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Staff Just Wants Booze

Dissent

By Daniel M. Suleiman

There is a certain hypocrisy to the "Cops in Shops" program insofar as that before Scott Krueger's death, allocating valuable police resources to bust first years for buying a couple of 12-packs was not a priority for the Cambridge Police Department. And it should not be now. However, it is the staff that is being underhanded here, by pretending that it has logistical problems with the program when all it really wants is the right to buy booze illegally.

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