#Letters to the Editor — April 1, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — April 1, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — April 1, 2021” The Issue: The appointment of a man convicted of killing an officer in 1981 to a “police reform” board. Honestly, is it that hard not to have a cop-killer sitting on a panel that deals with police reform (“Cop-killer to ‘reform’ police,” March 30)? It’s like when…

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#Letters to the Editor — Feb. 27, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — Feb. 27, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — Feb. 27, 2021” The Issue: The parole of a man convicted of killing NYPD Officer Harry Ryman in 1980. The parole of cop-killer Paul Ford is yet another sign that Gov. Cuomo has absolutely no regard for victims’ families (“Slain-cop kin aghast at murderer’s parole,” Feb. 21). Cuomo has no…

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#Manhattan’s infamous ‘Black Widow’ makes parole

#Manhattan’s infamous ‘Black Widow’ makes parole

“#Manhattan’s infamous ‘Black Widow’ makes parole” On Friday, it will be 30 years to the day since three gunshots rang out over East 69th Street on the Upper East Side, and Mary-Louise Hawkins ran out of her apartment to find her married, millionaire boyfriend, George Kogan, dying on the sidewalk. Fiercely private since the sensational…

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#State GOP introduces bill to strengthen parole board oversight

#State GOP introduces bill to strengthen parole board oversight

“#State GOP introduces bill to strengthen parole board oversight” ALBANY — Outraged over the Cuomo administration’s recent stream of parole approvals for convicted cop-killers Herman Bell and Anthony Bottom and murderer-rapist Samuel Ayala, Republican state lawmakers are introducing a new bill giving the Legislature more oversight of the state parole board. State Assembly Minority Leader…

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