NYC Democrat demands firings after violent criminal is released early, then arrested in triple slashing | 25 Nov 2024 | U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres, a Democrat from the Bronx, blasted New York leaders over the weekend for failed criminal justice reforms that enabled "a homicidal rampage" in broad daylight last week, resulting in the murders of three innocent people at the hands of a violent, mentally ill man released from custody early. "The bureaucrat in DOC [Department of Correction] who authorized the early release of Ramon should be fired," Torres wrote in a fiery letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York Mayor Eric Adams, both Democrats... He added that "layers upon layers of government failure" enabled Ramon Rivera, an eight-time criminal whose most recent stint behind bars involved a transfer to the psych ward at Bellevue Hospital, where he attacked a correction officer. He blasted Hochul last week as "the new Joe Biden" and urged her to get out of the way if Democrats want to maintain their grip on power in the Empire State.