Cop kin fight killers’ parole

The families of two slain NYPD officers will present victim-impact statements to the state parole board Friday in hopes of keeping three cop-killers locked up while the PBA fights for stricter parole guidelines.

Off-duty cop Anthony Abruzzo, 34, was fatally shot when he intervened in the robbery of his father-in-law, Joseph Mehran, in front of Mehran’s home on Dec. 16, 1981.

Police Officer Sean McDonald, 26, was shot in the back while arresting two armed robbers of a clothing store on March 15, 1994.

“We recognize that the judicious use of parole for certain offenses make sense, but never in the case of cop-killers,” Patrolmen’s Benevolent As- sociation President Patrick Lynch said.

“Recent changes to the parole decision-making policy . . . have resulted in the release of the worst violent criminals in the system, including domestic terrorists who planned, set up and sadistically assassinated two uniformed police officers.”

Current policy looks at what inmates have been doing since their incarceration. The PBA has been working with the state Legislature to enact a process that also considers the nature of the crime and its impact on its victims and their survivors.

A law enacted in 2005 set the punishment for killing a cop at life imprisonment without parole, but 59 cop-killers sentenced before then are eligible to be sprung.