NYPD requirements
In its effort to counteract the retirement of cops, the NYPD has lowered the bodily requirements for brand new recruits (“Out-of-Shape Cops Are No Answer,” Editorial, July 11).
It’s been carried out earlier than for newly employed girls recruits — and carried out efficiently. Girls police have made the NYPD a greater and extra compassionate company.
Sure, police ought to go some bodily take a look at. However they don’t need to be supermen or -women to do their job. It’s as much as them to maintain up their bodily prowess for their very own good.
Furthermore, it’s extra essential that new cops are skilled in legal legislation, procedural legislation and using lethal bodily pressure and imbued with the thought of serving the general public.
Frequent sense and the flexibility to de-escalate violent conditions means greater than having a buff physique. I do know — I served 35 years within the NYPD.
Joseph Valente
Staten Island
Fry store fiends
The disgusting conduct perpetrated by the miscreants who trashed a Decrease East Aspect french fry store is a superb illustration of what’s improper with our metropolis (“French fried fury,” July 10).
The unprovoked violence and property destruction by these offenders are unhealthy sufficient. However for 2 of them to stroll freely out of court docket and a 3rd to be held on simply $5,000 bail makes a mockery of our judicial system.
These repulsive people must be met with the strongest attainable response from our judicial system. They need to be held below stiff bail circumstances, given speedy trials and, if convicted, given the utmost attainable sentences out there below legislation. Sufficient is sufficient.
Town owes it to its law-abiding residents to make examples out of those uncivilized degenerates.
Peter Janoff
Manhattan
BDS bigotry
“Hate at Harvard” (J.J. Kimche and Angélique Talmor, PostScript, July 10) exemplifies how anti-Semitism continues to thrive on this self-aggrandizing bastion of educational excellence and freedom.
In 1922, in search of to restrict the variety of Jews getting into the college, Harvard’s president A. Lawrence Lowell was fairly express in ensuring each member of the school understood that Harvard had a “Jew downside.”
The Boycott, Divest and Sanction motion is however a intelligent try to cope with the “Jew downside” by delegitimizing the state of Israel and demeaning the “Jew” each on faculty campuses and in society at giant.
S.P. Hersh
Lawrence
Comply with the Brits
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson — a populist, like Donald Trump — has resigned as a result of his celebration didn’t help his shenanigans (“Boris is Downing & out,” July 8).
Although he introduced them votes, they condemned his lack of integrity, his flamboyant fashion and his tone-deaf technique of governing.
Why can’t the Republican Social gathering study from this episode and understand that it, too, should depart Trump behind?
Trump is a legal responsibility to the celebration. He’s with out regret for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, and to this present day he has not conceded he misplaced the 2020 election.
He’s not democratically inclined and his puerile grievances about buddies and foes alike are rancid.
Usha Nellore
Bel Air, Md.
‘Taco’ gaffe
First Woman Jill Biden stored the household custom of fumbling and bumbling as she insultingly addressed a Latino group, calling them “breakfast tacos” (“Jill’s ‘taco’ belt,” July 13).
Does she additionally carry a bottle of salsa in her purse à la Hillary Clinton’s sizzling sauce?
Joe Alloy
Wayne, NJ
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