Rikers’ dine-and-dasher and more: Letters – Latest News
Not a crime to dine
It amazes me that dine-and-dash diva Pei Chung, whose crimes are all nonviolent and pertain to her skipping out on the dinner invoice, sits in a cell on Rikers Island (“Dine dasher ducks court,” Feb. 5).
Meanwhile, I learn tales about subway slashers and violent repeat offenders who’re in some way nonetheless out on the streets. What’s happening on this metropolis that it’s powerful to inform which criminals are actually harmful? Let Chung out of jail to make room for the people that basically need to be there.
Jack Jacobs
Vero Beach, Fla.
Renters in disaster
Your article on New York City’s rental market says a rent freeze would “further discourage rent stabilized tenants from moving . . . making it more difficult for incoming New Yorkers to find a home” (“Rental health crisis,” Feb. 5).
So, rent-stabilized tenants ought to transfer — however the place? The tacit implication right here is, who cares as long as they transfer, so another person can transfer in? That’s the grasping philosophy of somebody within the lodge business, not a housing business.
Diane Moriarty
Manhattan
Step apart, Powell
For the better good of the nation, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell must step down as chairman and let Kevin Warsh take over as quickly as potential to decrease rates of interest now (“Don’s Fed pick jest,” Feb. 2).
President Trump has signaled to the American people that he’s desperate to take full possession of and duty for the US financial system. Powell ought to step apart and let Trump — for higher or worse — own it.
Luana Dunn
Glen Burnie, Md.
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Protect the Blue
I need to commend The Post for writing in regards to the homicide of Officer Pradeep Tamang in Georgia after an unprovoked assault. (“Officer killed in Ga. hotel,” Feb. 3).
Articles like these show simply how badly we need to help police officers.
John Francis Fox
Sunnyside
We need ICE out
Corey DeAngelis shows an excessive callousness towards the academics and schoolchildren he professes to need to help (“ ‘Union’ of teachers and Dems,” PostOpinion, Feb. 4).
Educators in Minneapolis are defending our college students. They, their college students and their households are terrified by what Homeland Security is doing.
It’s not simply what occurred to 5-year-old Liam Ramos or nurse Alex Pretti or mother Renee Good. Tear gasoline and flash-bangs are routine; the nation has seen the footage throughout TV and social media.
We need ICE out of Minnesota as a result of it’s ICE that’s doing the weaponizing. We try to guard younger people from this abuse of energy. It’s very arduous to give attention to studying or math when you’re in mortal worry that your dad or mum will probably be disappeared.
If Corey actually cared about children’ futures, he’d be part of us in reining in ICE so educators can get back to instructing, fairly than having to help children address the trauma and chaos that ICE creates day-after-day.
Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers president
Manhattan
Taiwan’s dilemma
The United States ought to encourage Taiwan to simply accept China, and be one nation with two completely different systems, like Hong Kong (“Don’s diplomatic phone call with Xi,” Feb. 5).
Why ought to a tiny island that’s acknowledged by most of the world as half of China generate so many issues?
Bob Barrett
Clark, NJ
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