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.
Manhattan: Re “Delete the NYPD gang database” (op-ed, Dec. 19): The piece assembles a long list of misrepresentations to indict the database as a racist tool of oppression, including comparisons with poorly run gang databases in Chicago and California. The answer to whether the NYPD is “engaging in similar misconduct” to other jurisdictions is an unequivocal “no.”