Letter to the Editor; Sensationalizing crime sends wrong message

To the Editor:

A blindfold and scales represent the American judicial system, signifying equality and balance.

Recent events bring our laws into question. While laws are made based on common sense, many choose to ignore them. Can America operate under two or more sets of laws? And will this great country be forever divided by ideology or skin color? Can we bend to the pressures of malcontents to adopt more lenient laws; laws that enable criminal acts to go unpunished? Or should we enforce existing laws without regard to ideology or skin color?

Rioting, looting, burglary, robbery, assault and a...