Staten Island: Reading your article "EMTs chase down car as it rolled away carrying wounded gun victims" (May 24) reminded me of an old TV show's closing lines, "There are 8 million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them." Thank you for highlighting the uplifting work of these two FDNY Emergency Medical Services heroes. They are members of N.Y.'s Best, NYC's smallest first responder service performing an outsized role.
White Plains, N.Y.: Last week, three children and three adults were killed at a Christian school in Nashville. Every year, nearly 4,000 children are shot and killed and 15,000 more are injured in the United States. Firearms are now the leading cause of death of American children and teens.
Manhattan: Please don’t abandon bail reform. Our criminal justice system is bloated, ineffective and, most importantly, cruel and unjust. We are overdue for this opportunity, this racial reckoning, and need to do the challenging work for justice. Beware the whiplash of the pendulum swinging back to the past.