STUDENTS TROUBLED BY PEERS' ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES

Editor, The Post-Crescent:

I wish to log a complaint about the obvious. The law says that it's
illegal to buy tobacco products if you're under age 18 and that doing
drugs is also illegal.

If you live near Neenah High School, you would think that law doesn't
apply. Across the street from the school and on church property in
plain sight every day, this illegal activity persists. Nothing is done
about it nor does a member of law enforcement bother to linger in the
area to deter it.

Neenah isn't a place where the police have numerous activities where
they could not do something about this. I talk to students who can't
believe that the law isn't enforced at all.

Now, how about the illicit behavior at Memorial Park that everyone at
the high school knows about except the police: drugs, alcohol, etc.,
in broad parking-lot light. I know of students who are afraid of that
area because of the people who hang out there.

Again, this is not a metropolis. We have more police waiting for
speeders than we have actually doing something that would create
revenue for the city.

As an educator, I would appreciate that their concerns would be a
major consideration of the police force that their parents pay for.
The students I talk to are disgusted at the level of law enforcement
that is being applied to the people who are doing wrong.

Dan Fritsch,

Appleton