Of course Gov. Paterson and the other legislators want the State Police investigated. They are running scared (“Cuomo on the Case,” Editorial, April 1).

They don’t want any skeletons to come out of their closets, the way Eliot Spitzer’s did, and ruin their political careers.

Until something personally happens to the legislators, they don’t do anything about anything. They cut money for important projects until it affects them or a family member.

Research those cuts, and whom they will affect before you vote to cut them.

Renea Garon

Copake

Why don’t we stop kidding ourselves? The present group in Albany can scarcely afford to risk the slightest complicity in any State Police irregularities.

What probably will happen, or should happen, is that the results of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s probe will be kept under wraps. Let the State Police weed out the culprits and inform us of its success without naming names.

This way, everybody is a winner, and Paterson will score the necessary points to keep his job and push the infidelity issue aside.

Carl Rosenberg

Great Neck

Hats off to Paterson for asking Cuomo to conduct an investigation to determine if the State Police were used to investigate and target certain politicians.

The governor may then want to ask Cuomo’s office to expand its inquiry to make sure that controls exist at the local and county levels around the state to make sure that this kind of targeted investigation doesn’t take place.

We need to make sure that local, county police and state police are never used by incumbent officials anywhere in the state to conduct focused investigations against political opponents.

This is America, not Russia or China. The police must treat every elected official and citizen activist as equals.

Paul Feiner

Town Supervisor

Greenburgh