Relating to “Let cops who refuse shots quit” (Open Discussion board, Oct. 30): Claudio Vera Sanchez argues that police mustn’t reply to “continual home violence” and let psychological well being professionals deal with these calls.
He states a latest research that discovered 32% of arrestees repeated home violence. If 68% of arrestees didn’t repeat abuse, this means that arrests are efficient in stopping recidivism.
For hundreds of years, we didn’t criminalize home violence within the U.S., and girls have been killed at extraordinarily excessive charges. The Violence Policy Center reviews an increase in home violence homicides on this nation prior to now 5 years. The best charges of home violence murder have been amongst Black ladies.
Psychological well being professionals can work with perpetrators who’re on probation. However the threat of deadly assaults in home violence calls is simply too excessive to ask psychological well being professionals to be the primary responders.
It has taken a long time to get to the purpose the place police will intervene; we must always not take away that possibility. Regulation enforcement intervention can save lives.
Cows are the issue
Relating to “Seaweed in feed a tool to reach emissions goal” (Entrance Web page, Oct. 29): The article properly highlights how seaweed might considerably scale back one vital downside related to cows: their methane emissions that dramatically speed up local weather change. Nonetheless, the article fails to say the numerous different issues associated to cows.
These different issues embody land, water and air air pollution from the huge quantity of cow manure produced. A mature dairy cow weighing 1,400 kilos can generate about 120 kilos of feces and urine every day. The hazardous gases launched from manure breakdown embody hydrogen sulfide, ammonia and carbon dioxide.
There may be additionally the surplus water use related to cows. It takes roughly 1,800 gallons of water to provide a pound of beef.
However maybe the most important downside with cows is that consuming them harms our well being. Consuming purple meat has been linked to an elevated threat of coronary heart illness, most cancers, diabetes, stroke, kidney illness and plenty of different antagonistic well being outcomes.
So, if we need to enhance our well being and our planet’s well being, let’s concentrate on lowering the variety of cows moderately than on feeding them seaweed.
Housing is smart
Relating to “495 units on parking lot, but supes said no” (Entrance Web page, Oct. 28): If any of your readers are doubtful as as to whether supporting new housing for the situation in query is a internet profit for the individuals of San Francisco, I might encourage them to stroll down Stevenson Avenue, evaluation the proposal and think about the query for themselves.
On one hand we’ve the supervisors’ obvious plan — do nothing — and then again we’ve a improvement group that really has the urge for food (for what appears to me to be a comparatively dangerous funding) in new housing on a painfully dilapidated metropolis block.
The supervisors’ obvious abuse of their oversight perform blatantly deprives individuals of secure, clear locations to dwell whereas concurrently stopping an inflow of jobs and capital.
When a gaggle of leaders vote to dam commonsense funding, in apparent disregard for the general public curiosity, I can’t assist however surprise about each corruption and easy irrationality as controlling components behind their votes.
San Francisco traditionally has been a bastion of progress and hub for world-changing concepts. I hope that the obscure ethics of some native leaders characterize nothing greater than a slight hiccup that this nice lighthouse within the fog will overcome.
