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Oakland cops habits
a catastrophe for the pressure

Re: “Homicide conviction prices overturned” (Web page B1, March 29).

It’s wonderful (and disgusting) that the horror tales concerning the Oakland Police Division simply preserve coming. The newest is a Detective Tran paid hundreds of {dollars} to a supposed witness earlier than and after a trial the place an apparently harmless particular person was convicted of homicide. The witness now admits she was blocks away when the crime occurred.

Worse but — the identical detective continues to be at work. It received’t be for much longer that juries — or the general public — consider something the police say when the unhealthy apples proceed to be paid and accepted of their departments.

Fred Geiget
Santa Cruz

Richmond improvement
is a foul proposal

The Richmond Planning Comission accredited the proposed improvement of the PG&E web site on Brickyard Cove Highway though there is no such thing as a project-specific EIR, it’s going to require 130,000 cubic yards of filth fill, and it’ll minimize right into a hill that’s presently unstable and sliding behind Seacliff Estates. On the listening to another challenge that satisfies all the metropolis’s targets was proposed that has not one of the above and which ends up in increased density. That proposal wasn’t even thought-about.

The issues articulated by the cove residents are actual. Mudslides are actual.  Damaged pipes and cracked foundations brought on by settling are actual. The well being results of mud and truck air pollution are actual. The Metropolis Council ought to reject Republic’s proposal and contemplate various designs that not solely don’t jeopardize the well being of Richmond residents but in addition are extra interesting to the wholeness of the cove.

Pat Armer
Level Richmond

Local weather change battle
calls for our consideration

A superb cartoon on the Opinion web page (“One thing have to be executed about TikTok,” Web page A6, March 28) captures the central dilemma of our age: We’re diverting ourselves with short-term pleasures whereas ignoring the ticking time bomb threatening long-term survival — local weather change. We reply rapidly to rewards and threats instantly earlier than us however falter when confronted with risks we consider to be far-off.

However there are actions we are able to take as we speak that may avert catastrophes tomorrow. Probably the most essential is to rapidly curb the burning of fossil fuels. The quickest, fairest answer is a tax on carbon with all revenues rebated as dividends to each family to offset worth will increase. The tax will drive innovation geared toward lowering the carbon content material of services and products. Write your legislators and inform them you help a carbon price and dividend system. Time is ticking away and, because the man within the cartoon says, one thing have to be executed.

Nick Despota
Richmond

Liberal dad and mom additionally
want reining in

Re: “What the Republican push for ‘dad and mom’ rights’ is actually about” (Web page A6, March 29).

Whereas I largely agree with what Jamelle Bouie writes relating to the issues with permitting a small group of oldsters to censor and dictate curriculum I really feel as if he paints it as a conservative drawback.

There are many situations when a liberal group will wish to censor a guide equivalent to “Irreversible Harm” which discusses women leaping the gun and turning into trans, or blocking Ben Shapiro from talking on campuses.

Bouie must also flip to his liberal buddies and encourage them to not attempt to block books or audio system from coming into the general public house and let either side focus on their concepts.

Max Ritter
Livermore

Gun security requires
cautious compromise

Re: “Repeal 2nd Modification to make nation safer” (Web page A6, March 30).

Think about a rustic — our nation — the place non-law enforcement residents have illegally acquired weapons and prey on law-abiding residents. Think about nations that don’t enable their residents to personal weapons and exert management on what residents can do and suppose — China and Russia.