Since the election of our current prosecuting attorney, any concept of justice or safety in our community has been eliminated.
The previous “home town” feeling of security, which allowed for unlocked doors, keys left in the ignition and letting ones children walk to school, the pool and the library unafraid is a thing of the past. In additional to her failure to perform the most basic aspect of the position, to prosecute and champion justice and ensure restitution is paid to victims as much as possible, professionalism is badly lacking.
I have heard numerous examples of the failures our PA has visited upon its law-abiding citizens. When a convicted felon who has already been sent to prison previously by Barry County for drugs, burglary and stealing is placed on probation again by another county for stealing, fails to report, and is charged with no less than five new counts of burglary, stealing, property damage and possession of methamphetamine — and nothing is done — it’s a disgrace.
While the failure to revoke probation in the other county obviously reveals a failure by that county and likely the Department, it doesn’t in any way diminish the failures of our PA. The above mentioned charges don’t even encompass the additional domestic violence and theft charges that our PA chose not to file against this person.
Instead of a well-deserved aggravated prior and persistent enhanced prison sentence, Ms. Boxx placed this “probation success “ back on another term of probation to run concurrent with the other county, which also failed it’s citizens when it didn’t revoke or take any action despite violation after violation of probation.
It should be noted that there are additional felony charges pending in a neighboring county that our PA apparently determined to be irrelevant when handing out a slap on the wrist. The offender has failed to appear for virtually every single court appearance unless incarcerated at the time, and why not?
It’s already been shown that there are no consequences for burglary, theft, assault, drugs, failure to appear, as well as failure to abide by any of the conditions of probation. Examples such as this are the reason people don’t ask for help.
It’s difficult to teach and expect people to be hard working law-abiding citizens when everywhere those who victimize and steal the hard earned fruits of others’ labor are free to do so.
The increased cost of virtually everything makes it all the more difficult for people to meet their needs, let alone the occasional want, and allowing this kind of unfettered access to destroy lives without consequences is in keeping with the cesspool that other states and big cities are encouraging.
Sandi Massey
Cassville
