Trump never tried to unite this country

San Diego awaits a better policing policy

Re “Mental health calls” (Dec. 3): The enhancement of San Diego’s Psychological Emergency Response Teams and Mobile Crisis Response Teams necessitates proper dispatch and response time improvements. After my brother’s preventable suicide, I have sought several reforms to little avail.

The incoming mayor’s office, which has had an open ear to this issue, must take adequate steps to both bolster the quality of the mobile crisis service continuum and improve response times. Appropriate office facilities in the Police Department’s nine neighborhood divisions would allow our police dispatchers, already some of the most capable in the nation, to have teams arrive on-scene when it matters most.

Officers, as well, often exceed California standards when it comes to mental health. There is, however, always work to be done. Adequate continuing education, hands-on-training and regular refreshers on how to support these teams in their work will save lives. All eyes are on Todd Gloria.

State not doing its job on jobless benefits

Re “State jobless benefits debacle hard to exaggerate” (Dec. 2): The California Employment Development

If you can go shopping, you can go and vote

Re “Don’t turn back the clock on voting options” (Nov. 3): To the letter writer my question is this: Do you go to the grocery store? Do you go get gas? Do you go out and about on various chores? Then why can’t you

go out and vote?

In-person voting is clearly the most secure way to vote. Comparing signatures and verifying the voter is a legal voter is a must. Flooding the states with mail-in ballots is absurd. You give cheaters an easy way to cheat. The vast majority of people should vote in person.

It is my opinion that a lot of weird things happened in this election. A lot of cheating went on. At this point I have no confidence that this was a fair election. A lot of things do not add up.

Efforts to undermine election are nonsense

Re “Most voters should have to vote in person” (Nov. 27): The two letter writers have several problems in their argument. First, the call for mail-in ballots is not due to the shortsightedness of the “left.” It’s an effort to make voting easier and, in a pandemic, safer.

And because elections are run by the state and local governments, in-person voting also makes voter suppression far too easy. The idea that mail-in voting panders to the lazy is just offensive. The claim that it increases fraud opportunities is also baseless and without evidence.

Finally, stating that the

Supreme Court should invalidate the election and the entire country should vote again, because the author “thinks there are millions of suspicious ballots” and there have been “lawsuits for election violations” is worse than nonsense. Their thoughts and random nuisance lawsuits are not evidence.

Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security team has pronounced this election as the most secure in American history.

On Nov. 1, 1968, my son was born, but a few days later I went to the local high school gymnasium to wait in line to vote for my first time. After two hours, and no end in sight, I went home without voting for Richard Nixon. Pretty sure these letter writers never stood in line to vote after giving birth, from their letters insisting voting should involve standing in line.

San Diego has too many people to expect us all to

show up to vote in one day, one week or one month. Republicans need to stop insisting mail-in voting is rife with fraud without any proof. That is a slap in the face of the county Registrar of Voters employees. Shame on you.

Re “Trump has only himself to blame for big loss” (Nov. 27): The letter writer well said why Donald Trump lost the election.

There is one other reason why Trump lost. He has made it perfectly clear that he is not the president of all American people, he is only the president of those people who are loyal to him, and to him alone, not America (first), not the Constitution, to him alone.

He was voted out by all those people who understand he is not their president.

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