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On the recordDecember 7, 2021
increasingly, so many of our communities, including the Bronx and Queens that I represent, do not believe and are increasingly not believing that we have a justice system in the United States.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

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Ocasio-Cortez discusses the lack of faith in the justice system among her constituents.

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