Readers sound off on crime statistics, the Midtown shooting and mail-in voting

Horror stories do not increase the crime rates of the metro

Manhattan: Marc Molinaro’s OP-ED (“crime in the metro is real name”, July 25) is fear. He claims to love statistics, and he plays with percentages to show a “dangerous and growing push” of violence.

What he omits is the number of rides that MTA customers do in the metro, and it’s nearly 4 million trips per day. Multiply this by a year. Be super conservative and estimate 700 million metro trips per year. What Molinaro quotes as the total violent crimes of the system for 2024 (177) would then imply an infinitesimal fraction – thousandths of percent – incidents occurring more than hundreds of millions of metro and cyclists.

A victim of individual crime feels the impact acutely and that the trauma must be recognized and addressed by bringing the authors to criminal and civil justice. There is the reality of crime, but how this reality is described and amplified affects our perception of relative security. Everyone – the police, employees and cavalrymen of the MTA – has a role in crime prevention.

But let’s get a correct perspective on the problem. I get into the metro almost every day. It is fundamentally sure. The promotion of this fact – and it is a fact – will indeed help our city and the MTA to ensure that public transport also feels safe as it is actually.

This, in turn, will likely improve real security. Richard Mark

Indicate where you are

Bronx: The mayor and police commissioner said that he had removed 3,000 firearms in the streets of New York, but really, how many are still there? Here is a question for the mayor, the governor and the police commissioner: should we bring back the stop and the frieze in greater force? If the answer is yes, explain why and if the answer is no, explain why New York residents can understand where these three people are and why. Jimmy Durda

Right to arms

Corrales, nm: four slaughtered in New York – four of the more than 400 other Americans taking a bullet today (more than 100 mortals). Is there a federal or federal legislative body with a majority of the GOP willing to adopt legislation on safe firearms? Right to carry weapons? What would you say about a right of arms and all parts of the bodies attached? Michael Baron

Fire power without restraint

Long branch, NJ: to President Trump, Maga, the GOP and the NRA: we have another firearm incident involving a mentally disturbed person and a semi-automatic weapon. What will it be necessary at the Congress to promulgate legislation which will prevent weapons of all kinds from the hands of mental disorders? Should a crazy weapon draw a school where NRA officials send their children? Or maybe the next NRA convention? Trump will probably blame the last shooting on Joe Biden or Barack Obama. Lenzy Kelley

Weak

Smithtown, Li: The letter of the voice Dennis Middlebrook was perfect for analyzing how Trump would have behaved as a candidate for the presidency against FDR in 1944. Trump’s propensity to admire the dictators would have offered him many opportunities to excuse the brutal and unconscious actions of Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo. Thank God, we had leaders like FDR and Winston Churchill in charge of our war effort. If Trump had won this election, we would most likely live under the dictatorial rule today. Even Trump’s mantra “America First” is a return to the same slogan used by Charles Lindbergh and his cohorts who love Hitler before Pearl Harbor to keep us away from war. Harriet litvack

Interior information?

Bronx: Trump says he has never been informed of the information contained in Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal files. However, the other day, when he was sitting next to the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at a press conference in Scotland, Trump said that former president Bill Clinton was a 28 -time guest of Epstein Frolicome Caribbean Island. He also claimed the knowledge of the former president of Harvard University, Larry Summers, after visiting the island at least seven times. Now, how could it know without being informed during a briefing? Or maybe he invents this and was at an attempt to defame Clinton and Summers. Being who he is, he probably lies on both. Carlos B. Martinez

You were there

Brooklyn: Hey, Trumpy, on which line do you get? The food line or the Epstein line? Stop lying, you were ready to grasp kittens. Carmen Lugo

No thanks

Howard Beach: Trump seems to be upset that nobody thanked him for the $ 60 million that the United States has sent food for the residents of Gaza who will die of hunger. What kind of person is unable to do the right thing without expecting anything in return? Someone like Trump. Barbara Berg

Food for sale

Margate, fla. City Monday and documented customers of the Al-Sahaba market… The documentation shows dozens of premises buying and walking on the fruit and vegetable market, where some of the products are visibly in Israel. Richard Sherman

United in Charity

Bronx: at Voice Lawrence Freedland: Congratulations on your charitable contributions to hungry children in Gaza. I give the same organizations. We have something in common and are not so different. God bless you. Gilbert M. Lane

Declared affection

Staten Island: According to the president, Harvard, Columbia and other colleges and universities must be controlled and censored by his administration because they allowed anti-Israeli demonstrations on their campuses and, according to Trump, “we love Israel.” On the other hand, when white Christian supremacists walked in Charlottesville, Virginia, singing that “the Jews will not replace us”, the president proclaimed that they were “very beautiful people”. It seems that the Maga movement likes Israel but hates the Jews. Ralph d’Esposito

Anachronistic suction

Brooklyn: at Voice Jeffrey Nelson: Thank you, I laughed a white house and bringing back the asbestos and mercury. Just go to show us that making “brilliant” America may not be so great. While we are there, we get rid of some of these vaccines that have helped avoid serious illnesses and diseases. Robert Braunstein

Reckless abandonment

Hoffman Estates, Ill.: Lee Zeldin and the EPA plan to cancel the 2009 declaration according to which greenhouse gases warming the planet constitute a threat to public health. The declaration underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change. It is also a nauseating betrayal of our children and grandchildren. Jim Arneberg

Better intel?

Eastchester, ny: to be seen Meredith MERNA: let me be straight. Based on your in -depth research, ice agents “terrorize communities, tearing up parents of children and neighboring neighborhoods – all without regular procedure”. Your investigation also revealed that they were obtaining non -violent residents and workers. Maybe your research can help ice to locate all illegal residents more effectively. Have another Kool-Aid cup! Russell Pinto

Already on the market

Crockett, California: Re “Trump’s sweet coke Deal Waginseur Us Health” (OP-ED, July 29): Pepsi-Cola offers Pepsi All-Sud-No fructose-for years. Nobody cares! Bob Ritchey

Vote when you can

Brooklyn: in Voice Laurel Turnbull: Although I do not share your support for Andrew Cuomo, I think it is a terrible shame that you were prevented from voting in the mayor’s primary due to extreme heat. I encourage you to you and all the cars, elderly or other, with health / mobility problems that could prevent them from voting in person to request a voting bulletin by mail before the general elections. You do not need to be an “absent” or to provide a specific reason to vote by mail. The voting guide you receive by post will provide instructions to request a postal bulletin and the deadline to do this. You will also have the opportunity to vote anticipated for several days. The weather could be good on at least one, and it doesn’t matter, it is unlikely that you will have to queue outside when you vote early. Katherine Raymond