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Mamdani’s pandering cries for accused killer ignores the real crisis at Rikers Island

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After a death on Rikers Island, Mayor Mamdani posted that he was sad about the “death of a New Yorker in city custody,” without mentioning whether he was also sad for the poor guy, Jose Miranda, whom this “New Yorker” had randomly sliced to death on camera.

Mamdani’s selective sadness was a craven pander to his empty-the-jails DSA base.

But it was also a willful misrepresentation of what’s happening at Rikers, and a distraction from his own responsibility.

As a candidate for mayor, Mamdani claimed people who died at Rikers were “killed.” But they weren’t killed. Statistics show most inmates deaths are due to medical episodes, suicides and drug overdoses.

At worst they died of negligence, which Mamdani has done little to combat. He’d rather set criminals free than fix the issues.

Clarence Woodward was the seventh inmate to die this year. If this pace keeps up, we could see 11 deaths this year.

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This toll would be just one less than the average of 12 annual Rikers deaths over the six years between 2020 and 2025, an increase from the........

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