1st degree assault can get you 25 years, what is he doing serving only 3? Or was it just a charge and he was in prison waiting for trial?
NYPD should go on strike until the city allows them to enforce the law again.
Probably released because “muh raycisms” or something like that.
Hey NYC! How did that work out hiring a former NY cop as mayor?
I guess the police union won’t endorse Adams in the next election.
Sorry for the cop and his family.
Effing bastards are running the asylum.
How can a guy with 21 previous arrests get a gun? I thought background checks were supposed to keep this from happening.
That’s a hulluva run to get from Far Rockaway to Jamaica Hospital. St. John’s Episcopal is right there.
RE: Only in prison for 3 years and out to shoot an innocent police officer....
When Rudy Giuliani was Mayor I remember a chief of NYPD interviwed saying “One major reason crime is down is many of the criminals who used to commit the violent crimes are in prison on mandatory sentences now and are not outside to commit crimes.”
So simple but that escapes the woke Dem voters today.
I didn't see a 25 year sentence in the NY Post article. Where did you hear that? I looked up Rivera in the NY State DOCS system online. The first degree assault charge was a Class C felony. He was given a maximum sentence of 3 Years, 6 Months, 0 Days, and had to serve the maximum. No early out. And when he got out, there was no post-incarceration supervision required. The sale of a criminal substance charge was a Class B felony. He was given a maximum sentence of 6 years, and served all six, getting out in 2021. He had a parole interview date in September of 2020. If the interview occurred, there is no record of its outcome. For this crime he was on post-incarceration supervision until 06/28/2022.
One has to wonder what this guy was doing between his first bid, and his second bid. Was he known to the cops, had charges that were dropped, or not pursued? Plenty of people get away with multiple crimes if they're not actually charged.
There are three different kinds of sentencing in NY...Determinate (a specific number of years), Indeterminate (5-10 years), and Life Sentence. In reality, except in certain circumstances, there is no such thing as doing life in NY State prisons. There is always a possibility that someone with a life sentence can be released.
The way it was before I retired from NY State Correctional Services, an inmate had to do two-thirds of his sentence before he could be eligible for release. Nobody goes to prison unless they have already been sentenced. Anyone given a sentence of a year or over, go to a State prison. Anyone sentenced below that usually serve their time in jail.
The George Floyd effect thanks media. No one thinks they need to listen to a thing a cop says nowadays. How dare a white cracker ask this thug to step out of his stolen vehicle.
Quite a few times I thought that these bullet prove vests don’t go down far enough in front, I could be wrong as I am no expert at it.
Perp didn’t really have anything to lose and the vest didn’t help much, either. Might as well stop bothering with traffic stops in NYC now.
Keep in mind that NYS recently closed six prisons and is talking about closing five more...
Why aren’t the people who so callously let this guy out — time and time again — held responsible for their abject failure to do their job — and fail multiple times to do their job?
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