AOC Pans Crime Surge Fears as 'Hysteria,' Still Backs Defunding Police
27 Jun 2021 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) doubled down on defunding police this week, asserting the crime surge is just “hysteria” and that making “responsible decisions about what [funds] to allocate” away from police departments is “important.” “We are seeing these headlines about percentage increases,” she explained about a recent New York Times headline about surging crime: Now, I want to say that any amount of harm is unacceptable and too much. But I also want to make sure that this hysteria, you know, that this doesn’t drive a hysteria and that we look at these...