Pubdate: Thu, 23 Feb 2012
Source: Dallas Morning News (TX)
Copyright: 2012 The Dallas Morning News, Inc.
Contact: http://www.dallasnews.com/cgi-bin/lettertoed.cgi
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Author: Ronald Wade

.. WHY CELEBRATE ARRESTS?

We innocents, constantly alert to the depredations of hoodlum gangs, 
are grateful for your publication of the rogues' gallery of hardened 
criminals on the front page of your Feb. 19 issue. Now we can 
recognize these miscreants on sight and hasten to protect our children 
from looming evil.

Seriously, your gleeful celebration of the arrests of TCU students for 
marijuana offenses was worthy of a major FBI roundup of Mafioso capos 
and professional assassins instead of an easy and risk-free bust of 
college students dealing in the "devil's weed."

But then, it does make great copy, and the cops can chalk up another 
journalistically hyped victory over the underworld.

Ronald Wade

Rockwall
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