{"id":6106,"date":"2010-01-22T12:11:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T20:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/we-need-to-enforce-the-laws-we-have\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T21:45:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T04:45:27","slug":"we-need-to-enforce-the-laws-we-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/we-need-to-enforce-the-laws-we-have\/","title":{"rendered":"We need to enforce the laws we have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of our police officers are a very important part of our justice system, however, making new laws to try and protect us form the criminals just doesn\u2019t make since. Why aren\u2019t the laws we have being enforced?<\/p>\n<p>I posed the question, now let me be specific: How many criminal reports are given to the prosecutor each day, week, month, or year? How many of those cases does the prosecutor accept? What happens to the criminal cases the prosecutor doesn\u2019t accept? Are those crime victims left out of the justice system? How does the prosecutor justify plea-barging and light sentencing?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time we demand that our prosecutors and judges enforce the laws rather than interpret them. All the crime reports completed by law enforcement should be enforced equally on behalf of the victims, and criminals need to be aware that the prosecutor will prosecute them to the extent of the law.<\/p>\n<p>We need victim justice, not criminal justice.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Howard Lontz<\/p>\n<p>Kent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of our police officers are a very important part of our justice system, however, making new laws to try and protect us form the criminals just doesn\u2019t make since. Why aren\u2019t the laws we have being enforced?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}