LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

You always hear the bad, now hear the good about Phoenix police

With all of the negative publicity about the local police I wanted to share a very positive incident.

I work at a 24-hour drugstore, and recently one of our elderly customers was having a very difficult time.

She confided to our pharmacy staff that she had just about given up hope.

Our pharmacist, with the patient’s consent, contacted the Phoenix Police Department.

Soon two officers arrived.

They sat and calmly talked to the upset woman, even holding her hand.

After 20 minutes the patient got up and willingly walked out with the officers, who had promised her to find someone to help her.

This may seem like a small incident, but I am sure that it happens all the time.

I wanted to thank the officers for their kindness and compassion.

Carl Orth, Phoenix

D-Backs show their commitment to losing at trade deadline

Congratulations to the D-Backs management. You have shown you will never be committed to having a winning season. Your latest trade of Zack Grienke proves just that.

Well done!

Patrick Neese, Phoenix

Faster than a speeding bullet on Fifth Avenue — Inferior-man!

Superman believes in truth, justice and the American way.

Inferior-man believes in lies, obstructing justice and sucking up to Russian dictators.

Superman embraces Americans of all colors, religions and ethnicities.

Inferior-man tells those Americans he hates to go back to where they came from.

Superman proudly wears the capital “S” on his chest.

Inferior-man has branded himself with a black capital “I” on his back.

Inferior-man, he’s an evolutionary step backward and a gift to late night comics!

Mike Newport, Phoenix

We know how to save pedestrian lives: Lower the speed limit

After reading one more article about pedestrian deaths in Arizona, I felt compelled to point out what is most obvious about driving here: Almost all drivers consistently exceed the speed limit, often by many miles per hour.

I doubt that many people will disagree with this observation.

It is also clear that vehicles moving at slower speeds will do less damage and have more chance to stop than speeding ones. If one change, to lower speed limits, is made and enforced, there will be fewer pedestrian deaths and vehicular crashes.

We should take a cue from NYC, which lowered its speed limit to 25 mph, after many studies supported the reduction. Their previous limit was 30 mph.

As the article in The Republic points out, the number of deaths in Phoenix rose again in 2018. The Phoenix City Council has voted against researching Vision Zero, the program begun in NYC to reduce pedestrian deaths.

I question whether anyone is really serious about reducing pedestrian deaths.

James MacKenzie, Phoenix

Dump the warmonger Bolton to ease the tension in the Gulf

Iran’s re-expansion of nuclear enrichment as well as the harassment of oil tankers in the Persian Gulf are the predictable outcome of John Bolton’s dangerous maximum-pressure strategy.

Trump needs to dump this warmonger and negotiate with the Iranians in good faith before a lot of Americans get killed.

Ali Scotten, Scottsdale