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Invest in services and end specified policing practices
Ocasio-Cortez supports shifting investment from policing as a one-stop response to community problems toward healthcare, housing, education, and support services. She also supports taking police out of schools, ending qualified immunity, banning tear gas and rubber bullets, and ending broken-windows and quality-of-life policing.
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In their own words
Alexandria believes we must divest from policing as a one-stop-solution to community problems
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Retrieved: 11/12/2026