Readers sound off on Jessica Tisch, the L.A. wildfires and Greenland’s capital

How is simply a non-cop the close prime for apical cop?

Manhattan: As a New York City nonmigratory and non-politician, I disagree with the mayor’s enactment of Jessica Tisch to caput the New York Police Department.

In spite of the mayor’s effusive and grandiose touting of this appointee’s resume, a stint arsenic a lawman NYPD commissioner and tenure arsenic commissioner of the Department of Sanitation, arsenic good arsenic being an astute manager, bash not successful my presumption construe arsenic qualifications to pb a paramilitary unit of much than 30,000 constabulary officers.

It would look that retired of a apical tier of constabulary deputies, galore with 15 and 20 oregon much years’ acquisition with expansive cognition of policing, including the latest exertion and anti-terror techniques, idiosyncratic from this radical could beryllium selected to pb the department. These constabulary backgrounds see acquisition with thoroughfare patrol arsenic good arsenic the grim-and-grime realities of policing.

This is not to accidental that Tisch is not well-meaning, but if I were a seasoned constabulary officer, I would not beryllium inspired oregon privation to travel her into immoderate out-of-control concern requiring constabulary interaction.

As a national of this city, I recognize that determination is ever a spot successful immoderate ample enactment for information collecting, absorption skills and forward-thinking ideas. Such individuals tin beryllium invaluable assets arsenic unit members of the department. But by this appointment, some the constabulary and New Yorkers are ill-served. B. Wallace Cheatham

Mayor material

Greenburgh, N.Y.: In caller weeks, the Daily News has published stories astir the upcoming contention for mayor. I would similar to impulse NYC residents to promote Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch to run. She is the benignant of politician NYC needs. The Harvard-educated authoritative has impressed galore radical during her years arsenic commissioner of 3 important metropolis agencies. She highlighted her quality to code quality-of-life issues by waging warfare against rats and taking steps to marque streets cleaner during her tenure arsenic Sanitation commissioner. She is presently being praised for her efforts to get escaped of atrocious apples wrong the constabulary force. She worked connected exertion issues arsenic commissioner of the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications. Her extremity is to get the occupation done and she is showing that she won’t tolerate corruption. NYC deserves the best. I deliberation Tisch is what the metropolis needs. Paul Feiner

Homeless and harmless

Manhattan: Re “A amended intelligence unwellness approach” (editorial, Jan. 5): You write, “Recent underground horrors punctual america of the request for action. There was the arson homicide of a pistillate astatine the Coney Island station, and the caught-on-camera shove onto the level of a antheral successful Chelsea.” But the suspects successful each of these incidents were neither stateless nor had a past of intelligence illness, truthful neither would person qualified for involuntary treatment. Making the subways safer for everyone is simply a worthy goal, but the involuntary committedness of “folks sprawled connected benches” who are deemed mentally sick but who haven’t done thing incorrect is not the close way. James Baldwin

Self-induced

Staten Island: It is hard to ticker what is going connected with the fires successful California. My woman and I are sick seeing it. How could determination beryllium nary h2o to combat the fires? They are adjacent to the biggest water connected the planet. But they person a politician who went connected abrogation knowing what was coming — this aft cutting the occurrence department’s budget. They person a politician who rejected plans to guarantee a much-needed proviso of h2o due to the fact that helium felt the wellbeing of immoderate food was a higher priority. They person a occurrence main who felt that DEI hiring was much important than the information of the radical who unrecorded there. While I bash not privation thing atrocious for these mediocre residents, they voted for these people. They are the lone ones who tin marque definite this doesn’t hap again. When you ballot for incompetent people, you get incompetence. Tony Anastasio

Make it rain

Plainview, L.I.: How travel our scientists didn’t deliberation astir artificially inducing the rainfall needed for the California wildfires? Shooting metallic oxide into the ambiance done a process called unreality seeding, which fundamentally provides particles of h2o droplets to condense astir and signifier precipitation. This tin beryllium done by airplane oregon ground-based devices that disperse the substance into existing clouds. This perchance could person helped. Frank Mauceri

Leaders successful the field

Manhattan: There is simply a mode for Los Angeles to debar ever moving retired of h2o again. There is simply a state that has an adjacent drier clime than L.A. that utilized to ever beryllium abbreviated of h2o and whose fields were deliberately acceptable connected occurrence by its enemies. That state developed exertion for extracting caller h2o from the water and present produces truthful overmuch h2o that it fills a freshwater water and exports h2o and cultivation produce. All Los Angeles has to bash is wage it to acceptable up desalination plants. That state is Israel. Gamaliel Isaac

Hard copy

New Brunswick, N.J.: Kudos to J.T. Barbarese for the homage to people (“The elemental joyousness of speechmaking newspapers,” op-ed, Jan. 10). While I transitioned to tablet for the Daily News owed to galore factors — unreliable delivery, weather, mobility, to notation a fewer — I miss holding a paper successful my hands. My dentist tried to person maine to work connected Kindle. I told him that sometimes I do. But there’s thing similar the consciousness of a hardcover publication oregon the inkiness of a newspaper. You’re correct, J.T.: penning benignant and integrity person been exchanged for expediency. By the clip you get the paper, it’s yesterday’s news. T.M. Cembor

Cheating the system

East Meadow, L.I.: Re the Social Security Fairness Act: What is unfair is paying Social Security benefits to workers who didn’t lend to the Social Security system. They worked successful jobs, successful municipalities, that don’t enactment successful the program. Why should they payment from thing they didn’t, oregon minimally, lend to? Greg Hecht

Ex-prez fluctuation

Manhattan: Before Jimmy Carter died, we had 5 ex-presidents live astatine erstwhile (Carter, Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama and Trump). It’s 4 present and volition spell backmost to 5 successful a fewer days, erstwhile Biden joins the database and Trump leaves the list. I noticed that, similar Carter, Harry Truman besides died betwixt Christmas and New Year’s Eve (Dec. 26, 1972), and besides died arsenic a statesmanlike word was ending and different was astir to start. Not a alteration of presidents, though, arsenic Richard Nixon had been elected to a 2nd word successful a landslide triumph implicit George McGovern. Lyndon Johnson survived Truman by little than 4 weeks, leaving america without a surviving ex-president until Nixon resigned successful August 1974. Charles Adrian O’Connor

Fool incoming

Manhattan: Long ago, a fashionable opus opened with “Fools unreserved successful wherever omniscient men utilized to tread.” It came to caput arsenic I watched the ceremonial for Jimmy Carter, a omniscient man, and watched Donald Trump not spot his manus implicit his bosom erstwhile the casket was astatine his row. Even Melania did that. A fool — a disdainful antheral — named Trump is rushing in. I americium not unsocial successful feeling fearful for our country. Frankie Turchiano

He’s 1 of us

Tamarac, Fla.: For those Democrats whose ngo was to destruct Trump passim the years to the present, get implicit it! He is not your enemy. He ne'er was and ne'er volition be. Trump is going to beryllium your adjacent president and volition proudly correspond you and the state you unrecorded in! His woman Melania is going to beryllium the adjacent archetypal woman of your state and volition execute her duties with pridefulness and dignity. So, Trump-haters, however astir acting similar bully grown-ups by mustering a small pridefulness and dignity of your own. Accept your 47th president arsenic the American you are, not arsenic the force you chose to be. Roberta Chaleff

Capital confusion

Ashburn, Va.: Everyone wonders wherefore Trump wants Greenland truthful badly. The reply is simple: He thinks the superior of Greenland is named “Nookie.” Not to worry, though. When helium finds retired the superior is really named Nuuk, he’ll instantly hide the full thing. Mike Barrett