After reading the article “Family objects to plea deal for uncle’s role in overdose death” (Feb. 27, TribLive), I have come to the conclusion the justice system is failing us.

As a former employee of that system, I must point out it is a pendulous system that sways back and forth depending on political winds. In the mid ’80s, it had a liberal bent, and we witnessed criminals being coddled. In the early ’90s we saw the pendulum swing back toward a more victim-oriented system, with criminals no longer coddled.

We recently have witnessed a swing back to the left, further than at any other time in our history. The factual stories of George Soros-backed DAs in major cities allowing criminals to be released again and again, along with many crimes not being adjudicated, are common and widespread. Immigrants attacking police officers and killing young women and children after being arrested in other jurisdictions and released instead of being deported. These failures in the justice system can lead only in a singular direction, and that direction is one of chaos and societal decay.

Some might say these are not failures but a more kind and gentle way of handling members of society when they fall on hard times. But I would question the wisdom of anyone who believes that. History has a strange but powerful way of teaching us, and the lesson here is there will always be evil and criminals and to have a civil and morally ethical society you must keep the evil and criminals at bay.

Richard Bell

Ligonier

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