From wjz.com (click here for the whole article): 

TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) ? Loud parties, drinking on the streets and general bad behavior have people who live in off-campus apartment communities around the Towson University campus fed up.   

 

Mike Hellgren reports Baltimore County police officers Joshua Miller and Sean Dissett have been assigned to crack down on behavior that’s not only bad but also escalating to dangerous.

  
That’s right, the Baltimore County Police Department has assigned two entire police officers to rid Towson of rowdy drunkards. 

This article actually confused me on so many levels. They refer to this assignment as a “pilot program.” They’re going to see if it’s effective and then decide whether or not to continue it. So, you mean to tell me that before now there have been no police officers assigned to patrol Towson on weekend nights? Is this a landmark idea? I understand that these officers are specifically there to respond to alcohol/party related incidents, but I imagine if they saw a robbery or a rape in progress they would step in, so how are they different than any other patrolling police officer?  

Second of all, if you read the whole article and watch the video report, you’ll get confused even more. It seems as though the reporter didn’t tag along with two of the officers assigned to patrol Towson, rather he tagged along with THE two officers assigned to patrol Towson. If you’re going to assign two guys to police an entire town, one of them had better be RoboCop. That’s all I’m saying.   

Unless this is just a case of poor journalism, it sounds like the BCPD is… well… stupid. If they think that assigning two people to do this job is going to make a real difference, they are mistaken. If they think that this is going to be an effective PR weapon, to show that they are serious about “cracking down,” then they’re seriously underestimating our intelligence.  

I, for one, am outraged. If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go down a handle of vodka and urinate all over Donnybrook. Who’s gonna stop me?