Don’t Trust The Pizza Guy
The police are getting sneaky.
This seems like a silly thing to be wasting police funds and resources on. If we're going to bust kids for under-aged drinking (and I'm still not entirely convinced we shouldn't drop the drinking age all-together) then lets bust the kids who aren't drinking with their parents.
Which group do you think causes more problems, kids out partying in the woods with no supervision or kids partying under the supervision of adults? And what's with this stuff about trying 17-year-olds as adults? I can see the point of trying kids as adults in the case of violent crimes, but trying under-aged drinkers as adults? That's going too far.
I'd be in favor of a law that allowed kids to consume alcohol while accompanied by an adult. I think it'd allow adults to teach kids responsible drinking habits at an age when they're still under parental control and it would cut down on the amount of sneaking around to parties the kids do, which is really the crux of the problem anyway.
AP - The long arm of the law may be ringing your doorbell and holding a pizza.
Police in Portsmouth hope to enlist pizza delivery people and hotel clerks to help cut into underage drinking and parents who allow it.
Under a new law, it's illegal for the owner or occupants of a home or hotel room to host a gathering of five or more minors who are drinking or using drugs. Teens as young as 17 who throw a party could be tried as adults.
Portsmouth Police Sergeant Mike Schwartz said the program is called the "Booze Bounty." He said food delivery people and hotel clerks would receive $50 if their anonymous tips of suspicious activity leads to the arrest of a party host.
"The message being sent to parents is that it's not safe for them to host a party," said Jackie Valley, of the Community Diversion Program in Greenland, which works to keep at-risk youths out of trouble with the law. "This doesn't change the fact that youths using alcohol is still illegal."
This seems like a silly thing to be wasting police funds and resources on. If we're going to bust kids for under-aged drinking (and I'm still not entirely convinced we shouldn't drop the drinking age all-together) then lets bust the kids who aren't drinking with their parents.
Which group do you think causes more problems, kids out partying in the woods with no supervision or kids partying under the supervision of adults? And what's with this stuff about trying 17-year-olds as adults? I can see the point of trying kids as adults in the case of violent crimes, but trying under-aged drinkers as adults? That's going too far.
I'd be in favor of a law that allowed kids to consume alcohol while accompanied by an adult. I think it'd allow adults to teach kids responsible drinking habits at an age when they're still under parental control and it would cut down on the amount of sneaking around to parties the kids do, which is really the crux of the problem anyway.
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