After Lateef Green subway assault, how many more – Latest News
How many more assaults, robberies, rapes and murders will New York’s progressives let vicious road thugs and mentally ailing vagrants commit?
On Friday, a homeless parolee with more than a dozen prior arrests, Lateef Green, went after an harmless straphanger with a knuckle knife and stabbed him a number of occasions, cops say.
Why was this man free to roam round in search of his subsequent sufferer?
Because New York’s electeds love criminals more than they do law-abiding residents.
Green had gotten despatched up to Mid-State Correctional Facility in 2017 over a 2016 hate assault, during which he severely beat a man in Harlem after screaming, “There’s too many f—ts in this town.”
He was given a slap on the wrist sentence: three to 6 years.
He served much less than 4 and obtained paroled in 2021, means earlier than he had remotely paid his debt for his vicious crime.
Then, in February he was nabbed for leaping a turnstile.
Proving but again that “small” crimes and massive ones go hand in hand.
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And that should you act towards the previous, you may stop the latter.
Yet there he was, out on the streets. Free to commit new crimes.
The concept that somebody on parole for a violent crime — with a number of arrests on his report, no much less — ought to get a free cross for any offense is past absurd: In a functioning society he’d have been shipped back to jail the day after he jumped that turnstile.
Now that it’s too late, the authorities have leaped into motion — hitting Green with high bail and an tried homicide charge.
It’s solely by sheer probability he didn’t kill anybody.
Yet now Gov. Kathy Hochul desires to let more violent thugs out of jail early, after she fired 2,000 correction officers for illegally putting and created a staffing scarcity.
It makes you surprise: Do Hochul and lefty pols have so little concern for crime victims?
Or do they really need people like Green out on streets terrifying New Yorkers?
