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Defund-the-police NYC pol says constituents in high-crime area want more cops because “they don’t know better”

A Defund the Police-pushing Bronx councilwoman who represents one of the most crime-ridden sections of NYC all but accused her constituents this week of being clueless for wanting more cops.

“People in my community ask for more cops because they don’t know other solutions,” Councilwoman Althea Stevens told NYPD brass at Monday’s public safety committee hearing while defending legislation she’s sponsoring to eliminate the Police Department’s gang database.

Stevens and members of the Council’s left-wing Progressive Caucus have long pushed for many non-police responses to crime, including using “violence interrupters” where civilians are trained to deescalate violence.

(The lady’s district has the fourth-highest crime rate in the city, with major crime surging 41% since 2019, records show.)

Here’s more on that proposed gangbangers bill

Mayor Eric Adams and police officials took a swipe at a bill pushed by progressives that would abolish the NYPD’s gang database — saying Monday it’ll make it more difficult for cops to nab violent criminals and prevent shootings.

The mayor, during a press briefing at City Hall, said he didn’t buy left-wing critics’ arguments that the Criminal Group Database amounts to racial profiling since nearly all the gang members ID’d are black and Latino.

“There’s a number they leave out — 96% of the victims of shootings in the city are people of color. Let’s keep them in mind ,.. Many [Just many?] gang members “prey on innocent people in their community,” he noted, adding, “Some of them are extremely dangerous. Some [sic] of them are repeat offenders.”

NYPD officials said 500 groups are identified as gangs, and that 25% of members in the database are convicted felons, 33% are on parole/probation, 45% have been arrested previously — and about one-third have been busted 20 or more times and one-third have been involved in shootings.

Queens Republican Councilwoman JoAnn Ariola called the bill straight out of “La La Land,” saying that she’s never met a constituent who asked for the gang database to be abolished — though they do want more police officers assigned to their neighborhoods.

“These people aren’t members of the community. They prey on the community,” Ariola said of gang members.

Bronx Democratic Councilwoman Althea Stevens, a sponsor of the bill, said, “I’m in La La land.”

“It seems like racial profiling,” Stevens said.