Police do not cause the problems

Manhattan: Scott Stringer (“How to really police the police,” op-ed, Nov. 20) shows that he not only shares Mayor de Blasio’s backward priorities — he is doubling down on them. The number of shootings in New York City has nearly doubled this year, and murders are up by more than a third. What New Yorkers need to hear from both the current mayor and those vying to replace him are real, actionable plans to stop the violence. Instead, they’ve gotten inaction from de Blasio, and from the controller, something even worse: a vague and sweeping promise to pander to his newfound radical friends and further undermine the NYPD.

New Yorkers of every political stripe have had it with de Blasio’s bumbling destruction of our city. Does Stringer really think they’ll embrace his promise to destroy it more efficiently?

Patrick J. Lynch, president Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York