The Issue: Seven New York children who have died in the last year while under the supervision of ACS.
My earliest memory of horrific child abuse is from 1987, when Lisa Steinberg was murdered in Greenwich Village after being tortured by Joel Steinberg (“Kids doomed,” May 5).
And here we are, almost 40 years later, and the awful agencies in charge of rescuing these poor, beautiful innocents from their abusers are failing miserably.
I still have the newspapers back from 1987 with Lisa’s picture on the front page, and it still makes me cry, as do these awful stories.
How is it considered racist to remove these children from these awful parents? I hope The Post’s reporting causes the Administration for Children’s Services such grief that things get changed once and for all.
Please don’t give up the fight. Save these babies from the adults who have failed them.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for shining the spotlight on these children.
Joanne Urban
Wantagh
So now the agenda of progressives has caused children to die horribly, because the ACS isn’t doing its job.
Instead of protecting kids, ACS workers are too worried about “racism,” because most of the families they investigate are minorities. Time for Mayor Adams to step up and spearhead an investigation.
Also, it would be great to hear the candidates running for mayor address this atrocity.
Rob Feuerstein
Staten Island
I’m fortunate to be 15 years retired after 32 years in Child Protective Services.
I know firsthand what it’s like to respond to reports of all kinds of abuse and neglect of children, and what a worker endures when they enter a house.
Their safety is not guaranteed. They’re also not given a crystal ball. But when a child dies, as is unfortunately inevitable given the behavior of some in the population they serve, the blame falls on them.
Zachary Margolies
Philadelphia, Pa.
It would be a tragedy if Mayor Adams does not implement the positive remedies suggested by The Post to purge ACS of its delusional and, yes, deadly woke tenets (“Save the Children,” Editorial, May 6).
The root causes of child death and abuse are neither “structural racism” nor poverty. It is simply that too many people have neither the skill nor determination required to safely and lovingly rear offspring.
When living conditions are inhumane, children must be removed, permanently.
Anthony Parks
Garden City
The Issue: A report showing that more than 125,000 residents have left New York for Florida in recent years.
I am one of those who fled the state and live in Florida (“NYC flee bitten by Florida,” May 2).
Who do I blame? The people of New York, who continue to vote for liberals who care more about helping the illegals aliens than helping those who pay taxes.
The governor thinks that congestion pricing is the right thing to do to help pay for the bloated mass-transit budget.
The district attorneys who have “catch and release” tattoos on their rumps to remind them what their job is.
Disgraced Andrew Cuomo sent COVID patients to nursing homes where they infected so many more people.
Ed Koch called himself a liberal with a brain. If Koch were alive now, he would be my neighbor in Florida.
Jay Hill
Boynton Beach, Fla.
Long ago, Confucius observed that a ruler’s virtue and governance are reflected in the state’s ability to attract and retain people.
Laz Schneider
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
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