Here’s another incident involving a private citizen scaring off would-be thieves, this time with no arrests and this time with the bad guys getting off a shot. Oh, better still, a three-year old was in the line of fire.

Does anyone in local government care that criminals have declared open season on the populace? Is it going to take an actual high-profile bodycount for anyone to take responsibility for Mecklenburg’s revolving door criminal justice system?