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Cop killer Shu’aib Raheem paroled 37 years later, NYPD outraged by decision

A Brooklyn cop killer walked out of prison Friday after more than three decades behind bars - over fierce objections from police officials and his victim’s widow.

Shu’aib Raheem, ringleader in a 1973 standoff in which Officer Stephen Gilroy was murdered, was sprung from the Eastern Correctional Facility in Napanoch.

Raheem, 60, carried his personal belongings and whatever cash he saved through the years while working in prison. Plus he got $40 in “gate money” from a fund paid for with inmates’ earnings.

His release set off a furor among cops, including Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, who called Gilroy’s murder an attack on society.

“I think people convicted of killing police officers forfeit the right to parole,” Kelly said.

Patrick Lynch, head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, called the release “disgraceful.”

The ex-con plans to relocate to the Carolinas, sources said, if his parole officer approves. He met with the parole officer yesterday after he got back to the city.

Raheem was one of four men charged in the slaying of Gilroy, who was 29 when he was shot outside John and Al’s Sporting Goods, a Williamsburg shop where robbers were holding hostages.