Pubdate: Sat, 26 Jan 2002
Source: Bucks County Courier Times (PA)
Copyright: 2002 Calkins Newspapers. Inc.
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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.
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