By Since Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first took office in 2019, major crime across her 14th Congressional District has soared by 70 percent—a spike that far outpaces the citywide increase of 30 percent over the same period, according to NYPD data. In some parts of the Queens-Bronx district, the numbers are even worse. And for many of the congresswoman’s constituents, the more staggering figure is zero—the number of times they say they’ve seen AOC show up to confront the crisis.
Nowhere is the explosion in lawlessness more stark than in Queens’ 110th Precinct, home to the Roosevelt Avenue corridor, a long-troubled stretch linked to organized prostitution and human trafficking. There, major index crimes—ranging from murder and rape to burglary and grand larceny—have risen by 105 percent, the highest jump in any precinct citywide. The 115th Precinct, encompassing Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst, has seen an 85 percent increase. Other precincts across the district are experiencing crime growth well above city averages, leaving residents feeling abandoned by their representative, writes The New York Post.
Some residents blamed the increasingly lawlessness squarely on the no-show lawmaker.
“She’s not doing s–t. She doesn’t live in the neighborhood, she doesn’t care,” vented Elmhurst resident Guadelupe Alvarez, who has lived in the 110th Precinct her whole life and is one of several constituents who ripped the jet-setting absentee “Squad” member for letting the district turn to “trash” while she focuses on elevating herself on the national stage.
Alvarez, 34, a former AOC supporter, has had to endure a brothel setting up across the street from her childhood home, and the drunken men she says constantly swarm in and out of the place. She said she also regularly witnesses gang activity, car thefts and assaults, but nothing gets done.
She used to dream of building a life in the neighborhood, but not anymore.
“I can’t wait to get – pardon my language – the f–k out of here. It makes me so sad that they’ve done that to push me out of my neighborhood. And I’m not the only one. . . . I could never have a family here.”
Critics say the congresswoman’s ideological hostility to policing is part of the problem, noted The Daily Caller. During the height of the “defund the police” movement in 2020, AOC dismissed a proposed $1.5 billion cut to the NYPD as insufficient, claiming crime and policing were unrelated. A year later, she brushed off concerns over rising violence as “hysteria.” And in 2023, she voted against a House resolution condemning anti-police efforts.
According to Hannah Meyers of the Manhattan Institute, such rhetoric has compounded the NYPD’s recruitment crisis, leaving neighborhoods like AOC’s with fewer officers to respond to growing threats. “Her anti-police stance has made it harder to keep communities safe,” Meyers told The Post, noting the irony that most victims in the district are Black or Hispanic—populations AOC claims to represent.
The NYPD data in question tracks seven major felony offenses in the precincts that have remained consistently within Ocasio-Cortez’s district boundaries since 2019, including the 43rd and 45th in the Bronx, and the 109th, 110th, 114th, and 115th in Queens. As crime escalates and confidence in local leadership erodes, residents are left asking a simple question: Where is AOC?
The answer is simple. She wants a bigger job—and she’s already been auditioning for it.
While crime surges in her own backyard, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been barnstorming the West with Bernie Sanders on a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, drawing massive crowds and glowing headlines. The pair recently hit Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado, with Sanders aides touting a record-setting 34,000-person rally in Denver. The events are being hailed by progressives as a symbolic passing of the torch, with The New York Times declaring Ocasio-Cortez the clear favorite to lead the movement into a “post-Sanders era.”
She hasn’t announced a presidential bid—but few in Washington doubt it’s coming.
If Sanders once stood for old-school leftist populism—skeptical of censorship, respectful of civil liberties—Ocasio-Cortez represents a newer, more hard-edged progressive politics. She’s called for suppressing “misinformation,” derided Christian-themed Super Bowl ads as “fascist,” and even floated the idea last summer that Donald Trump planned to jail her. All while crime in her own district reached record highs and residents begged for help she never delivered.
She may want the national spotlight. But back home, voters are living with the consequences of her absence.
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