What’s the problem with the police? Start with the negative reporting about them

Don’t tear down police officers

I have lived in Weatherford for 30 years. I’ve never been threatened, had my house broken into or been robbed.

I feel really safe in this town. And I don’t go into someone else’s town or neighborhood and try and tell people what to think.

Instead of tearing down the police, maybe we should thank them for making our town safe. Negative reporting about the police is part of the problem. Get the facts from the people who actually live in this town.

- Charles G. Estes, Weatherford

Keep your opinions in Texas

To go out of your way to find an opinion piece from the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Trudy Rubin to bash President Donald Trump is another display of your one-sidedness. (July 31, 13A, “Facing resistance, Putin needs a Trump win more than ever”)

Who cares what a liberal writer from Philadelphia says?

- Don Traylor, Saginaw

Protesters, it’s over, so quit

Protesters have made their voices heard and their opinions known about Parker County’s Confederate statue. County commissioners voted to leave the statue where it is. (July 31, 1A, “By 5-0, Parker County commissioners vote to keep Confederate statue”) We are a nation of laws, and that should be the end of it.

But there are rumors of another protest in Weatherford. To what end? The county has made a decision.

The only things that can come from another protest are violence, injury or destruction of property. The protesters need to accept defeat and move on.

- Barbara Epps, Weatherford

Not front-page news to me

With the relocation of a biotech firm that employs five people and with the anticipation of adding another three, Fort Worth is certainly on its way to becoming a formidable biotech powerhouse. (July 31, 1A, “California biotech firm is relocating to Fort Worth”)

This development was headlined above the fold? I hope the firm didn’t get any tax incentives.

Really, aren’t there more important, newsworthy issues?

- David Roll, Colleyville

Remove losers and honor the US

I would support the removal of any Confederate Civil War monument if those demanding its removal replaced it with a memorial to a Union soldier.

- Jack D’Amario, Granbury

These tables should be turned

When I started reading Marie Fischer’s column comparing former Vice President Joe Biden to President Donald Trump, I thought it might be a satirical piece at first. (Aug. 1, 6A, “Medical acuity: Biden vs. Trump”) But almost everything she claims about Biden easily could be attributed to Trump.

When he’s not reading prepared statements, Trump hardly can complete a sentence and rambles from subject to subject. He has trouble pronouncing words. He has shown his ignorance time and again, and his name-calling and lack of empathy are much worse than Biden’s gaffes.

- Charles Clines, North Richland Hills