Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said there were no easy answers after the brutal murder of Barnard College student Tessa Majors last year, calling the slaying a “tragedy on multiple levels.”

“Of course, you have the horrific tragedy of a young woman’s life being taken with so much potential,” she told The Post just before a town hall in Queens to discuss the 2020 census participation. “But then you have the tragedy of a young boy that was driven to that point, taken to that point. And I think that tragedy is also one of intergenerational poverty, potentially of a broken home, [and] lack of opportunity.”

AOC continued by asking whether “our answers to crime [should be] always to just treat prisons like a place to throw human beings away?”

She declined to offer her opinion on what the appropriate sentence should be for three alleged perpetrators and said the matter would be best decided by judges familiar with the all the circumstances of the case.

Luchiano Lewis, 14, Rashaun Weaver, 14, and Zyairr Davis, 13, have been charged in connection with the brutal Dec. 11 stabbing in Morningside Park.