The monster who admitted to killing, molesting and burning an elderly Queens couple was roaming the streets because of a little-known change to the state parole law championed by mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
Jamel McGriff, an ex-con sex offender on parole, failed to register his address this summer — a violation that would have landed him back in the slammer three years ago.
But “Less Is More” parole reforms enacted in 2022 allowed him to stay free.
The legislation keeps parolees out of the clink while a lengthy court process plays out to determine their guilt or innocence on the new charges, and also created a three-strike policy giving them a pass on their first two violations.
The measure passed two years after Albany enacted the equally disastrous bail reform laws, which are now blamed for the revolving door of justice that lets career criminals back on the streets. But it did not grab the attention of the public and media that bail reform did.
The parole bill was authored by lefty Phara Souffrant Forrest, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and co-sponsored by her socialist comrade, Assemblyman and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, and dozens of others.
“Our system is built for life-long punishment, not rehabilitation,” Mamdani said at the time. “Less is More is a vital step towards ensuring that when our neighbors return home from prison, they can stay at home. I’m proud to be part of the passage of this bill.”
Mamdani did not return messages from The Post asking him to explain his position on parole reform — or about this week’s horrific Queens murder. --->READ MORE HERE
Democratic mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani and his comrades at the Democratic Socialists of America want to wipe out the enforcement of all misdemeanor offenses, The Post has learned.
In its most recent platform, the group blasts policing and detention as “instruments of class war” designed to “guarantee the domination of the working class” — and demands an end what it calls “the criminalization of working-class survival.”
“For all of the working class to achieve collective liberation we must constrain, diminish, and abolish the carceral forces of the state — from prisons and police themselves, to their manifestations in all forms throughout society,” according to the national party’s latest platform, adopted in 2021.
On the campaign trail, Mamdani has repeatedly called for police to stop focusing on what he’s referred to as “non serious crimes.”
“Police have a critical role to play but right now we’re relying on them to deal with the failures of our social safety net, which is preventing them from doing their actual jobs,” he said in a campaign video posted to X Wednesday.
The DSA has also pushed to slash arrests, gut prosecutors’ budgets, abolish cash bail and all forms of pre-trial detention, scrap electronic monitoring, and end imprisonment for parole violations.
Mamdani, a Queens assemblyman and member of the NYC chapter of the DSA and its endorsed mayoral candidate, has questioned the purpose of prisons and repeatedly called to roll back punishment on so-called “non-violent offenses” – both as an Albany lawmaker and in his Gotham mayoral campaign.
He doubled down on his longstanding push to legalize prostitution this week.
On the campaign trail, Mamdani backtracked from his prior ‘defund the police’ views in the wake of the Park Avenue massacre, insisting he’d keep the NYPD roughly at its current size and redirect officers to focus only on “serious” crimes.
Critics remain unconvinced he can lead law enforcement and tame NYC crime.
“I don’t buy for a second that he is moderated on any of these policing questions because he has yet to really articulate in any deep way why he’s moderated or how he’s moderated,” said Rafael Mangual, a legal policy expert at the Manhattan Institute. “All he has really said is that he no longer wants to defund the police, even though police and prison and jail abolition are core tenets of the DSA party platform.”--->READ MORE HERE
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