Im a female runner who cant outpace violent crime prosecutors must step up

Like every runner, I go through a standard checklist before I head out: shoes tied, phone charged, hydration ready, keys in my pocket — good to go.But I’ve also got another checklist to review, one that every woman who runs will recognize.I make sure it’s light out and that my route avoids solitary areas.I let someone know where I’m going.I lower the volume of my music so I can remain aware.

And I carry pepper spray because I never know who or what I’ll run into while I’m alone.It’s sad that women have to take these precautions before they work out.It’s sadder still that some women never come home from their runs at all.By all accounts, Alyssa Lokits also did everything she could to be safe.She went for a run near her Nashville, Tenn.home when it was still light out.

She chose a trail where other people were around and within earshot.And when she was attacked, she fought back.However, the elected officials charged with public safety failed to do their part to keep Lokits safe.She was murdered on Oct.

14 when her alleged killer pulled her off the trail, attempted to sexually assault her, and then shot her.Her alleged attacker, of course, had prior offenses.Unaccountable prosecutors — many of them politically motivated and guided by radical leftist ideology — routinely allow repeat, violent offenders to roam free.Far too often, these soft-on-crime policies result in female runners never making it home. Eliza Fletcher, a kindergarten teacher in Memphis, Tenn., was on a morning run in 2022 when she was forced into a vehicle and shot in the back of the head.Her killer had been arrested every single year — on charges including rape and kidnapping — from 1995 to 2000.He had been released early from a 24-year prison sentence.Laken Riley, a nursing student in Georgia, was running in the middle of the day early this year when she was dragged to a secluded area, assaulted and murdered.Her alleged killer, an illegal immigrant, had been de...