From RT.com….
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) thinks she has cracked the code on how to reduce violent crime in America: quit building jails. Social media users were left puzzling over her logic.
“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 on Thursday at a press conference in New York.
The congresswoman’s comments came amid surging violent crime in many of the largest US cities, including her native New York. Ironically, she also was speaking just a few days after a man who had been arrested eight times in the past year – and yet still was allowed to roam free on the streets – sucker-punched an Asian woman as she walked down the sidewalk in New York City’s Chinatown neighborhood. The woman was knocked out and hospitalized with facial injuries.
