Going Easy on Looters: DAs’ Move To Drop Cases
Too many New Yorkers seem to be determined to surrender the streets to the outlaws and will continue to vote for liberal radicals like Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance and Bronx DA Darcel Clark (“Let ’em loot,” June 21).
Their decision not to prosecute the violent protesters who assaulted police officers and looted businesses during the summer riots is nothing more than a political strategy.
Here in New York, the justice system, from DAs to judges, keeps the jails empty with the blessings of Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo.
Vance and Clark have sent an imprudent message to the thugs. It is also a dire warning to the police, residents and store owners that it is going to be a long, hot summer in New York. Nicholas Maffei
Bronxville
Well now I know how to do my Christmas shopping for December 2021. I am just going to wait for the next “peaceful demonstration” in Manhattan and The Bronx.
Even if I get caught looting and rioting, I won’t have to worry. The district attorneys of these two boroughs are going to drop any charges filed against me. Isn’t anarchy grand? Kim Cody
Whitestone
The Bronx and Manhattan district attorneys’ decisions to vacate pending charges against the criminal wrongdoers for rioting and pilfering in 2020 is downright contemptible.
This type of judicial malfeasance is an unjust endangerment to the safety and well-being of the respective borough residents. Business owners’ livelihoods are also burdened with the negative impact of such lawbreaking indifference.
The indignation that city residents are being subjected to is outlandish. The only way to alleviate such abominable living conditions is for the people to allow their resentment to be heard in a resounding way when voting. If not, the adage “You reap what you sow” becomes pertinent. Denis David
East Rockaway
Prosecuting last year’s looters and rioters is hard, tedious, unglamorous work. That doesn’t work for Cy Vance.
He would prefer to earn the plaudits of the woke media and waste the taxpayers’ money by going after President Donald Trump.
Thomas McDonough
Vero Beach, Fla.
Reading The Post yesterday was like reading the obituary for a oncegreat city: no prosecution for looters and rioters, mayhem in Washington Square Park, subway crime and shootings.
Rest in peace, New York City. Jacob Levine
Long Branch, NJ
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