AOC’s District Sees 70% Crime Surge — Furious Residents Say She’s Abandoned Them

While Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tours the country pushing socialist talking points and railing against law enforcement, her own congressional district is overrun by crime — and her constituents say they have had enough.

Since AOC took office in 2019, major crime in her Queens and Bronx district has skyrocketed by a staggering 70%, more than double the 30% increase citywide, according to NYPD data analyzed by the New York Post. In some precincts, like the 110th in Queens, the increase is even more alarming — 105% since AOC assumed office.

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Residents say the surge isn’t just numbers — it’s their everyday reality.

“She’s not doing s–t. She doesn’t live in the neighborhood, she doesn’t care,” Guadelupe Alvarez, a lifelong Elmhurst resident who now lives across from a brothel, told the New York Post. “I could never have a family here,” she added, after witnessing gang violence, car thefts and open-air prostitution steps from her door.

Alvarez confronted Ocasio-Cortez at a town hall, only to be brushed off and referred to a staffer. “She did a very silent exit through the back,” Alvarez told the New York Post.

Others, like Ramses Frias, a Republican City Council candidate, echoed the frustration. “You have a mouth to speak up. People are suffering. They’re scared to go outside,” he told the New York Post.

Critics are directly tying the rise in lawlessness to AOC’s aggressive anti-police rhetoric. At the height of the “Defund the Police” movement, Ocasio-Cortez said a $1.5 billion cut to the NYPD didn’t go far enough, saying in 2020, “Defunding police means defunding police.” That same year, the NYPD canceled a cadet class that would have added over 1,100 officers to the force.

Even as her district suffers, AOC has remained silent on the crisis. While residents plead with the federal government for help, AOC has focused on national media appearances and progressive crusades— far from the streets her constituents say are turning into danger zones.

“She talks about helping the poor, but the poor in her own district are scared to walk down the street,” Betsy Brantner Smith of the National Police Association, told the New York Post. “If you don’t feel safe, you’re not free.”