Letter: Bottom line

Editor, Daily News:

One can only applaud Collier County Sheriff Don Hunter's statement in his Guest Commentary of May 22 relating to illegal immigration, to wit: "As a practicing criminologist, I recognize and subscribe to the concept of swift and certain punishment yielding deterrence. Failure to enforce existing law results in patterned evasion and the flaunting of the law."

Unfortunately, Mr. Hunter's actions and those of his deputies don't match his words.

Red light running in Collier County is epidemic. It has resulted in a number of fatalities, including recently a Hospice social worker and, earlier this year, one of my neighbors.

Mr. Hunter has done nothing to stop this, notwithstanding his above statements to the contrary.

How many more Collier residents need to die before Sheriff Hunter does his job?

John E. Ryan , Naples