Signal Mountain police did the right thing
I take exception to your editorial concerning the over-zealousness of the Signal Mountain police by arresting those underage drinkers. The writer cited the few arrests by the other law enforcement agencies when making his (or her) point. I don’t see compassion in that statistic. I see failure on the part of law enforcement employees — I decline to use the word “professionals” to describe them — to enforce the law. Or, perhaps those failures smack of favoritism or elitism?
One last point. At what age below the legal drinking limit would the writer give merely a slap on the wrist, instead of jail and a record?
The high school student whose life opportunities might be damaged by poor choices, or the 20-year old on the cusp of being legal age, who decided not to wait. How about a 19-year old out of high school for a year or more? Leave the Signal Mountain police alone and editorialize about parents who don’t know (or don’t care) about what their kids are doing, regardless who those parents might be.
STEVE ORENDER, Dayton, Tenn.
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A daily routine for me: read the newspaper all the way through. This may sound silly, but it is something I have done for years with only a few exceptions. I even worked at the Free Press when I was a college student as a proofreader who proofread the old-fashioned way, with a red waxed pencil.