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The Issue: Rep. Ritchie Torres criticizing metropolis and authorities enactment aft a flurry of stabbings.
Finally, a Democrat with communal consciousness has called retired the politician and politician (“Blood connected your hands,” Nov. 25).
Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres speaks from the heart, portion Mayor Adams and Gov. Hochul talk from some sides of the mouth.
Adams uses the City Council arsenic an excuse for his hands being tied.
He needs to instrumentality a leafage retired of Torres’ publication and situation Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, who continues to defy changes to the city’s sanctuary status. Instead, helium dares to telephone Adams his “sister.”
A tally for politician is successful the works, apparently.
Torres has my vote.
Nicholas Maffei
Yonkers
What benignant of civilized nine allows for a mentally deranged idiosyncratic to roam freely successful New York City and randomly perpetrate heinous acts of violence?
While this is an utmost version, this incidental is by nary means an isolated one.
Once again, we spot however nine has neglected intelligence health.
This is simply a nationalist problem, and it’s not going distant anytime soon.
This intelligibly is not a welcomed taxable for galore of our elected officials to entertain nor correct.
For immoderate patients, nary outpatient treatment, adjacent if they did consent, is the answer.
There is simply a conception of the colonisation that simply requires admittance to inpatient facilities.
The lone occupation is that the bulk of these facilities person closed.
Ronald G. Frank
West Orange, NJ
We are told repeatedly that these attackers are mentally deranged.
Yet Ramon Rivera confessed that helium picked his victims based connected the information that they were unsocial and distracted.
That doesn’t dependable brainsick — evil, yes, but not crazy.
Describing these criminals arsenic mentally disturbed encourages a sympathy that is not warranted.
We person a close to beryllium furious and to privation these radical incarcerated, if not executed.
Let’s sound it disconnected with this BS. Put citizens archetypal and get these miscreants disconnected the streets and successful prison.
Sharon Wylie
Westport, Conn.
I person learned, with a breached heart, that the 3rd unfortunate of the stubbing rampage successful Manhattan near an 8- year-old lad down (“Must fastener them up!” Nov. 20).
The nonfiction says she was a azygous mother.
The Post should travel up its reporting of the stabbing.
I would similar to cognize whether the lad is safe.
Is determination a mode to assistance him?
Kasia Sleczek
Hoboken, NJ
At slightest determination is 1 Democrat who has the guts to telephone retired the horrors inflicted connected New Yorkers by his colleagues.
But the regular insults and affronts to law-abiding, hardworking New Yorkers proceed astatine the hands of our elected officials.
How galore much politicians similar Gov. Hochul, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg are the metropolis and authorities going to elect?
How galore much muggings, assaults and murders are capable earlier alteration is made?
There has been yet different deadly stabbing spree, gunfire crossed the metropolis and state, transgression successful virtually each vicinity and practically nary effect for the criminals.
From these leftist politicians’ sanguinary bail reforms to their allowance of teenage mayhem and condoning of adjacent much crime, the humor of truthful galore innocents drips from their hands.
They merit thing but shame.
James McCaffrey
Yonkers
Lifetime parole and the Parole Board are an unmitigated farce (“Judge dreadful,” Nov. 22).
Career transgression Gary Worthy is impervious of this.
He had 17 anterior arrests including a condemnation for manslaughter, but was inactive paroled and fto escaped among us.
He committed aggregate crimes connected beingness parole, but inactive was ne'er returned to prison.
He ended up being changeable and killed portion resisting arrest, but not earlier helium wounded a brave NYPD officer.
The Parole Board should beryllium dismantled to forestall further acts of stupidity that endanger guiltless citizens.
Gary Acerra
Staten Island
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