She’s very clear on this, defund the police. In her mind police are doing more harm than good and that money would better spent on schools and other community programs as well. Not sure who is going to actually enforce laws in her naive world. I guess she assumes that when the cops are gone everyone will magically become 100% law abiding citizens.
During this discussion many people have been talking about what Camden NJ did. And what they did is not what the likes of AOC and the people who are protesting are calling for.
Minneapolis defunded their police, and are now trying to re-fund them after crime spiked.
Seattle tried that little experiment with their ‘CHAZ’ zone, and crime basically tripled.
Then there is the experiment that is the bankrupt city of Detroit, where crime goes up every year. Yeah, they defunded their police too.
But what about Camden, NJ? If you actually read up on that story, they basically did some Scott Walker-esque union busting, and were able to almost double the size of the police force there. Nothing says defunded like increasing the size of the police force from 200 to 380 police officers.
I don’t think we need to study this anymore. The verdict is in, and AOC is nuts.