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Mayor Calls Out Gov. Cuomo for “Not Taking Seriously” the Dangers of Releasing Parolees without Support

Mayor Calls Out Gov. Cuomo for “Not Taking Seriously” the Dangers of Releasing Parolees without Support

By Yehudit Garmaise

    Mayor de Blasio seems to be taking a new tact in blaming the root causes of hate crimes, after New York City saw 13 hate crimes perpetrated in one week, at the end of March.

      A longtime advocate of education in public schools as a preventative measure toward preventing hate crimes, the mayor now also points his finger at New York state’s parole system, which he has said, "dumps parolees in New York City with no plan, no housing, no job, no mental health support."

     The mental instability of recently released prisoners came to light when Darryl Jones, who had been recently released from prison for committing murders, one of which included killing his own mother, perpetrated a knife attack against a young Jewish family, including a one-year old baby in a stroller, and several Asian-Americans suffered violent attacks as well from recent parolees.

    Has the mayor changed his thinking that more hate crimes could be prevented by changing the state’s parole system or by better attending to the mentally ill, than by simply promoting cultural diversity in public schools?

    “What we do to educate our children does have an effect,” the mayor told BoroPark24, “but, I don’t think [the reason people commit hate crimes] is just one thing or the other.”

  The mayor did point out that “a very small number of folks with mental health challenges end up committing acts of violence, and the parole situation is an example of this.” 

  In New York state, for example, after being released from long prison terms, previously violent criminals “are given no support whatsoever,” the mayor said. “That is the definition of insanity. You are asking for a problem to happen.” 

  The state of New York, the mayor said, “has not owned this problem. 

  “We are talking right now to folks in the legislature about this because it is clear the state government, the executive branch, just doesn’t take this problem seriously and doesn’t take responsibility.”

   “How can you take, every year, hundreds of people and just dump them on the streets with no support whatsoever? 

     “In New York City, we provide support and preparation for when people leave incarceration in our correctional system. We provide training and education. We provide transitional jobs.

    “The state doesn’t do that, and that is a danger to all of us, and it really is time for that to be addressed.”

Credit: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office.


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