a growing movement to defund police departments in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

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The congresswoman from the Bronx has shown support for policy solutions to fight police brutality and racial injustice.

Ocasio-Cortez had said she's "actively engaged in advocacy" for a "reduction of our NYPD budget and defunding a $6 billion NYPD budget that costs us books in the hands of our children and costs us very badly needed investment in NYCHA [New York City Housing Authority] and public housing."

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As of last week, workday ridership on the subway is still at about 60 percent of what it was before the beginning of the pandemic in March of 2020 with 3.3 million riders using the system.

In March alone, the number of crimes in the subway jumped 55 percent, from the same period last year, according to the latest NYPD statistics. There were 180 crimes reported in March of this year compared to 118 crimes for 2021.

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