The title should be WHITHER the Compassion Bubble.
The U.S. Navy sanctioned the air controllers for their negligent actions. Let me reverse this: you would do nothing? No accountability at all?
Now, grasshopper, you are making progress. Do all "sanctions" stem from criminal prosecution? When should a prosecutor move forward and when shouldn't they? What basis for their decision is appropriate? If the prosecutors did not make the decision to prosecute, who would you have make the decision? The police? The community in a vote? A judge? Etc.
Remember that there are civil lawsuits as well as criminal and civil law handles most negligence, not criminal. I don't think you have much understanding to be spouting off in a column about it. My advice, take it or leave it, is to write about stuff that you know about.