DECREASE IN DRUG ARRESTS BECAUSE STUDENTS CAN GO OFF CAMPUS

The number of drug related arrests on campus has occurred most often
during the beginning of January to the end of March. Over a four year
period Wright State drug related arrest has gradually increased and
decreased. According to the "Article Drug Arrest Down twenty six
drug related arrest occurred in 2005, and twelve arrests in 2006 and
twenty three in 2007" over a three month time frame.

This year the number of drug related arrests had dropped twenty one
percent compared to the twenty eight drug related arrests of 2008.
The editor [writer] (Allison Lewis) "fills that the new narcotics
police dog is one of the main factors why there has only been six
drug related arrests this year". I somewhat agree with this opinion
the editor makes. From my point of view the students that do use
drugs get a little skeptical and careful about using drugs on campus
because they know it's at a higher risk of them getting caught with
the new police dog in effect. I strongly believe just the presence of
the police dog has caused some of the Dayton drug dealers to stop
coming on campus as much.

Even though the new police dog has had some type of effect on the low
drug arrests on campus at Wright state this year. I don't think it
has any impact on the overall students using drugs at Wright state
this is why I don't agree with this article 100%. Another reason why
I think there are such low arrests on campus is because student drug
users can easily go off campus to use drugs with no problem to avoid
the whole thought of them getting detected by the police dog.

I also don't agree with the point the editor makes that the students
patrol having an impact on the low drug crimes on campus. I don't
think the student patrol has any effect on the low drug crimes on
campus. Most students feel as though the student patrol has little or
no authority at all and see them as regular students when in comes to
drug using. To make this article more efficient the editor needs to
compare the whole three quarters for the whole year for us as the
readers to really know if the new narcotics police dog really has
had an impact on the number of drug related crimes occurring on campus .

Aaron Mack