By New York Post (Opinion) | Created at 2026-09-05 14:47:00 | Updated at 2026-09-05 16:17:41
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NYPD officers work the scene where a 13-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man were shot on Friday, August 28, 2026, in the area of 39th Avenue and 104th Street in Queens, New York.
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Regrettable stats
I had to chuckle reading Rafael Mangual’s piece boasting about murders and shootings being down 19% (“Policing Pays,” PostOpinion, Aug. 31).
The same graph shows car theft up by 144% and all major felonies up by 23%.
Shootings and murders, as the article discusses, are largely confined to gang members shooting and killing each other. Meanwhile, all major felonies, including car theft, make victims of the rest of us, as we lead our law-abiding lives.
I’m sure a great many of your readers would prefer seeing car theft down by 19%, and would be blithely unbothered if the murder rate among gang members were to switch places on the graph.
Desmond Hussey
Wilton, Conn.
Dem deception
This piece perfectly illustrates the Democrats’ tactic of lying to you and insulating you from the truth (“Why Albany Hates Excellent Schools,” Wai Wah Chin, PostOpinion, Sept. 2)
They’ll tell you public schools are improving — despite dismal student performance — and that charter schools rob money from public schools and perform no better. Then, when rankings based on actual data are released, they insulate you from the truth by changing the performance-reporting rules solely to damage the reputation of truly excellent schools.
Thank you to The Post for exposing the Dems’ tactics to maintain their own gravy trains and political power, in this case at the expense of students.
Joseph Grassi
Port St. Lucie, Fla.
A brother’s tribute
Frank Siller, what you have accomplished in your love for your brother is truly a gift from the almighty (“NY hero’s unending sacrifice,” Kirsten Fleming, Sept. 2).
I’m sure Stephen is looking down on you and smiling. His spirit will live on in all that Tunnel to Towers has done and will continue to do.
God Bless you, Frank, and your family, especially Stephen’s wife and children.
Mo Colarusso
Manhattan
Schools’ snobbery
Please allow me to weigh in on The Post’s excellent editorial on college education (“Adapt or Die, Academia,” Sept. 1).
There’s another problem: As a professor of business ethics at a well-known university, my three-year contract was not renewed since I did not possess a PhD. I’ve taught the course for 16 years as an adjunct professor, three full-time. Yet the university decided to hire a PhD with no practical experience.
I’ve served in corporate America for 40 years. Nothing against the hard work it takes to earn a PhD, but why not diversify and include those with real-world experience?
No sour grapes here, but according to my students, the experience I shared was invaluable. Yet another failure of higher education.
Scott Ventrella
Ridgefield, Conn.
Vance’s thin skin
Vice President JD Vance’s callous and disrespectful response to Abdul El-Sayed’s remark about his wife shows how thin-skinned he really is (“JD: Don’t talk about my wife,” Sept. 1).
He has proven once again why he should forget about running for president in 2028. All El-Sayed did was to give Vance a dose of his own medicine.
He needs to grow up and to learn that two can play the same game. He can dish out the insults, but gets all defensive when the insults are hurled at him. Obviously, El-Sayed’s remark hit a nerve, and Vance took it too personally.
J.J. Crovatto
Ramsey, NJ
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