Readers sound off on body cameras, Trump's future and Alec Baldwin - New York Daily News

Seattle: A super-sized manufacture worthy of mustard-gilded Big Mac arches, the world-dominant U.S. situation strategy incarcerates immoderate 2 cardinal people. An opaquely estimated 5% are unjustly imprisoned. More than one-third of these tin beryllium ascribed to constabulary malpractice, according to the National Registry of Exonerations successful 2020.

Police-worn assemblage cameras indispensable beryllium federally institutionalized, but Washington’s 2021 legislative twelvemonth concluded without a azygous introductory measure for assemblage camera appropriations. At an mean outgo of $1,000 per device, 1 body-worn camera connected each sworn serviceman successful the onshore would beryllium precipitously cheaper than the Department of Defense’s 3D-printed commode lids successful 2018 astatine $10,000 a pop.

However, it’s not conscionable the outgo of the device. It’s the underestimated disbursal of information storage, associated hardware and instrumentality and the further unit needed to reappraisal footage.

Yet assemblage cameras connected constabulary output myriad expense-recouping benefits, chiefly trust- and credibility-building audio and video transparency of interactions betwixt instrumentality enforcement and the public. They are invaluable evidentiary mediums for interior and outer investigations. Lucent objectivity replaces unreliably biased oregon mendacious witnesser grounds and/or constabulary narratives. The device’s specified disposable beingness serves arsenic a guardian against atrocious behavior. Police are much apt to behaviour themselves ethically, professionally and by the book. Likewise, nationalist tempers beryllium to beryllium much contained.

Federally mandated assemblage cameras for constabulary would beryllium a productive archetypal measurement to restoring religion successful justice. Scott R. Hammond

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Brooklyn: Fun fact: If you played violin successful an orchestra and you missed 1% of the notes, you’d beryllium fired wrong an hour. But if you are an American constabulary serviceman and you missed 80% of your targets, with astir of your bullets going astray (into people’s homes, cars and bodies), you would beryllium promoted and rewarded successful each case. Personally, I deliberation stray bullets are much superior than bum notes by a musician, but I’m intelligibly unsocial connected this. Are determination immoderate EU nations that openly instrumentality successful Americans? Mildred Manham

Ridgewood: As a parent of a young child, I americium particularly acrophobic astir the greenhouse gas-caused clime catastrophe we are presently creating for our young people. I applaud Mayor Adams for acting to get polluting fossil fuels retired of our schools, and for each the reasons Kizzy Charles-Guzman spells retired (“Why we request to electrify NYC schools,” op-ed, Nov. 8). The city’s $4 cardinal concern successful electrification and ratio upgrades successful schools, arsenic good arsenic requiring caller schoolhouse operation to beryllium electric, volition wage retired successful improvements to aerial quality, clime enactment and health. Environmental justness volition beryllium served by prioritizing schools successful the astir polluted neighborhoods. Local Law 97 additionally requires ample commercialized and residential buildings to radically chopped greenhouse state emissions. New York City buildings relationship for 70% of our clime pollution. The City Council indispensable enactment to adjacent the loophole successful the instrumentality that presently allows the richest gathering owners to support polluting by buying renewable vigor credits. They excessively indispensable put successful a greenish future. Chandra Bocci

Bronx: To Voicer Robert Lobenstein: Your missive to The News displays a profound ignorance that tin beryllium easy remedied by looking up communism and socialism successful a dictionary. Since you are quoting Trump, who doesn’t read, I presume you don’t either. Let maine amended you: Communism is simply a strategy of authorities successful which the authorities plans and controls the system and a single, often authoritarian, enactment holds power. Socialism is besides an economical strategy wherever the authorities controls accumulation and finance. No 1 successful the United States is proposing either. Randall Borra

Staten Island: I was wondering wherefore nary media outlets notation that Gov. Hochul lone won 13 of the 62 counties successful New York. If predetermination outcomes were decided differently, determination is nary mode she would person won. The Democratic bastions and NYC enactment her successful place. If anyone cares to look astatine a region map, they would intelligibly spot the crushed upstate wishes to interruption distant from the city, on with Staten Island wishing to secede. A. James Tortora

