Recidivist Rhamell Burke is accused of shoving a 76-year-old former school teacher down a flight of NYC subway stairs. Robert Mecea for New York Post

The Issue: Recidivist Rhamell Burke allegedly shoving an ex-NYC teacher down subway stairs to his death.

The murder of Ross Falzone by a crazed repeat offender, released an hour after police escorted him to Bellevue Hospital, encapsulates every destructive impulse the left acts upon ( “Subway track record,” May 10).

The responsibility of government is to protect the lives of its citizens. Instead, the left continues to protect criminals.

There is a simple solution to this cancer: mandatory and lasting incarceration of those who threaten the safety of others, be they insane or simply deviant.

Anthony Parks

Garden City

There is a simple question we should ask every lenient judge who does not follow prosecutor recommendations in the face of a mentally-ill recidivist: Judge, if you are going to release the alleged perpetrator, will you take him home?

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