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Regrettable stats
I needed to chuckle studying Rafael Mangual’s piece boasting about murders and shootings being down 19% (“Policing Pays,” PostOpinion, Aug. 31).
The identical graph exhibits car theft up by 144% and all main felonies up by 23%.
Shootings and murders, because the article discusses, are largely confined to gang members taking pictures and killing one another. Meanwhile, all main felonies, together with car theft, make victims of the remaining of us, as we lead our law-abiding lives.
I’m sure a great many of your readers would favor seeing car theft down by 19%, and could be blithely unbothered if the homicide price amongst gang members have been to modify locations on the graph.
Desmond Hussey
Wilton, Conn.
Dem deception
This piece completely illustrates the Democrats’ tactic of mendacity to you and insulating you from the reality (“Why Albany Hates Excellent Schools,” Wai Wah Chin, PostOpinion, Sept. 2)
They’ll inform you public colleges are enhancing — regardless of dismal scholar efficiency — and that constitution colleges rob money from public colleges and carry out no higher. Then, when rankings primarily based on precise knowledge are launched, they insulate you from the reality by altering the performance-reporting guidelines solely to break the status of actually glorious colleges.
Thank you to The Post for exposing the Dems’ techniques to take care of their own gravy trains and political energy, on this case on the expense of college students.
Joseph Grassi
Port St. Lucie, Fla.
A brother’s tribute
Frank Siller, what you could have achieved in your love in your brother is really a present from the almighty (“NY hero’s unending sacrifice,” Kirsten Fleming, Sept. 2).
I’m sure Stephen is wanting down on you and smiling. His spirit will dwell on in all that Tunnel to Towers has executed and will proceed to do.
God Bless you, Frank, and your loved ones, particularly Stephen’s spouse and youngsters.
Mo Colarusso
Manhattan
Schools’ snobbery
Please enable me to weigh in on The Post’s glorious editorial on school schooling (“Adapt or Die, Academia,” Sept. 1).
There’s one other downside: As a professor of business ethics at a well-known college, my three-year contract was not renewed since I didn’t possess a PhD. I’ve taught the course for 16 years as an adjunct professor, three full-time. Yet the college determined to rent a PhD with no sensible expertise.
I’ve served in company America for 40 years. Nothing towards the arduous work it takes to earn a PhD, however why not diversify and embrace these with real-world expertise?
No bitter grapes right here, however in response to my college students, the expertise I shared was invaluable. Yet one other failure of larger schooling.
Scott Ventrella
Ridgefield, Conn.
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Vance’s skinny pores and skin
Vice President JD Vance’s callous and disrespectful response to Abdul El-Sayed’s comment about his spouse exhibits how thin-skinned he actually is (“JD: Don’t talk about my wife,” Sept. 1).
He has confirmed as soon as again why he ought to overlook about working for president in 2028. All El-Sayed did was to provide Vance a dose of his own medication.
He must grow up and to study that two can play the identical recreation. He can dish out the insults, however will get all defensive when the insults are hurled at him. Obviously, El-Sayed’s comment hit a nerve, and Vance took it too personally.
J.J. Crovatto
Ramsey, NJ
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