
Right aft the state Parole Board conscionable softly sprung different cop-killer, volition Gov. Kathy Hochul truly adhd another lefty subordinate the board?
Lee Ernest Walker fatally changeable NYPD Officer Juan Andino to decease successful 1984 implicit the theft of a brace of $140 Cazal eyeglass frames popularized by rappers Run DMC; past week, the committee paroled him from Sing Sing.
That makes 43 (forty-three!) cop-killers sprung since December 2017, erstwhile then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo went for greatly relaxed parole rules arsenic helium packed the committee with “let ’em loose” picks successful a bid to people points with the pro-crime hard left.
The outrages included springing cop-killer Anthony Bottom, a Black Liberation Army radical, aft 4 decades successful situation arsenic good arsenic Weather Underground subordinate David Gilbert, who took portion successful the infamous, cop-killing Brink’s robbery.
And the “Less is More” law, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul successful 2021, made it easier for crooks who interruption their parole to enactment retired of prison.
In 2023, the Legislature made it easier for yet much incarcerated radical to beryllium eligible for parole.
“It appears that the parole committee has acold excessively galore pro-criminal activists whose volition is to merchandise cop-killers. Many of these committee members are hold-overs whose presumption expired years ago. It’s clip to cleanable house,” PBA president Patrick Hendry told The Post.
And present lefty ex-Assemblyman Danny O’Donnell (a erstwhile nationalist defender) is angling to articulation the board.
Hochul could instead propulsion to determination the Parole Board toward sanity: 11 of its 16 members are serving aft their presumption expired.
Of course, she’d request to get her appointees confirmed by the authorities Senate, wherever soft-on-crime progressives present rule.
With uncommon exceptions similar Mayor Eric Adams, the New York governmental constitution is dominated by pols who don’t overmuch attraction for constabulary officers, nor the survivors of their slain colleagues. Is it immoderate wonderment that constabulary recruitment numbers are astatine their lowest constituent successful decades?
If Hochul wants to boost nationalist safety, she could commencement with cleaning location astatine the Parole Board — and nixing Danny O’Donnell’s bid to articulation it.