Pubdate: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 Source: Anchorage Daily News (AK) Copyright: 2003 The Anchorage Daily News Contact: http://www.adn.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/18 Author: Dan Frank Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1820/a08.html Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis) POLICE AND DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE REVEAL SOME OUT-OF-WHACK PRIORITIES Referring to "Student faces drug charge" (Nov. 21), about a student facing felony charges for pot being in her car: Let's get this straight. The Anchorage Police Department has the time to track down a 1.75-liter bottle of Jim Beam whisky (leading to the pot find) and the district attorney has the money to send a kid to prison for five years for possession of a "small amount" of pot, but we have no resources to investigate rape charges and must rely on volunteers to protect people from violent crimes on the bike trails? As a city and a state, we have clearly lost our way when it comes to appropriate crime laws and enforcement focus. The district attorney's office and APD should be very ashamed of themselves. Dan Frank Anchorage - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin