Sentences with phrase «violent felons»

«Heastie led the effort in the state Assembly to make New York a Sanctuary State for violent felon illegal immigrants, and has been anything but a friend to Long Island as speaker of the state Assembly,» Fullington said.

feel free to take the test and spend your first 8 years on the job working a maximum security prison 400 miles from home, walking around murderers, rapists, robbers, drug dealers and all other sorts of violent felons with nothing more than wood baton, getting spit at, having urine and feces thrown at you, HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated bodily fluids thrown at you for 43,000 a year.

Grieshaber - Geddes advocated for passage of «Jenna's Law» to end parole for first time violent felons after her daughter, Jenna Grieshaber, was murdered by a parolee in Albany.

This pathetic clown we have in Albany would not have the nerve, nor the back bone to go after real criminals or parasites of the state, like make a law that dose not allow violent felons to get out early on good behavior, or make mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients.

It's interesting that Martins» campaign is using that «violent felon illegal immigrants» line, which is a page straight out of the Senate GOP playbook.

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito broke with Mayor Bill de Blasio over his call not to grant violent felons and those convicted of other egregious crimes access to a proposed $ 16.4 million city fund to provide free legal services to undocumented immigrants fighting deportation under Trump.

The August 20, 2013 Rossen Report warned how in - home service workers that unsuspecting customers let into their homes could be violent felons with criminal records since there are no federal laws and only «spotty» local laws requiring such service companies to perform background checks.

«Convicted, violent felons gave up their right to vote when they committed the heinous crimes for which they were incarcerated.

Added Rochester - area Sen. Rich Funke: «Some of these politicians want to treat violent felons, murderers, and rapists as kids under the law.

Claiming New York's parole system is broken, the state Senate approved measures to make it harder for cop killers like recently released Herman Bell and other violent felons to get out of jail.

Faso Ensured Passage of Jenna's Law, which Eliminated Parole for Violent Felons Kinderhook, NY — October 28, 2016... John Faso's campaign today released its latest ad featuring -LSB-...]

One of the most important arrests was of 28 - year - old Emmanuel Quezada of 70 Sharp Street, Apartment # 2, Haverstraw, New York, a repeat violent felon and according to Zugibe, a major source of illegal narcotics for Rockland County.

The head of the NYC Department of Investigations is blasting NYCHA for failing to evict violent felons from its buildings.

De Blasio characterized as «fair» a reporter's description of the program's provisions for violent felons as «to be announced.»

«Putting in prison violent felons and removing them from our community — that's just what we do,» he said.

An elite team of detectives assigned to capture the city's most violent felons gets unwanted help from a stranger that is apprehending them first, taking them from civil arrests to murder.

This may be due in part to the high rate of early dropout among violent felons.

(Important personal note: Please do not assume that your yellow - cab driver is a saint; I have known violent felons, drug dealers, thieves and other scoundrels who have passed muster with the government run monopoly.)

After all, I was an openly gay former prosecutor forced to serve my time in the same jurisdiction where I had spent years putting violent felons behind bars.

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Even if a prospective adoptive parent were a convicted violent felon, the felony likely would not automatically prevent an adoption from happening; the judge would need to entertain evidence and make a determination about whether, despite the felony, the adoption was in the best interests of the adoptee.

Rice said she supports banning the sale of military - style assault weapons and high - capacity ammunition and closing «loopholes that allow violent felons, domestic abusers, and people with dangerous mental illnesses to avoid background checks and buy guns.»

«Lieutenant Governor Northam understands the importance of protecting the rights of law - abiding Virginians and keeping guns out of the hands of violent felons, domestic abusers, and other dangerous people.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito broke with Mayor Bill de Blasio today over his call not to grant violent felons and those convicted of other egregious crimes access to a proposed $ 16.4 million city fund to provide free legal services to undocumented immigrants fighting deportation under President Donald Trump.

He then explains that then Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was trying to prevent Jenna's Law, which eliminated parole for first time violent felons, from passing but Faso, who was Assembly Minority Leader at the time, didn't allow that to happen.

He helped pass Jenna's Law, which ended parole for violent felons, over the objection of Sheldon Silver, the former New York Assembly Speaker who is currently serving time in prison on corruption charges.

Kinderhook, NY — October 28, 2016... John Faso's campaign today released its latest ad featuring a father whose daughter was murdered by a violent felon.

«Jenna was murdered by a violent felon out on parole,» Grieshaber says.

The would - be parolees were violent felons; the contributions were made by their families, Korean business people in Queens.

ICE says it now focuses only on aliens who are gangsters, drug dealers, child predators or violent felons.

The officials also said they were discouraged from pursuing leads on political corruption that the case generated, including one involving prosecutor John Scott Prudenti, who allegedly took a bribe in the form of payment to charter his boat in exchange for getting a violent felon out of prison.

He called for stiffer penalties and sentences for illegal weapon sale, possession and use; a statewide registry of violent felons; increased penalties for anyone caught with a gun on the ground of a school or on a school bus; and a push to end gang violence.

In 1998, Silver made the news in Syracuse as the man who stalled action on «Jenna's Law,» a bill to curtail parole for violent felons.

«A high - risk group would be violent felons.

Like I said, I certainly don't want to discriminate against anyone, but at the same time I have some investments in upper - middle - class neighborhoods and the neighbors would be quite angry with me if I allowed a violent felon or some other horrible crime to move next door to them.