AOC urged MTA not to hire more officers in 2019, saying it wouldn’t ‘create a safer environment’
April 16, 2022 | Ashley Hill
In light of the recent subway shooting in New York City, a 2019 letter from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and other progressives calling to defund the police has been put in the spotlight.
Multiple signatories to the letter continue to “stand by” the original letter urging then Gov. Andrew Cuomo to abandon a plan to put 500 more officers in the subway despite the many people who believe that more police in the subway system could have prevented the crisis.
“Punishing the poor does not create a safer environment. Instead it threatens the very foundation of our community. That is why my New York colleagues and I wrote a letter to @NYGovCuomo asking him to help put an end to MTA’s dangerous policing policy,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter along with a photo of the letter in Dec 2019.
https://twitter.com/RepAOC/status/1206993080156602371more
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/04/16/aoc-urged-mta-not-to-hire-more-officers-in-2019-saying-it-wouldnt-create-a-safer-environment-1226649/
