The Difficulty: Maya Wiley’s name to cut back NYPD funding, whilst she advantages from personal safety.
Good mayoral candidate Maya Wiley declared that, if elected mayor, she is going to defund the NYPD by a staggering $1 billion (“Not Maya downside!” June 8).
Nonetheless, this candidate has uncared for to say that she lives in a fancy Brooklyn neighborhood that’s patrolled and guarded by a non-public safety agency.
Wiley desires to cut back the manpower of those that are there to guard you and me, however she considers herself too elite for the on a regular basis police safety we rely on.
Depart it to the No. #1 hypocritical phony, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, to again Wiley and her loopy liberal agenda.
I say, neglect Wiley. New Yorkers deserve a heck of loads higher than this.
Alan Brooks
Brooklyn
Wow, did I simply have my eyes opened: A politician, on this case one working for mayor, is a hypocrite. Fairly a revelation.
Wiley has personal employed police safety whereas campaigning for defunding the police for the remainder of us. She stated her accomplice paid for it.
Whereas public security and the police is the No. 1 concern, there are multitudes of those different points that can require robust management.
Let’s hear an actual chief step up and speak about what we mere mortals are speaking about to our neighbors, our kids and the individuals who care. The politicians’ silence is deafening.
Emanuel Gross
Manhattan
The Submit’s cowl says all of it: “Not Maya downside.”
This occurs on a regular basis — our nice politicians say one factor, like “defund the police,” in the meantime they reside beneath a blanket of safety.
How are you going to defund the police when crime is so rampant? What number of extra younger harmless youngsters will probably be killed, simply because you are attempting to get a vote?
Why not go into these neighborhoods and hearken to the folks together with the neighborhood leaders — they’re begging for extra police safety. They don’t have the posh of a gated neighborhood.
Sam King
Manhattan
That is precisely the sort of habits from our legislators that turns off the American public from voting. What blatant hypocrisy.
Wiley’s actions are in direct distinction to that of candidate Eric Adams. Thank God there are nonetheless level-headed, sensible folks working for workplace. Let’s simply hope he wins, and other people like her don’t.
Steve Preziosa
Deptford, NJ
Probably the most direct path to seizing weapons is, and at all times has been, stop-and-frisk. However that tactic won’t be supported by the faint-hearted candidates for mayor.
Simply the thought offends the sensibilities of politicians who pander to carry their jobs. They, in fact, aren’t in danger. Candidate Wiley’s residential space is protected by a non-public safety service.
Cease-and-frisk, denounced due to low yields, has benefit as a result of it saves lives.
Two instruments — the anti-crime models and stop-and -risk, each aborted by this mayor — had a direct destructive impression on gun violence in our metropolis. They have to be reinstated.
Phil Serpico
Queens
How comfy and reassuring it have to be to somebody like Wiley that, after a tough day, she will be able to return to her $2.7 million dwelling, guarded by personal safety.
Within the wake of the worst mayor in residing reminiscence, the election of one other progressive liberal agitator is strictly what the town doesn’t want.
The election is an opportunity to point out assist for legislation and order and the police. Ultimately, voters get what they deserve.
Robert Mangi
Westbury
Wiley has an asinine platform of defunding the police, as she friends out of her lavish brownstone ivory tower with full safety safety, whereas the neighborhoods surrounding her are rife with crime.
She’s simply one other social-justice warrior with whole disrespect and disrespect for legislation and order.
The plethora of buffoons working for mayor is staggering.
Kevin Choose
Naples, Fla.
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