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NY lawmakers refuse to get ticking time bombs off the streets

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How many violent assaults does it take before New York can get ticking time bombs off the streets?

Last week saw disturbed Bronx resident Diana Smith arrested for ripping out a chunk of another straphanger’s hair as she ranted “Jews are eating kids”; she’d had at least six run-ins with the police.

Earlier in the week Shawnee Moore allegedly stabbed a 75-year-old Brooklyn woman in the neck; Moore, 36, had three priors, including an arrest trying to set someone’s face on fire last year.

The judge had denied prosecutors’ request for bail, putting her on supervised release, which is all release with no real........

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