Police did their jobs in arresting teens
Your Free Press editorial “Signal police should show more restraint” makes unfavorable comparison between the number of arrests for underage drinking by Signal Mountain police and and other police forces in Hamilton County. There may be reasons for a difference.
Is the ratio of police officers on Signal Mountain to the number of teenagers on Signal Mountain equal to the ratio of police officers in other areas of Hamilton County to teenagers in those areas? Perhaps teenagers living on Signal Mountain have the mistaken idea that living a few hundred feet of elevation above the Tennessee River gives them different rules for living than the rules for teenagers living in the valley.
The editorial stated the Signal Mountain police action showed a lack of compassion and common sense and asked, “Can’t they find something better to do than to act in ways that are unduly harsh to young people?”
Are you using common sense to publish an editorial critical of the police for enforcing the law, which is the job they are hired to do?
WILLIAM WIGGINS, Signal Mountain