Another insult to injury as NYS Parole Board once again releases a cop-killer

Right after the state Parole Board just quietly sprung another cop-killer , will Gov. Kathy Hochul really add another lefty member the board? Lee Ernest Walker fatally shot NYPD Officer Juan Andino to death in 1984 over the theft of a pair of $140 Cazal eyeglass frames popularized by rappers Run DMC; last week, the board paroled him from Sing Sing. That makes 43 ( forty-three! ) cop-killers sprung since December 2017, when then-Gov.

Andrew Cuomo went for greatly relaxed parole rules as he packed the board with “let ’em loose” picks in a bid to score points with the pro-crime hard left. The outrages included springing cop-killer Anthony Bottom , a Black Liberation Army radical, after four decades in prison as well as Weather Underground member David Gilbert , who took part in the infamous, cop-killing Brink’s robbery. And the “Less is More” law, signed by Gov.



Kathy Hochul in 2021, made it easier for crooks who violate their parole to stay out of prison . In 2023, the Legislature made it easier for yet more incarcerated people to be eligible for parole. “It appears that the parole board has far too many pro-criminal activists whose intention is to release cop-killers.

Many of these board members are hold-overs whose terms expired years ago. It’s time to clean house,” PBA president Patrick Hendry told The Post. And now lefty ex-Assemblyman Danny O’Donnell (a former public defender) is angling to join the board.

Hochul could instead push to move the Parole Board toward sanity: 11 of its 16 members are serving after their terms expired. Of course, she’d need to get her appointees confirmed by the state Senate, where soft-on-crime progressives now rule. With rare exceptions like Mayor Eric Adams, the New York political establishment is dominated by pols who don’t much care for police officers, nor the survivors of their slain colleagues.

Is it any wonder that police recruitment numbers are at their lowest point in decades? If Hochul wants to boost public safety, she could start with cleaning house at the Parole Board — and nixing Danny O’Donnell’s bid to join it..