Any of you who have read me over at Joe’s Journal know that I have a nice, well-founded disgust of the way college kids are treated by local law enforcement. My personal experience (and the experience of most of my peers) is that of having our civil rights demolished by the Ocean Township Police Department as they walked into our house at all hours of the night “just to check.”
Imagine someone walking into your house at 2:00am when everyone was asleep…
Anyway, what gets me going is when the local papers crucify college students for all of the “bad” that they do to the communities. Focusing on Ocean Township for a moment, let me bring you three stories from a local paper in Northern Coastal Monmouth County from The Coaster.
First, we have the story of how a simple crash in a parking lot led to a major heroin arrest in Ocean Township. From the article:
After an investigation police learned that Jeffery J. Dale, 27, had thrown several bags of heroin and a hypodermic syringe into a nearby storm drain.
Police found Dale to be under the influence of drugs at the scene and he was taken into custody to the Ocean Township Police Station for processing.
Yeah…let’s make sure that our local police force is going up and down Roosevelt Avenue staring at a sorority house because there are Greek letters in their window and not keeping an eye on the creepy heroin guy over by Target. Ridiculous.
Now we go to one of the new economic development projects in Ocean Township – the Wegmans shopping complex! While the Ocean Township Police Department is directed to go and inspect those “unruly” college students miles away there’s a good old-fashioned bank robbery going on at the Bank of America in the new development!
Whew! Thank God there is extra surveillance over near the college houses and not by the bank! Those damn college students might have left their garbage out or parked too far from the curb!
And…right down the street from this place was yet another wonderful event in recent Ocean Township history: Ocean Man Charged in Robbery! How exciting?!?
But let me just say from the bottom of my heart, it’s great to know that the college student who is coming home from the bar on Saturday night has a huge calvary of police following him. Because seriously, what would happen if that bastard college student wasn’t be watched? He could be selling heroin, robbing a bank, or stealing from a gas station!
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