POLICING HIGH SCHOOL HALLS RISKS ALIENATING TEENS

I can't imagine a better tool for developing contempt for authority than
police spies and police dogs cruising around campus.

Who would have thought that dogs and police would be common in American
high schools?

It's a quick way to get educated in the realities of the world, teaches the
students discretion, and fosters a prudent distrust of authority. I can't
imagine a better tool for developing contempt for authority than police
spies and police dogs cruising around campus. As a group, teenagers don't
intimidate easily.

If anybody was wondering about the limits of our vaunted freedoms, look no
further than to the war on drugs. When that war was engaged, police spies
and other dogs became a certainty.

Harry D. Fisher, Woodland Hills, Ca.