Ritchie Torres scolds Mayor Adams after crime spree: Letters to the Editor — Nov. 29, 2024
The Issue: Rep. Ritchie Torres criticizing city and state leadership after a flurry of stabbings.
Finally, a Democrat with common sense has called out the governor and mayor (“Blood on your hands,” Nov. 25).
Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres speaks from the heart, while Mayor Adams and Gov. Hochul speak from both sides of the mouth.
Adams uses the City Council as an excuse for his hands being tied.
He needs to take a page out of Torres’ book and challenge Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, who continues to resist changes to the city’s sanctuary status. Instead, he dares to call Adams his “sister.”
A run for governor is in the works, apparently.
Torres has my vote.
Nicholas Maffei
Yonkers
What kind of civilized society allows for a mentally deranged individual to roam freely in New York City and randomly commit heinous acts of violence?
While this is an extreme version, this incident is by no means an isolated one.
Once again, we see how society has neglected mental health.
This is a national problem, and it’s not going away anytime soon.
This clearly is not a welcomed topic for many of our elected officials to entertain nor correct.
For some patients, no outpatient treatment, even if they did consent, is the answer.
There is a segment of the population that simply requires admission to inpatient facilities.
The only problem is that the bulk of these facilities have closed.
Ronald G. Frank
West Orange, NJ
We are told repeatedly that these attackers are mentally deranged.
Yet Ramon Rivera confessed that he picked his victims based on the fact that they were alone and distracted.
That doesn’t sound crazy — evil, yes, but not crazy.
Describing these criminals as mentally disturbed encourages a sympathy that is not warranted.
We have a right to be furious and to want these people incarcerated, if not executed.
Let’s knock it off with this BS. Put citizens first and get these miscreants off the streets and in prison.
Sharon Wylie
Westport, Conn.
I have learned, with a broken heart, that the third victim of the stubbing rampage in Manhattan left an 8- year-old son behind (“Must lock them up!” Nov. 20).
The article says she was a single mother.
The Post should follow up its reporting of the stabbing.
I would like to know whether the boy is safe.
Is there a way to help him?
Kasia Sleczek
Hoboken, NJ
At least there is one Democrat who has the guts to call out the horrors inflicted on New Yorkers by his colleagues.
But the daily insults and affronts to law-abiding, hardworking New Yorkers continue at the hands of our elected officials.
How many more politicians like Gov. Hochul, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg are the city and state going to elect?
How many more muggings, assaults and murders are enough before change is made?
There has been yet another deadly stabbing spree, gunfire across the city and state, crime in virtually every neighborhood and practically no consequence for the criminals.
From these leftist politicians’ sanguinary bail reforms to their allowance of teenage mayhem and condoning of even more crime, the blood of so many innocents drips from their hands.
They deserve nothing but shame.
James McCaffrey
Yonkers
Lifetime parole and the Parole Board are an unmitigated farce (“Judge dreadful,” Nov. 22).
Career criminal Gary Worthy is proof of this.
He had 17 prior arrests including a conviction for manslaughter, but was still paroled and let loose among us.
He committed multiple crimes on lifetime parole, but still was never returned to prison.
He ended up being shot and killed while resisting arrest, but not before he wounded a brave NYPD officer.
The Parole Board should be dismantled to prevent further acts of stupidity that endanger innocent citizens.
Gary Acerra
Staten Island
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