An Insult to Slain Officers: Cop-Killer on 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 then-City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito wanted an Armed Forces of National Liberation terrorist leading the Puerto Rican Day parade.
It seems almost intentional on the part of these pathetic, woke politicians to reward individuals who caused misery for others.
“Reform” and “reimagine” are such cute little buzzwords today. I’d like to reimagine a time when the city and state were run with civility and sanity and when coddling the dregs of society was not so commonplace. Gary Kaelin
Commack
Richard Rivera shot an off-duty police officer in the shoulder during an armed robbery and then executed him with a bullet to the head while he was lying helpless on the floor.
The 39 years he served in prison was not enough. He should have never been released.
Dick Mills, Bardonia Letting Rivera on a committee to assist in police reform is about the equivalent of letting the fox into the chicken coop. Who was the genius behind this move to let a murderer plan “reimagining”?
There isn’t a hole deep enough for a soul like this who took away a daddy from his children, a husband from his wife and a hero from the NYPD. Doc Ludemann
Bridgeport, Conn.
Isn’t there anyone else better suited for the job than a convicted copkiller?
When are the people in charge of the state going to start thinking and acting like the majority of the people they serve, rather than pursuing their own agenda, and stop pandering to the people who scream the loudest?
Gov. Cuomo, do the right thing and remove this man from the panel. Paul Baden Matawan, NJ
Well, folks, any doubt that New York has become nut world has been shot to hell.
We have, though it boggles the mind, a cop killer on police-reform board, created at Cuomo’s request. Keep voting Democrat, folks. Joe Cesare Copiague