The Issue: Adam Klotz, a TV weatherman who was attacked by teens after speaking up for an elderly man. Things have reached a breaking point in New York when a Good Samaritan who intervenes to try to prevent a gang of young thugs from harassing an older man is badly beaten, and those assailants, although apprehended by police, are neither jailed nor even charged for their crime (“Rain of terrors,” Jan. 23). Refusing to hold criminals accountable for their violent misconduct is destroying the social fabric of the city. If this state’s progressive leaders continue to refuse to protect their...