Congratulations

Congratulations, San Diego Police Chief Bob Burgreen; congratulations, San Diego artists Deborah Small, Elizabeth Sisco, Scott Kessler and Louis Hock; congratulations to the National Endowment for the Arts.

With a bit of awareness made public by concerned artists in the form of bus bench posters placed at various places in the city, funded partly by the NEA, a sad situation has been addressed by and hopefully corrected by the San Diego police chief and the department as a whole.

Understandably, public outcry and various forums have also been influential in Burgreen’s decision (“S.D. Chief Reveals Plan to Cut Police Shooting,” Dec. 22), but still the visual impact and artist statement should not go unstated.

LARRY ATTINASI, Poway