With crime rising all across the state, New York’s Legislature is looking to . . . make it worse, with a new round of parole “reform.”
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie last week expressed hopes to pass two
such bills before the session ends on June 10: one to make it easier for
older inmates to get sprung, another to force the Parole Board to give
more weight to inmates’ rehabilitation record in prison than to their
original crimes, no matter how horrific.
This follows past easing of the rules and Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s steady
stream of left-leaning appointments to the Parole Board, which already
has even cop- and child-killers getting let out on a regular basis.
As state Sen. Thomas O’Mara (R-Elmira/Ithaca) notes, the
“pro-criminal mentality . . . has gone too far and keeps going too far.”
It’s not just rising violence in New York City
and Albany: Murders are soaring in Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo,
too. Yet the Democratic supermajorities in the Assembly and Senate
refuse to even consider making the vital fix to the disastrous no-bail
law, namely giving judges the power to set bail for perps who pose a
clear danger to the public and for habitual offenders.
And Gov. Cuomo goes along with lawmakers’ madness, even as he insists
the city needs to get crime under control. It’s as if New York’s
leaders think the symbol for justice should be not a set of scales, but a
revolving door.
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