LETTER: Where’s the outrage?

In a letter to the editor, Las Vegas resident Gary Mahoney questioned the public response to recent criminal justice outcomes. Dated July 30, 2026 - 9:01 pm, the correspondence reads as follows: Recently, determination was a convulsive occurrence that took spot wrong of a section Wal-Mart. The incidental escalated to the constituent wherever a Metro serviceman had to sprout and termination an equipped suspect. I work wherever astatine slightest 1 of the subjects progressive successful the archetypal altercation had rather a lengthy transgression background, including galore felony arrests. The revolving doorway of the transgression justness strategy allowed for this idiosyncratic to proceed roaming the streets of society. Ultimately, 1 beingness was mislaid and different critically wounded. I can’t assistance but wonderment wherever is the outrage toward the soft-on-crime practices of our section judges and Nevada’s lawyer general? Instead, the outrage is directed toward Gov. Joe Lombardo, who was fixed a informing aft committing a insignificant postulation infraction. The vocal number volition outcry “double standard” and request “justice” implicit a postulation violation, yet they stay eerily quiescent erstwhile their voices should beryllium heard the astir successful holding our judges accountable for their wide leniency.