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Are dogs best way to tackle city disorder
Carl Wagner Letters, Hull Daily Mail
Monday 16 Aug 2004 City centre trouble is alcohol-related says campaigner Sir I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I read in the Mail that Humberside police are to use sniffer dogs to catch recreational drug users in Beverley and Bridlington as "part of a campaign to stop the towns being turned into crime and disorder hotspots on Saturday nights". It may come as a surprise, but the screaming women and aggressive young men vomiting and urinating in doorways, vandalising property and attacking innocent passers by aren't on illegal drugs. Their behaviour is due to alcohol, the socially acceptable, taxable drug which, ironically helps pay for the sniffer dogs, drug raids and heavy-handed police tactics that make sensational vote-winning headlines about the "war on drugs". This latest police sniffer dog operation is no more than a PR exercise designed to show support for a government drugs policy in chaos, and has more to do with controlling people's personal choices than keeping our streets safe. Many people are too frightened of drunken yobs attacking them to venture out on a Saturday night, with some too frightened to go out at all. These people deserve to know why it's appropriate to pull peaceful pot smokers from nightclub queues rather than arrest violent drunks. Carl Wagner Legalise Cannabis Alliance
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