Posted on 06/03/2021 6:59:03 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said at a press conference Thursday the U.S. should “stop building” jails if we want to reduce the inmate population.
“It is not acceptable for us to use jails as garbage bins for human beings. We need to treat people and see them as human,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “If we want to reduce violent crime, reduce the number of people in our jails, the answer is to stop building more of them.”
“The answer is to make sure we actually build more hospitals, we pay organizers, we get people mental health care,” she said. “It’s to support communities, not throw them away.”
The press conference took place in New York City with Democrats Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Jamaal Bowman.
Rather than condemning the spike in violent crime across the country, Ocasio-Cortez seemingly romanticized a society with no laws. In the last year, U.S. homicides increased by 33 percent, and 63 of the 66 largest police jurisdictions experienced an uptick in a minimum of one violent crime category.
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Does she have ANY Science to follow on this?
Omg she is just plain dangerous
Of course you can lower incarceration rates if you quit building jails...dummy!!
1 outta 2 ain’t bad ...
>>“The answer is to make sure we actually build more hospitals, we pay organizers, we get people mental health care,” she said.
Her side wanted the mental health facilities cleared which is why there are crazy people on the streets.
Her side said that crazy doesn’t even exist. It’s just society’s way of stamping out other ways of thinking.
Even NOW founder Kate Millett (herself a mental case) spouted this position:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Millett#Mental_illness
Her family claimed that she went for as many as five consecutive nights without sleep and could talk nonsensically for hours. During a screening of one of her films at University of California, Berkeley, Millett “began talking incoherently”. According to her other sister, Mallory Millett-Danaher, “There were pained looks of confusion in the audience, then people whispered and slowly got up to leave.”[42] Sally, who was a law student in Nebraska, signed papers to have her younger sister committed. Millett was forcefully taken and held in psychiatric facilities for ten days. She signed herself out using a release form intended for voluntary admissions. During a visit to St. Paul, Minnesota, a couple of weeks later, her mother asked Kate to visit a psychiatrist and, based upon the psychiatrist’s suggestion, signed commitment papers for Kate. She was released within three days,[19] having won a sanity trial,[51] due to the efforts of her friends and a pro bono attorney.[19]
Following the two involuntary confinements, Millett became depressed, particularly so about having been confined without due process. While in the mental hospitals, she was given “mind-altering” drugs or restrained, depending upon whether she complied or not. She was stigmatized for having been committed and diagnosed with manic depression (now commonly called bipolar disorder). The diagnosis affected how she was perceived by others and her ability to attain employment.[19][29][42] In California doctors had recommended that she take lithium to manage wide manic and depression swings. Her depression became more severe when her housing in the Bowery was condemned and Yoshimura threatened divorce. To manage the depression, Millett again began taking lithium.[19][52]
In 1980, with support of two friends and photojournalist Sophie Keir, Millett stopped taking lithium to improve her mental clarity, relieve diarrhea and hand tremors, and better uphold her philosophies about mental health and treatment. She began to feel alienated and was “snappish” as Keir watched for behavioral changes.[19] Her behavior was that of psychiatric drug withdrawal, including “mile-a-minute” speech, which turned her peaceful art colony to “a quarrelsome dystopia.”[47] Mallory Millett, having talked to Keir, tried to get her committed but was unsuccessful due to New York’s laws concerning involuntary commitments.[19]
Millett visited Ireland in the fall of 1980 as an activist. Upon her intended return to the United States, there was a delay at the airport and she extended her stay in Ireland. She was involuntarily committed in Ireland after airport security “determined from someone in New York” that she had a “mental illness” and had stopped taking lithium.[19] While confined, she was heavily drugged. To combat the aggressive pharmaceutical program of “the worst bin of all”, she counteracted the effects of Thorazine and lithium by eating a lot of oranges or hid the pills in her mouth for later disposal. She said of the times when she was committed, “To remain sane in a bin is to defy its definition,” she said.[47]
[Millett] describes with loathing the days of television-induced boredom, nights of drug-induced terror, people deprived of a sense of time, of personal dignity, even of hope. What crime justifies being locked up like this, Millett asks. How can one not be crazy in such a place?
— Journalist Mary O’Connell[53]
After several days, she was found by her friend Margaretta D’Arcy. With the assistance of an Irish parliament member and a therapist-psychiatrist from Dublin, Millett was declared competent and released[19] within several weeks.[53] She returned to the United States, became severely depressed, and began taking lithium again. In 1986, Millett stopped taking lithium without adverse reactions. After one lithium-free year, Millett announced the news to stunned family and friends.[19]
Millett’s involvement with psychiatry caused her to attempt suicide several times due to both damaging physical and emotional effects but also because of the slanderous nature of psychiatric labeling that affected her reputation and threatened her very existence in the world.[54] She believed that her depression was due to grief and feeling broken. She said, “When you have been told that your mind is unsound, there is a kind of despair that takes over...”[19] In The Loony Bin Trip, Millett wrote that she dreaded her depressed periods:
At one point, listening to others talk about her “freaking out,” Millett muses, “How little weight my own perceptions seem to have,” and goes on: “Depression is the victim’s dread, not mania. For we could enjoy mania if we were permitted by the others around us ... A manic person permitted to think ten thousand miles a minute is happy and harmless and could, if encouraged and given time, perhaps be productive as well. Ah, but depression – that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks ... they rather welcome it: You are quiet and you suffer.[53]
Views on mental illness
Millett disputed diagnoses and labels like manic depression (bipolar disorder) and schizophrenia, which she claimed are placed upon people who exhibit socially unacceptable behavior. “Many healthy people, she said, are ‘driven to mental illness’ by society’s disapproval and by the ‘authoritarian institution of psychiatry.’[42] She attributed her own depression to her diagnosis, and not the other way around, writing, “When you have been told that your mind is unsound, there is a kind of despair that takes over”.[19] Millett documented her experiences in the book The Loony Bin Trip (1990).[29]
Feminist author and historian Marilyn Yalom wrote that “Millett refuses the labels that would declare her insane”, continuing “she conveys the paranoid terror of being judged cruelly by others for what seems to the afflicted person to be a reasonable act.”[47]
I can do that too. People will stop dying if we stop building cemeteries. Too bad it will never work.
That's her solution. Mine is capital punishment. Lower the threshold for the death penalty, make it quick, and clear out half the prison population.
And we can reduce hospitalizations if we stop building hospitals.
AOC is absolutely brain dead!
She needs to stay in the House forever. Her stupidity knows no bounds.
She’s a gigantor window into the insane, feeble minds of those on the Left. She is the embodiment of what every Leftist, that has spent their lives on college campuses and hipster neighborhoods all across the country, thinks.
She is a national treasure. An insane and incredibly dumb one, but a national treasure nonetheless.
If we tear down hospitals and urgent care facilities will people stop getting sick?
I’m one of the people here who agrees with some FReeper who said “Build more prisons. That is the one thing I think is worth my tax money.” I forgot their screenname.
Also make fewer delays and fewer appeals possible for the convicted murderers. Ok, 0.1% are found innocent by dna. So do the damn dna the first months, not 25 years of waiting later. Quick executions will cause a drop in crime even though the liberals always found some statistics against it. Once the killer is dead he is discouraged strongly from killing more people.
Yep and worse, so are the idiots that keep her there!
Only if she can ride on a rainbow pony on a magic carpet will I believe any of her asinine theories.
That she was elected and then reelected says much about the decline of our country.
So we can drop death rates by building fewer cemeteries?
With AOC logic anything is possible!
She embodies the credo “If you can’t blind them with brilliance, baffle them with bullsh*t.”
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