A 32-year-old mother of five is dead after a road rage shooter opened fire on her vehicle in broad daylight in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood — and two weeks later, no one has been arrested.

Rosa Hernandez Riviera died Thursday, exactly two weeks after she was shot around 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 22 near West 47th Street and South Western Avenue, NBC 5 Chicago reported. An unidentified driver pulled up next to the vehicle she was riding in with her boyfriend and two children and opened fire. Her sister, Sonia Hernandez, told NBC Chicago that police are now investigating the shooting as a homicide.

This is what life looks like in a city where violent offenders operate with impunity. A man follows a minivan for a mile over a traffic grievance, then fires a gun into a car with children inside — and the system can't even produce an arrest in 14 days. Surveillance footage from businesses on the block captured the incident, and 15th Ward Alderman Raymond Lopez said witnesses identified the shooter's vehicle as a gray four-door Toyota Scion with a rear bike rack, fleeing south on Western Avenue.

"To follow someone for a mile because you're angry at them, to want to take a gun and resolve that anger with a bullet, is nonsensical, stupid and senseless," Lopez told NBC 5 Chicago. He's right. But senseless doesn't begin to cover a system that can't locate a shooter who fired on a family in traffic at a red light, on camera, in a neighborhood.

The failure isn't limited to Chicago. In Lafayette, Louisiana, 20-year-old Jaleah Ross died Wednesday from injuries suffered in a crash caused by Jaylen Lawrence, 22, who police say turned off his headlights, ran a red light, and T-boned Ross's vehicle while impaired, according to the Baton Rouge Advocate. Lawrence had already been arrested on first-offense OWI and reckless operation charges in connection with the same crash before Ross died — then was hit with a vehicular homicide charge Thursday. A driver with a prior record, still on the road, still dangerous, until he killed someone.

Meanwhile, the Chicago Tribune reported that Michael Goodman was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday for the 2023 murder of 9-year-old Serabi Medina, shot in the head while riding her scooter in Portage Park. Goodman had no prior criminal record but dosed himself with roughly 20 times the recommended amount of ketamine before hallucinating and shooting the child. The system eventually locked him up — but only after a little girl was dead.

In each case, the pattern is the same: the system reacts after the body count, not before. The politicians who championed lenient bail policies, deferred prosecution, and emptied jails in the name of reform have yet to explain why ordinary Americans should accept dead mothers and dead children as the price of their experiment. Alderman Lopez identified the shooter's vehicle. The footage exists. The question now is whether anyone in Chicago's justice apparatus has the will to act before the next family buries its dead.