Koon and Powell

In response to the article (May 29) regarding the long prison terms urged for Sgt. Stacey Koon and Officer Lawrence Powell,, the Los Angeles police officers convicted in April of violating Rodney King’s civil rights:

I have a suggestion for the federal prosecutors: Go visit Koon and his family and Powell and his family on a Sunday afternoon; sit down with them and ask them how their lives have been for the past two years. Haven’t these men and their families suffered enough? Seven to 10 years! I think not. The recommended range is 18 to 24 months, and that’s what they should get-suspended. LINDA SCHAEFER Valencia