Letting a Park Go to Ruin: Blas’ Blindness to Mayhem
Mayor de Blasio abandoned the city during his failed run for president, making him “the national idiot” (“DeB ‘didn’t see a problem’!?!” June 18).
The clueless progressive has abandoned the city again by failing to acknowledge the worst crime crisis since the 1970s or to do anything to protect the people who pay his and his wife’s hefty salaries.
Kathryn Donnelly Queens
As a native New Yorker who did not flee the crime waves and lower quality of life during the 1970s-1990s, I’m am reconsidering (“Bloodshed, Bedlam & Clueless Blas,” Editorial, June 15).
Another criminal rampage beset Washington Square Park recently, ending in 14 shootings, two knifings, vicious assaults, attacks on businesses and more, as the NYPD was held at bay.
Mayor de Blasio’s answer to the depravity that went on in the park? A “natural” resolution will work things out, whatever that may mean.
If we had a choice between a natural resolution against the high crime rate or allowing the NYPD to do their job, I’ll choose the NYPD.
J. Marie Norris Brooklyn
Our mayor has decided to turn a blind eye to the problem.
A curfew was suppose to be in place a week or two ago, but our mayor is holding the NYPD from performing its duties.
It is no longer safe to walk through the park or even around it after the sun is down. Assaults, drug use and loud music make it total mayhem there — a Sodom and Gomorrah at night, all because the mayor refuses to acknowledge the out-of-control situation.
What’s it going to take before he wakes up?
Joseph Comperchio Brooklyn
So the residents around Washington Square Park are upset by the disorder? What did they expect?
They helped elect government officials who enacted no-bail reform, emptied half of Rikers Island, disbanded the anticrime units and removed limited liability for the police.
Then there are prosecutors who will not prosecute and judges who are soft on criminals.
On top of that, the residents helped elect a doofus mayor — not once but twice. Gary Layton
Interlaken, NJ
THE ISSUE: Mayor de Blasio’s lack of response to rising crime and disorder in Washington Square Park.