Credit for Change in Coyote Policy Undeserved

* After the barrage of coyote sightings in and around Justice Street Elementary School, Eric Rose, Laura Chick’s field deputy, was quoted as saying, “We can’t afford to wait for a child to be attacked by a coyote before the city takes action.” (“Coyote Sightings Prompt Call for Trapping,” Oct. 25.)

Hah! What he and Chick fail to say is that a toddler was stalked and nearly attacked on my block in Chick’s district in 1994, and that for much of the time since, Chick’s office told her frightened constituents to take a hike and did nothing to stem the tide of animal-rights fanatics who successfully intimidated her from taking any meaningful position in reversing the city’s ridiculous ban on coyote trapping.

The fact that Chick has the temerity to now take credit for undoing and modifying a failed policy that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of pets and placed children in harm’s way is absolutely ludicrous.

MICHAEL TURNER

Woodland Hills