Brick, N.J.: Donald Trump is the undisputed person of today’s Republican Party — its fuhrer. All Republican members of Congress recognize this, and truthful should the galore millions of mean citizens who unfailingly formed their votes for him and for his Congressional and gubernatorial surrogates. They bash this for an initially law president but then, aft consolidating each authorities power, arsenic ultimate and perpetual ruler of America! I tin perceive already: “Don’t beryllium ridiculous, Nick!” But Trump has already attempted a coup, has helium not? So among galore dozens of questions to beryllium addressed and answered, delight let this one: At what constituent volition his supporters, chiefly Christians, admit his immoral conduct, his changeless lying and his treasonous activities arsenic president and yet wantonness their lord and master? As these avid cultists look devoid of shame, my reply is never! Nicholas Molinari

Suffern, N.Y.: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis shouldn’t judge immoderate rides connected the Trump Force One jet. He could extremity up connected Martha’s Vineyard. Rick Sinclair

Guttenberg, N.J.: Donald Trump got the reddish question connected Tuesday, but it was the question of goodbye from the Republican Party. They cognize they tin nary longer backmost the losing MAGA self-promoter. He is quoted arsenic saying helium should get each the recognition for Republican wins, but nary of the blasted for their losses. Typical Trump logic. Well, Donald‚ it doesn’t enactment that way. You’re out. Ken Ludmer

Dayton, Ohio: Re “The biggest loser of the midterms: Donald Trump” (op-ed, Nov. 10): S.E. Cupp correctly states that Trump was the biggest loser successful this election. The biggest victor was America. Vic Presutti

Garwood, N.J.: Isn’t karma a fantastic thing? Didn’t Herschel Walker erstwhile play for the World Football League Generals, whose owner, Donald Trump, drove into bankruptcy? Now, mediocre Herschel is playing shot for the GOP, whose leader, Trump, is doing his champion to thrust them retired of business. I’m conscionable sitting backmost and enjoying the view. John Deichmeister

Brooklyn: The twice-impeached, one-term president has not adjacent officially declared his volition to tally again but helium has started the name-calling. America, amusement this antheral the door. We cannot woody with this upheaval. It is not bully for our intelligence health. June Lowe

Valhalla, N.Y.: Mr. Trump, I americium a Republican who enjoyed the large beingness we had during your 4 years successful charge. But now’s the clip for you to thrust disconnected into the sunset with immoderate dignity you tin bring with you. Since you left, things person deed the crapper: inflation, nutrient and state costs and conscionable trying to marque ends meet. For truthful galore people, it’s truly gotten bad! But your highly dense baggage and too-far-right beliefs indispensable spell away! Let’s get immoderate younger and hopefully much let’s-run-the-country-properly radical successful charge. Michael Grisanti

Bronx: The orangish dimwit is staggering connected the ropes. Time for the KO punch. Indict his abdominous ass. John Cirolia

Bronx: The Learning Tree Cultural Preparatory School is celebrating our founding begetter Gordon Parks’ 110th day this year. We are excited astir the upcoming programs and celebrations that person been planned. Most of the lessons volition beryllium hands-on and are thoughtfully constructed by some educators and photographers. One acquisition involves inviting Brooklyn-based lensman Christopher Cook to our schoolhouse to thatch the children however to marque a pinhole camera, and different acquisition includes allowing children to experimentation with Polaroid cameras and larn the creation of photography. Lystria Hurley

Ashburn, Va.: So, histrion Alec Baldwin, shaper of the movie “Rust” wherever helium changeable and killed a unit subordinate connected the New Mexico set, has filed a suit against different unit members — his employees — for their negligence starring up to and causing the killing. He’s entitled to immoderate righteous indignation here, but has it afloat dawned connected him that arsenic the film’s producer, helium volition astir apt beryllium held liable for the negligence of his employees, particularly if helium was liable for the slipshod information connected the set? Mike Barrett