Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is helping drive the far Left turn by Democrats.
Her party is starting to pay the price for her extremist agenda.
And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was scared after this big lie she told was exposed.
Defunding the police backfires on Democrats in a big way
The death of George Floyd in the spring of 2020 led the Democrat Party to declare war on the police.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was one of the ringleaders of the “Defund the Police” movement that launched in the summer of 2020.
The police were blamed for all of society’s ills and supporters of slashing their budgets claimed that crime wouldn’t rise if funding was redirected to social services.
Crime surged during Joe Biden’s Presidency after police departments in major cities pulled back and had their budgets cut.
This disaster played out in Democrat-controlled cities across the country.
Crime statistician Jeff Anderson – who served as the Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics in the Trump administration – blamed a surging crime in urban areas on the policies of Democrats.
The Justice Department’s National Crime Victimization Survey found that the number of violent crime victims in cities jumped by 40% from 2019 to 2023.
If the simple assault is excluded, that number climbs to 54% during that time period.
Anderson pointed to the “defund police movement” and pro-crime prosecutors who let criminals off with a slap on the wrist from the rising crime in cities.
“They’ve adopted a very constrained view of policing, and they decided to rerun the experiments of years ago about what happens if we go soft on crime — I think we’re seeing the result,” Anderson explained.
The National Crime Victimization Survey was conducted with the help of the Census Bureau, which surveyed nearly 250,000 Americans.
45% of people surveyed didn’t report their crimes to the police, which was consistent with what Anderson saw during his time at the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Democrats and the media tried to hide rising crime
The Biden-Harris administration tried to hide the rise in crime to help Vice President Kamala Harris’ Presidential campaign.
Former President Donald Trump was “fact-checked” during the September Presidential debate by ABC News moderator David Muir for speaking the truth that crime jumped under Kamala.
Muir and his allies in the Democrat Party cited the FBI’s annual Crime in the Nation Statistics that falsely claimed that violent crime was down three percent from 2022 to 2023.
President Joe Biden used the data to boast about his record on crime.
“These record decreases follow the historic declines in crime in 2023, including the largest-ever decrease in the homicide rate,” Biden said. “Communities across our country are safer now than when I took office.”
But the FBI was cooking the books to help Democrats politically.
Crime Prevention Research Center expert John Lott noted that the FBI revised its data after the fact to show an increase in crime.
Initial data from the FBI claimed that crime dropped by 1.7% from 2021 to 2022, but that figure was changed to show a 4.5% jump in crime.
“We can see from the NCVS that there is this massive crime spike in urban areas,” Anderson said. “The press is busy reporting this 3% drop in crime from the FBI, and that’s just an estimate that is by no means exact, and they’re ignoring a 40% increase in violent crime. That’s a huge change.”
The bottom line is, Democrats created a nationwide crime wave from their disastrous policies.
