It's long past time for responsible citizens to usefully channel and positively direct the grief and outrage over another tragic trail of multiple murders perpetrated by a violent criminal let free on parole to run amok, spreading death, destruction, and mayhem.
Want to know who is responsible for the endless repetitions of lethal tragedies?
We are . . . you and I and everyone else, excepting only anyone who demands to know and calls to account those who exercise authority to parole convicted criminals.
The fact is that those authorities are anonymous. They are unknown to almost everyone and not accountable to anyone. And we, without raising any objections or questions, have tolerated a parole system that functions in obscurity. The media ignores the issue and thus facilitates the in camera nature of what obviously is a dangerously malfunctioning system.
We should insist on the parole authorities' identities being made known to the public, and whenever a paroled violent criminal again harms someone the authorities should be required to publicly explain why the repeat offender was freed before serving his full sentence.
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