JFD> You are correct in that we have different ideas of what ZERO TOLERENCE
 JFD> means.
 JFD> To me it means that NO ___proscribed substance___ is tolerated for any
 JFD> reason.
You are correct. It may mean one thing at school and another in the police
profession. It can even mean something different, I guess, in two different
police departments. I've tried to explain the concept as we would use it
here at my department. It has nothing to do with school policies or changing
the law. Forget about sugar pills and the police, as sugar pills are not
against the law. Let me try to give you another example below:
You and your neighbors get together and have a meeting about the biggest
problem you have in your neighborhood. You all decide that the biggest
problem is the open use and distribution of marijuana and you all sign a
petition demanding that the police department stop this problem. If you
initiated a "ZERO TOLERANCE" program which was a cooperative effort between
the police and the citizens, existing marijuana laws would be used to the
limit of the law and advertised in the neighborhood. We might even put up
"DRUG FREE ZONE" signs at all entrances to the neighborhood, all depending
upon the amount of support and funding the project had. There would be no new
laws, just a concentration on a specific target problem identified in the
neighborhood. There would be no use of school policy, as the police are not
authorized to use school policy unless they are invited onto the school
grounds to assist, etc. On the street, the public law and no other would be
used. Does this help to explain a little?
Tom Rightmer - A Victims' Rights Advocate
... Never, never, never *MOON* a werewolf !!
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