POLICE SHOULD REVIEW CURRENT DRUG POLICIES

We all need to ask some tough questions about the behavior of the
Schenectady police in their raid on Anita Woodyear's home for a $60
pot bust, and the policy that drove them to do what they did.

First and foremost, they watched her son for weeks, yet instead of
arresting him when he walked out of the house, they mounted a heavily
armed raid, complete with shots fired inside with an 11-year-old and
12-year-old present. That is reckless and irresponsible behavior.

Our drug policies have absolutely failed. Drugs are cheaper and more
plentiful than they ever were before prohibition. Every time the
police take a dealer off the streets, a new dealer steps in to fill
the shoes. Surely widely available treatment and regulated
distribution cannot be a worse policy than what we have now.

ADAM SCAVONE

Saratoga Springs