The DOI’s Blast of the NYPD

THE ISSUE: A Department of Investigation report that found the NYPD escalated tensions at summer protests.

I guess the Department of Investigation was watching another series of demonstrations than we, the public, were seeing on the news (“NYPD upped tensions at BLM rallies: report,” Dec. 19).

Most likely due to orders from City Hall, the police response was remarkably restrained in trying to control the “peaceful” protesters, who broke store windows, looted merchandise, threw bottles and chunks of concrete at officers, shined lasers in the eyes of officers and threw a Molotov cocktail into a police vehicle.

The DOI lives in the world of political correctness, which dictates that when protesters act as described above, it is because they are acting out of “justifiable anger,” but when police perform their duty to protect lives and property, they are committing unjustifiable violence.

Saul Ash

Massapequa

A report just released shows the NYPD in a negative light at the time of the George Floyd protests.

What’s worse is that

Mayor de Blasio agrees with the report, basically saying the police did a poor job.

It is sad to see no support whatsoever from either the mayor or governor. They both are responsible for handcuffing the NYPD from doing its job by letting protesters loot and vandalize property.

The NYPD had no control of the protesters because our mayor and governor coddled them.

Joseph Comperchio

Brooklyn

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