REAL TALK: As a retired homicide detective, I've sat with too many grieving families including moms, dads, brothers, and sisters. All while they wipe away the tears, hearing their gut-wrenching screams and cries that never quite leave you. I've carried the weight of their pain long after the cases are closed and even the ones that stayed open. What I can't wrap my head around is why so many judges keep RELEASING multi convicted violent offenders back onto our streets. These aren't minor "slipups" rather dangerous predators with long records of destroying lives. I often wish those judges had to feel what I've seen firsthand: A mother's heartbreaking sobs for her son who was just walking home from school when his life was taken. The piercing screams of a daughter learning her mom was brutally r@ped and murdered. The quiet, crushing devastation of a father standing where his daughter was left to die alone in a park. Maybe then the scales of justice would finally tip toward protecting the innocent instead of coddling the guilty. Victims' families deserve better. Our communities deserve better.
