

Instead, day in and day out, we keep hearing of stories like Sarquiz. How many times does history have to repeat itself before lawmakers do the right thing? Our elected officials are supposed to protect those who elect them into office.

Jimmy Durda Rotten personīrooklyn: Does someone want to explain how a person convicted of murder and had 17 prior arrests is allowed to walk the streets? These are the numbers for Phillip Meyers, the suspect in the killing of 55-year-old John Sarquiz (“ Killer puncher identified,” April 7).

If all you parents would take much more interest in what your kids are doing and who they are hanging out with, we would have less of a problem. Bronx: I said it before and it was not printed in the paper, so I will say it again: The problem with all these killings, shootings and muggings by teens is because of one major problem, which is piss-poor parenting.
