AOC Outdoes Herself With Crackpot Plan
The more you learn about AOC, the more you have to question just how did she get elected? It makes you want to start performing IQ tests on politicians. This time she made the insane comment that we need to get rid of our jails as if they are the root cause of crime...
AOC's ridiculous reasoning.
“If we want to reduce violent crime, if we want to reduce the number of people in our jails, the answer is to stop building more of them,'” Ocasio-Cortez said during a Bronx event Thursday.
“The answer is to make sure that we actually build more hospitals, we pay organizers, we get people mental health care and overall health care, employment, etc. It’s to support communities, not throw them away.”
The New York Rep. slammed jails as “garbage bins” for people who are actually suffering from mental health issues.
“When you actually open a door to a jail and look at who is inside an enormous amount of people are dealing with untreated mental health issues,” she said.
“It is not acceptable for us to use jails as garbage bins for human beings. We need to treat people and so it is not a place for us to throw people for whom we do not want to invest in the actual holistic issues of their lives.”
First off jails/prisons do not create criminals. You have to "earn" admission by committing a crime worthy of being confined. After a judge and a jury of your peers come up with the sentence you serve. So getting rid of jails/prisons is not going to stop crime. In fact, it would just allow criminals to roam the streets or be put into asylums. But AOC is touching on something that many Dems refuse to admit especially when it comes to mass shootings. We do very much have a mental illness problem in this country. If only she would understand this when we have the shootings as opposed to blaming guns.