POLICE SHOULD FOCUS ON SERIOUS VIOLATIONS

Which two of the following do not belong: A rapist, a thief, a traffic
violator, a marijuana smoker and a college student who has been drinking?
Answer: the rapist and the thief. What do all the others have in common?
The rest all are the focus of police. It seems with the recent rape in
downtown State College and the increasing amount of thefts, police would
have found the time to investigate further into these crimes. Numerous rape
cases are reported each semester without further investigation, even with
substantial leads.

Walking students are harassed via checkpoints on the corner of Bigler and
Pollock. When will the police start serving their community and stop
oppressing students? The fact of the matter is that the police must stop
expending their services into areas of harassing college students for
drinking, harmlessly smoking an occasional joint or violating feeble
traffic laws whose "costs" are more than $100 in addition to the actual
fine. Police must most importantly maintain a safe community for all and
stop impeding on our freedom of privacy without probable cause.

Eric Killian, freshman-division of undergraduate studies