In keeping with the Democratic stance on freeing dangerous criminals to prey on the innocent, NY Gov Andrew Cuomo has released eight sex offenders including three child rapists. Of the eight sex offenders, the state has found that at least three of them are highly likely to repeat their crimes. How many of the 1,100 total prisoners released will go on to commit more crimes and create more victims?
the latest prisoner release stems from Gov Cuomo’s orders to release criminals in jail for violating their probation. You take a criminal and you give them probation. They violate that probation and then you re release them because why?
Greece Chief of Police Patrick Phelan blasted the move:
“It doesn’t make any sense. If you could present an argument to me that makes sense, I’m willing to listen. But this doesn’t make any sense. So you have a violent criminal who’s done time in state prison who’s been given the chance of parole, and not followed the conditions of their parole. That’s who you’re talking about right now.”
On Friday, Gov. Cuomo directed the state’s department of corrections to begin releasing inmates who were behind bars for low-level technical violations of their parole.
“We’re releasing people who are in jails because they violated parole for non-serious reasons,” Cuomo said Friday night on MSNBC, according to the New York Post. “And wherever we can get people out of jails, out of prisons, now, we are.”
The department of corrections told WIVB-TV that it made decisions on which prisoners to release based on a “review of the underlying technical violation, not the original crime.”
What’s more is that Phelan said his department wasn’t even notified by the state.
“We weren’t told by anyone,” he said. “I think good practice would be if you’re going to release convicted felons — some of them very violent some of those level 3 sex offenders — you might want to give law enforcement the heads up.”