Posted on 04/19/2025 7:58:13 AM PDT by Libloather
As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., privately jets across the nation for her "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, residents in her Queens constituency have been calling on the FBI and the DEA to help them crack down on the illegal sex workers and drug dealers that they say have turned their neighborhood into a festering "gangland."
Last week, local leaders, including a former Democrat state senator, wrote to FBI Director Kash Patel urging him to unleash agents to quell the raging problem along Roosevelt Avenue – a 2-mile commercial strip which has been likened to both a Third World Country and a Red Light district – where scantily-clad women on sidewalks soliciting sex is commonplace.
They also claim the ruthless 18th Street Gang has taken over illegal operations there, filling the void of other gangs like with Tren de Aragua after a massive police operation saw hundreds of people arrested.
That police crackdown, which started in October and was labeled "Operation Restore Roosevelt," saw hundreds of city and state troopers descend on the neighborhood. The NYPD told Fox News Digital that the clampdown has resulted in a 37% year-to-date drop in crime in the Roosevelt Avenue zone with more than 1,800 arrests and more than 15,000 summonses.
Residents and local activists heaped praise on New York City Mayor Eric Adams after he spearheaded the aggressive 90-day police blitz.
But locals say the blitz was short-lived and bars have been turned into makeshift brothels where a dance can easily be negotiated into sex in dingy rooms downstairs. Many of the sex workers are migrants, the leaders said.
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There's more. From September -
AOC’s ‘red light’ district overrun with prostitutes as locals call out MIA ‘Squad’ member
Call your congress critter.
The ex-barmaid should take a hand in curbing this crime.
Or she may already have a hand in.
AOC is having way too much traveling and getting Fat to worry about the Little People
They voted for her.
Too bad.
So now the left is wondering what Kash is up to too?
Looks like Kash will be going up against the DemocRAT homosexuals.
Where are the local police?
However, they will still support AOC.
Hire more police.
Why is it someone else’s problem for them to fix? Fix it yourself. You’re the ones who allowed it to get this bad with your soft on crime stance.
Sheesh, what did they think would happen?
So...the local law enforcement agencies make it work, once.
But, now they want to make demands of Federal law enforcement?
Turn your locals loose, again. Piss away your own money.
If they think it’s bad now just wait until democrats use the Garcia case to bring back all the gangbangers and then set them free in minority communities.
**However, they will still support AOC.**
Go for it. Just make it on the condition she openly supports it. Put the ball in her court.
It would be better if a group of church goers sang around those girls.
Queens. Isn’t that Trump’s neighborhood?
AOC used to work that street.
FBI?
This is a local PD job.
Bingo. There's a bean counter at an accounting firm, with a contract for New York City, salivating at the chance to bill taxpayers outside of New York City for this effort.
Screw them. They want to be a "sanctuary city"? Let them pay for it.
If there were no customers there, there wouldn’t be any prostitutes either.
Keep electing a Ho to Congress.
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