A Particularly Heinous Crime

The assault on Ray Alvarez, the 90-year-old owner of Ray’s Candy Store, is a particularly heinous, cowardly and despicable crime (“Arrests sweet justice for elderly owner of candy store,” Feb. 5).

Now that Alvarez’s alleged assailants have been apprehended, The Post should track and report this case through the criminal-justice system to educate the public on how these vile crooks are ultimately dealt with by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office. Will these repulsive deviants get the prosecution they deserve? If there’s ever a case for zero leniency, this is it. Peter Janoff Stamford, Conn.

I want to thank The Post for its coverage of the horrible attack on Ray Alvarez.

When you read about

something like this, it really makes you wonder how Chirlane McCray could have once claimed that a police-free city “would be like a nirvana, a utopia.”

This vicious assault should make us all aware of what happens when New York becomes more and more police-free. John Francis Fox

Sunnyside