Whatever her other efforts to undo New York state’s worst criminal-justice moves of recent years, Gov. Kathy Hochul doesn’t seem to be trying to clean up the pro-criminal Parole Board.
The just-finished legislative session saw the Senate quietly confirm four of her nominees to the board — two to fill longstanding vacancies, two to finally replace members installed by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo whose terms had expired some time ago.
Going on four years after he resigned in a cloud of scandal, Cuomo picks until now still constituted a majority of the board, in part because Hochul hasn’t pushed to put her own stamp on it — perhaps out of a calculation that the progressive, pro-criminal faction that controls the state Senate wouldn’t confirm any tough-on-crime nominees, so what’s the point?…