Driver’s License…is it necessary to have a driver’s license to be successful? Is it really appropriate to suspend or revoke a driver's license as a consequence to crimes unrelated to violence or driving at all?

Who really is paying for the consequences of a lost license? Family, children, taxpayers and employers are paying much more of their own funds due to loss of employee, retrainings, public services shelling out buss passes and vouchers for taxis and such.

When the documents say in black and white ‘loss of drivers license for 99 years” how then can a person even live? They are met with challenges beyond their sentencing range and yet we sit back and assume “they” have to figure it out for themselves, they are the criminal. This is backward thinking if we want to see peace and collaboration in our community. Are we really still stuck in that ‘spank your child’ false belief system when it comes to crime? New parenting techniques using talk therapy, art therapy and reward systems have permeated the old ways of abuse to get children to listen so why are we still doing it to adults in the criminal legal system?

When a driver's license is taken away as a consequence to crimes committed it is an additional sentence on top of the criminal legal sentence that far surpasses the judicial sentence length of incarceration or probation and has to be changed for the better of our local, state and national communities.