With regards to normal courses of action, I agree with you. However, I think you would also agree that in the cases of flagrant criminal negligence, such prose

With regards to normal courses of action, I agree with you. However, I think you would also agree that in the cases of flagrant criminal negligence, such prosecution is not just acceptable, but necessary and even mandatory. At which point, I think this becomes an argument over whether or not the Flint water catastrophe is just such a case of flagrant criminal negligence.