"No wonder so many professional athletes think they can get away with breaking the law.

As The Star reported Saturday, KC Municipal Court Judge Joseph Locascio said Friday he was disappointed in former Chiefs running back Larry Johnson.

Johnson failed miserably to follow court-ordered punishment meted out for his two convictions on disturbing the peace from 2008.

Johnson didn't come close to completing the community service handed down by the judge.

Yet Locascio refused to do anything serious to punish Johnson for flouting the court's rules. He let Johnson go, just as the pampered Johnson probably thought would happen.

And this was after Locascio talked tough about how he had put other people in jail for doing basically the same thing Johnson had done.

In the end, I'm almost as disappointed in Locascio as I am in Johnson.

I expected Johnson to not do what he was told to do, based on his behavior as an athlete and Kansas City resident a few years ago.

But Locascio had the power to punish Johnson and didn't. In the end, Johnson wound up being in the position to laugh at the judge and at Kansas City's form of justice."