Letter to the editor: No more excuses for criminals

Please tell me how far up is too far for people to stick their heads.

Not long ago mayors, “the squad,” district attorneys and more were calling to defund the police. Now some of those same people beg for help after crime waves take over their cities. What a shame.

Some of these people seem to want to let certain crimes go. If a crime is committed, you make an arrest and the person goes to jail until trial. A crime is a crime, period. If you don’t have enough jails, build more. If you don’t have enough guards, hire more. If you don’t have a mayor or DA with a backbone, recall him or her and get one.

Quit making excuses on why criminals shouldn’t be punished. Funny thing is, these are the same people, including the president, who cry about covid tests and vaccines for legal Americans and blame them for spreading infections, yet I hear nothing about illegal immigrants waltzing through our country without masks or vaccines, some bringing drugs and committing crimes. But that’s OK? Apparently they have some kind of magic in them that prevents them from spreading this virus, and they get a free pass on crime.

I hope in the upcoming midterm elections people vote with their brains and not their feelings, because some of these headless politicians most definitely need to go.

Dwayne Buffer

Youngwood