The Situation: An 87% pay hike for state Parole Board members since 2019, as they’ve freed 43 cop-killers.
As Tina Moore’s article on the Parole Board factors out, justice in New York is not a part of the method (“Parole Board has ‘free’ rein,” April 13).
It has change into a commodity — one thing to be purchased and offered.
Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his henchmen have turned justice right into a zero-sum recreation the place the victims at all times lose and the criminals by no means pay in full — regardless of what’s been discovered by a reliable jury.
The Empire State was warned about “defining deviancy down” 32 years in the past by somebody who genuinely cared concerning the welfare of others. Daniel Patrick Moynihan have to be delivering his grave.
James Evans
Worcester, Mass.
New York’s Parole Board is a perverse panel of overpaid, felon-friendly, far-left lunatics who sacrifice our security for his or her woke fantasy of “restorative justice.” Liberating 43 convicted cop-killers is a complete shame.
Why does any convicted assassin deserve a second probability? Did their victims get a second probability?
The board have to be rebalanced to incorporate extra members with a law-enforcement background and fewer with a public-defender disposition.
Richard Reif
Queens
Every of the 16 otherwise-unemployable members of the Parole Board takes down a quick $190k a yr for subsequent to no work. Most are Cuomo appointees whose sole objective appears to be to launch convicted felons again onto our streets.
I particularly preferred Tana Agostini, who used her job as a relationship service to bag assassin Thomas O’Sullivan. Love could also be blind, however for $190k a yr this positive stings the remainder of us long-suffering taxpayers.
Ron Spurga
Manhattan
The state Parole Board is ridiculously stacked in opposition to crime victims, police, prosecutors of violent crime, judges and the general public’s security.
Not one member out of the 16 represents these important pursuits, to not point out the various New York residents who should not registered Democrats.
Paul Hudson
Sarasota, Fla.
How would Cuomo act if he felt the ache that the households of slain law enforcement officials really feel on daily basis when watching their killers let out by the Parole Board?
Jake McNicholas
Whitestone
The Situation: Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s proposed company job cuts.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is true to give attention to the large image (“Wholesome Cuts to Fed Fats,” Robert F. Kennedy, April 11).
America is struggling many extra deaths annually in comparison with different developed international locations, regardless that we spend twice as a lot on well being care. This outrageous scandal is a shame that we must be ashamed of.
A radical transformation of our well being care system is an existential problem. Solely Kennedy can repair it, if he’s given the possibility.
Blake Fleetwood
Amagansett
Publishing RFK Jr.’s protection of his lethal evisceration of Well being and Human Providers is harmful. He’s a science denialist whose anti-vaccine advocacy for 25 years has brought on nice hurt to tens of millions globally.
Kennedy has set again years of credible scientific and medical analysis. He’s a transparent and current hazard to international well being care.
The Put up has condemned him repeatedly. So it’s inexcusable that your paper would grant him area to advertise extra of his lies and deceit.
John Kwok
Brooklyn
RFK Jr. is a lawyer, not a health care provider, proposing radical adjustments to the HHS.
Having him head this company with zero medical expertise is nearly as insane as stating that the measles vaccine is non-compulsory.
Alan Swartz
Verona, NJ
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