I recently received a letter from the Oklahoma County district attorney, informing me a woman who wrote $200 in hot checks on my bank account 15 months ago received a five-year suspended sentence and is to repay me $195 toward my losses.

My purse was stolen in May 2006 from my locked car parked in my driveway. A few months later, I filed criminal charges — as did other victims — after a convenience store's surve...