Tiffany Caban Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and ran for District Attorney of Queens in New York.
She was heavily endorsed by AOC herself.
Ending the War on Drugs means we must transform DA offices across the country.
In Queens, @CabanForQueens wants to set a new model for the country:
✅ End Cash Bail
✅ Stop Prosecuting Drug Use (it’s a HEALTH issue!)
✅ No Corporate $Donate + help here: https://t.co/voyNzBwVx1
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 23, 2019
Caban won the election. This is how she chose to announce it:
This campaign started with just four women, sitting around a kitchen table, saying: we have to change the system.
So I did what many thought was unthinkable for a 31-year-old Queer Latina public defender whose parents grew up in the Woodside Houses. I decided to run.
— Tiffany Cabán (@tiffany_caban) June 26, 2019
I don’t care that she is either queer or Latina. That she clearly has made this central to her political identity does not bode well. As we have seen so often in recent history, identity politics and social justice are almost always in conflict with actual justice.
We built a campaign to reduce recidivism.
Decriminalize poverty.
End mass incarceration.
To protect our immigrant communities.
Keep people rooted in their communities with the access to support and services.— Tiffany Cabán (@tiffany_caban) June 26, 2019
The changes we are fighting for will mean a fairer and more equitable and more effective criminal justice system.
That doesn't come at the cost of safety—it is the source of safety.
— Tiffany Cabán (@tiffany_caban) June 26, 2019
Transforming this system will not be easy, and it will not happen overnight. But I am ready. We are ready.
— Tiffany Cabán (@tiffany_caban) June 26, 2019
So what I’m reading here is that violence in Queens is going to go up. Qualiy of life will decrease as quality of life crimes skyrocket. The streets will run red with blood and brown with human shit. Open-air drug use will be everywhere, and makeshift tent cities will appear in every lot.
It’s not hard to predict this, because Caban’s rhetoric is the same as every politician in every major West Coast city that now has a standard of living that is comparable to the slums of Mumbai.
I’m going to start following the news out of Queens to track the decline.
It it would stay in Queens, I’d have no problem. But that stuff spreads to other places and NYC is Anti Vaxxer for Stupid Politics
“So I did what many thought was unthinkable for a 31-year-old Queer Latina public defender whose parents grew up in the Woodside Houses. I decided to run.”
Literally who thought that unthinkable, I want to know.
No one would think that unthinkable. Not even a legitimate neo Nazi or some gay hating white supremacist.
They always have to be the victim overcoming adversity.
[…] I read J. Kb’s post and I had to shake my head […]
AND she wants to de criminalize resisting arrest. Good idea!! (Sarcasm)
I’ll tell you what’s unthinkable: Joe Biden running as a queer latina.
Yeah, like the Philadelphia DA that won’t prosecute property crime involving less than $750, it won’t take long for people to wonder why violent crime is up. At least incarceration rates will be down.
Might want to add Kimmy Foxx in Chicago and Crook County Illinois; and the guy in Dallas TX to your list too. I am worried for Minneapolis Minnesota because the long time Hennepin County Prosecutor is in alcohol/ drug treatment and in his seventies too.
Good sources for Chicago are HeyJackAss! and CWB Blog. CWB broke a lot of the stories on Jussie Smollet this Spring.
She does make one good point. If nobody ever goes to jail, recidivism will be zero.