Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Jordan Neely’s death was the direct result of policy decisions that left him vulnerable to people with a violent hatred of poor people.
, Ocasio-Cortez said. Meanwhile, fear mongering around crime by people like Adams has exacerbated the extremely negative public perception of poor people.
If the Adams administration were truly concerned about increasing public safety, Ocasio-Cortez emphasized, it would use “evidence-based policy” to help the people that it clearly and inhumanely views as a threat, rather than pushing them further into precarity.
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