Pubdate: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 Source: Bucks County Courier Times (PA) Copyright: 2002 Calkins Newspapers. Inc. Contact: http://www.phillyburbs.com/feedback/content_cti.shtml Website: http://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/index.shtml Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1026 Author: Harry D. Fisher POLICING HIGH SCHOOL HALLS RISKS ALIENATING TEENS I can't imagine a better tool for developing contempt for authority than police spies and police dogs cruising around campus. Who would have thought that dogs and police would be common in American high schools? It's a quick way to get educated in the realities of the world, teaches the students discretion, and fosters a prudent distrust of authority. I can't imagine a better tool for developing contempt for authority than police spies and police dogs cruising around campus. As a group, teenagers don't intimidate easily. If anybody was wondering about the limits of our vaunted freedoms, look no further than to the war on drugs. When that war was engaged, police spies and other dogs became a certainty. Harry D. Fisher, Woodland Hills, Ca. - --- MAP posted-by: Jackl