LET CAPELESS GET DEALERS OFF STREETS

I keep seeing and reading the ads and articles regarding the alleged
drug dealers from Great Barrington, and I wonder what would have
happened if the parents of those involved spent as much time, energy
and money on and with their kids as they have been since they got into
trouble.

Secondly, eight months of undercover police work, $73,800; arrest
costs, $4,700; court costs, $123,800; those convicted in jail for two
years, priceless because they're not selling drugs to anybody
else's kids! Let David Capeless and his staff do the job they were
appointed to do.

Joseph F. Buffis

Pittsfield

The writer is a 26-year member of the Lee Police Department.