NYs anti-justice Parole Boards shameful salary: Letters to the Editor April 15, 2025

As Tina Moore’s article on the Parole Board points out, justice in New York is no longer part of the process (“Parole Board has ‘free’ rein,” April 13).It has become a commodity — something to be bought and sold.Ex-Gov.Andrew Cuomo and his henchmen have turned justice into a zero-sum game where the victims always lose and the criminals never pay in full — despite what’s been found by a competent jury.The Empire State was warned about “defining deviancy down” 32 years ago by someone who genuinely cared about the welfare of others.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan must be turning in his grave.James EvansWorcester, Mass.New York’s Parole Board is a perverse panel of overpaid, felon-friendly, far-left lunatics who sacrifice our safety for their woke fantasy of “restorative justice.” Freeing 43 convicted cop-killers is a total disgrace.Why does any convicted murderer deserve a second chance? Did their victims get a second chance?The board must be rebalanced to include more members with a law-enforcement background and fewer with a public-defender disposition.Richard ReifQueensEach of the 16 otherwise-unemployable members of the Parole Board takes down a fast $190k a year for next to no work.Most are Cuomo appointees whose sole purpose seems to be to release convicted felons back onto our streets.I especially liked Tana Agostini, who used her job as a dating service to bag murderer Thomas O’Sullivan.

Love may be blind, but for $190k a year this sure stings the rest of us long-suffering taxpayers.Ron SpurgaManhattanThe state Parole Board is ridiculously stacked against crime victims, police, prosecutors of violent crime, judges and the public’s safety.Not one member out of the 16 represents those essential interests, not to mention the many New York residents who are not registered Democrats.Paul HudsonSarasota, Fla.How would Cuomo act if he felt the pain that the families of slain police officers feel every day when watching their killers set free b...