UNDERCOVER DRUG BUSTS AT LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS WERE RIGHT THING TO DO

To the editor:

It seems to me that you have waltzed into our community to use your bully
pulpit for your personal goals. You have badly mis-read our community by
taking a stand against the very well though out and executed job by the Palm
Beach County Sheriff's office to help catch drug dealers targeting our
children.

Despite your weak arguments about mis-leading the community, as a
parent I heartily endorse any effort by the School District or our law
enforcement agencies to catch these criminals and bring them to justice.

I also feel that the tactics used are perfectly reasonable. When you
are dealing with dirt, you have to act like dirt yourself to catch
them.

I admonish you and The Jupiter Courier to wake up and get to know the
people you serve before you make high sounding but ill-informed
statements about what is right or wrong in our community.

As far as I am concerned, I would like to see a continuing program to
use undercover officers to infiltrate and catch the scum that is
polluting our children before our eyes.

I can tell you that my two high school-aged children have been
positively impacted by the fact that the undercover operation was
undertaken in their schools. They and their friends will think twice
about associating with potential drug dealers in their schools.

Harrison Hine

Tequesta