The Issue: 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 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 Evans
Worcester, 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 Reif
Queens
Each 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 Spurga
Manhattan
The 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 Hudson
Sarasota, 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 by the Parole Board?
Jake McNicholas
Whitestone
The Issue: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s proposed agency job cuts.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is right to focus on the big picture (“Healthy Cuts to Fed Fat,” Robert F. Kennedy, April 11).
America is suffering many excess deaths each year compared to other developed countries, even though we spend twice as much on health care. This outrageous scandal is a disgrace that we should be ashamed of.
A radical transformation of our health care system is an existential challenge. Only Kennedy can fix it, if he’s given the chance.
Blake Fleetwood
Amagansett
Publishing RFK Jr.’s defense of his deadly evisceration of Health and Human Services is dangerous. He’s a science denialist whose anti-vaccine advocacy for 25 years has caused great harm to millions globally.
Kennedy has set back years of credible scientific and medical research. He is a clear and present danger to global health care.
The Post has condemned him repeatedly. So it is inexcusable that your paper would grant him space to promote more of his lies and deceit.
John Kwok
Brooklyn
RFK Jr. is a lawyer, not a doctor, proposing radical changes to the HHS.
Having him head this agency with zero medical experience is almost as insane as stating that the measles vaccine is optional.
Alan Swartz
Verona, NJ
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