Opinion

NYCLU VS. NYPD: WHO’S GOT YOUR BACK?

Heather Mac Donald proves that the real culprit here is the New York Civil Liberties Union (“How Cop Bashers Menace Minorities,” PostOpinion, Aug. 11).

As long as it pretends to be the guardian of minorities, this carnage of murders, including all of the innocent victims who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, will never cease.

Pandora is ever present, for these liberals have created a box of insanity along with political correctness.

Richard Homer Bucco

Bloomfield, NJ

The NYCLU has reinforced the irrelevancy of its dubious existence. Its latest cop-bashing is in the form of a lawsuit requesting a tally of the race of civilians shot by cops.

It is important to place such data in proper perspective.

I teach my statistics students to be aware of flawed and fragmented data used to support distorted views, and the NYCLU’s request is a prime example.

To provide relevant data, the NYPD must also release the race of civilians whom cops have confronted and not shot, plus a tally of the race of civilians whom cops protect.

That is, the ratio of the number of cops per capita for all neighborhoods and the number of confrontations per neighborhood.

Additionally, the NYPD must also release a tally of the race of civilians who shoot other civilians and the race of their victims.

Statistics will show that there is a direct relationship between the race of civilians shot by cops and the race of civilians who do the shooting.

It seems logical enough – but probably not to the NYCLU.

Elio Valenti

Brooklyn

Unfortunately, headhunters such as the far-left-minded NYCLU will continue to undermine the progress that the NYPD has made until some police officers decide it isn’t worth risking their $40,000, near-poverty-level rookie pay.

Then the NYCLU will file another lawsuit claiming that the police don’t protect citizens. Soon there’ll be no more police.

Slap a badge on NYCLU Associate Legal Director Christopher Dunn for one week and let him patrol Wheeler Avenue in The Bronx.

He wouldn’t last a night.

Vincent Terracciano

Naperville, Ill.

Mac Donald’s article is a refreshingly honest take on what cops have to think about every day: “If I do my job, I may be indicted.”

Police officers in this city put their lives on the line every day, and they do it knowing that they are mostly unappreciated by everyone, especially the politicians.

We have to start standing up for the men and women who go out every day to places that most of us only see on the news. Who is watching their backs?

The NYCLU should spend some time with the cops in this city. Go out with them, do a car stop, walk up to the side of a car that was reported stolen and try to see through those blacked-out windows.

But they never will. They are too busy filing lawsuits against the police department for knocking someone off a bicycle.

Dawn Menoni

Staten Island

If the NYPD listened to every anti-police organization, citizens would barely be safe enough to peek out the window to witness the carnage, much less leave home.

Yet if the police had their hands completely untied to perform more efficiently, there would be more police incidents to criticize.

One solution is to remove police protection from groups like the NYCLU so they can see firsthand that it is their neighbors they should fear, not our heroes in blue or their tactics.

This would give the NYCLU even more reason to sue the police, but its officials would not make it to courthouse alive to file their briefs.

David Bergstein

Manhattan