The job of the New York State Board of Parole is to release convicted criminals back onto the streets. It is staffed by leftists well suited to this task:

New York’s Parole Board is a patronage mill stuffed with leftist ideologues and political has-beens who each rake in an astounding $190,000 yearly…

They have released 43 cop-killers in the past 8 years.

This one is a prize:

Tana Agostini was appointed to the New York Board of Parole in 2017 by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo — four years after she used her clout to engineer the parole of a convicted murderer she fell in love with and married.

The prison career of her heartthrob Thomas O’Sullivan “included an escape and biting off part of an inmate’s nose.”

The current board is also filled with former lefty state legislators, Legal Aid Society lawyers, public defenders and other longtime prisoner-rights advocates.

A “prisoner-rights advocate” is a militant moonbat who focuses on sacrificing the interests of law-abiding citizens to those of convicted criminals.

Other board members include Chairman Darryl C. Towns…

The former Democratic state assemblyman later served as then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Housing Commissioner – and is the son of former Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-Brooklyn). He’s had his own run in with cops too, busted for drunk driving in Mount Vernon in 2011. His wife, Karen Boykin-Towns, is vice chair of the NAACP National Board of Directors. She also worked for 22 years for pharma giant Pfizer – where she became its first chief diversity officer in 2008.

…Carlton Mitchell…

The bio on the board’s website says Mitchell worked in the non-profit sector to bring about “social transformation.” He voted in 2023 to release Edward M. Kindt, 39, who was convicted of raping and murdering a jogger in 1999 in upstate New York.

…Michael S. Corley…

His bio on the board’s web page claims he is a trained “Restorative Justice Practitioner,” looking for ways to keep people out of jail through mediation and counseling. The site says he has also “helped countless justice involved youth and adults,” a euphemism for criminals.

…and Laura El-Bahtity:

Most recently, she worked as a managing attorney in Buffalo’s liberal Legal Aid Bureau, which helps criminals get out of jail. “As a public defender, she witnessed first hand the disparities and challenges her clients faced in the criminal justice system and in re-entering the community,” the [Department of Corrections and Community Supervision] website states.

With moonbats in charge, the goal is not to keep the innocent safe. It is to erase “disparities” caused by the rampant black criminality their ideology encourages.

The Empire State is becoming an unlivable hellhole because representatives of the bad guys are in charge. New Yorkers voted their way into this mess, but thanks to the Democrat Death Spiral causing so many nonmoonbats to escape the state (including Yours Truly), it may be too late to vote their way out.

But at least the parole board is plenty diverse, as you might imagine.

On a tip from Jack D.