Letting people skate for traffic offenses is no way to respect the law

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Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. | Ashlee Rezin / Sun-Times

Cook County States Attorney Kimberly Foxx has announced that certain “financial” traffic violations will not be prosecuted. These are traffic offenses for which people were tried and convicted, and then ordered to pay a fine in lieu of jail time.

Now Foxx has declared that these fines can be ignored and no punitive actions will be taken by the states attorney’s office. She calls this social justice. It is actually societal injustice when you allow a selected segment of society to ignore punishment they have called upon themselves for their disobedience of laws. This slippery slope is the beginning of the erosion of a lawful society.

Larry Casey, Forest Glen

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