THE ISSUE: A city woman summoned by the NYPD for feeding birds in the street.

Perhaps someone should educate this lady and tell her that when you feed the birds by tossing food for them into the street, you also feed the rats (“Crime Most Fowl,” Jan. 2).

Since New York City has a serious problem with rats, the police were justified in what they did.
Anthony Funaro
Howard Beach

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If the NYPD really is looking to save face, it should start by issuing an apology to Yvette Bavier.

Then it should verbally reprimand the two officers for wasting her time, attempting to waste the court’s time and being a general embarrassment to the greatest police force in the greatest city in the world.
Jack Marshall
Brooklyn

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There was a time in New York when the streets were minefields of dog feces, but that changed with enforcement by the police.

Bavier was appropriately summonsed, especially after someone else complained. The real problem here is the name-calling and disrespect by an uninformed and amateurish columnist.
Maurice Kempis
Rego Park

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I think The Post was unfairly harsh to the cops who issued the littering summons to Bavier.

They were sent there because a complaint was made about her “attracting and endangering pigeons by feeding them raw rice,” although the complainant sounds like the action of a PETA-type.

When they told her she could beat the summons, what Bavier saw as “attitude” was most likely good advice, given by an officer doing something she didn’t really want to do.

The silliest part of this story is the misinformed complainant – eating raw rice will not harm birds in any way. Swelling rice and exploding birds are urban legends.
Jack Rooney
Brooklyn