Last week EVERYONE predicted this type of headline proclaiming "Look how many bad drug people MVPD protected you from" A problem that only existed in the minds of the police.

Total waste of money. MVPD thumps their chest, tax payers sigh, "When do we get REAL traffic law enforcement?!?!"

EVERYONE? Are you sure it was on this forum?

Thank you Sparty, I stand corrected. Not everyone, only those who were right.

We are all entitled to our own opinion. You "Poor asset allocation" have yours and others might not agree. I have seen the lives wrecked or lost when people use drugs and I cannot understand how it is that people can't seem to have a great life without them. There are many down sides to drug use and to try and convince people it isn't a big deal is just plain wrong. Instead of treating the issue as a non existent problem we need to admit that the world would be better without them and the crime that comes with them. It is easy to never start using drugs, drinking included, but it is not easy to stop. Why not save our selves from the effects before we can't. If you don't use drugs you won't be involved in a real life wrecking existence from them and maybe you won't have to depend on the public to support you when you end up on the street because you aren't a person anyone would employee or associate with. The children today and in the future will have to face enough in order to have a good life without drugs to help them fail in life. Drugs are not good, not legal and not smart.

PH: I assume you would support the arrest and imprisonment in concrete prisons of people who use the hardest hard drug of all, alcohol? Will you support the reinstatement of alcohol prohibition to protect society against the scourge of social drinkers?

As far as drugs go, would you have supported the arrest and imprisonment of such losers as Steve Jobs, Paul McCartney, Carl Sagan, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and millions of others?

Your views of drugs are shaped by a century of lies and propaganda. Obviously, all drugs can be abused, alcohol worst of all. But most legal and illegal drug users enjoy their use, use in moderation, and don't get themselves or others into any trouble (unless the police show up to arrest them for consensual behavior). Many, like Steve Jobs, find their use of certain drugs to be extremely valuable, even life-changing.

I'm sure the MV police, like all police departments, have so-called "perverse" incentives in which they profit in some way (Federal money, military equipment, etc.) from jacking up their arrest numbers. Perhaps the MV Voice would like to do some actual journalism and investigate whether and how police funding is tied to arrest numbers? This story of dozens of my fellow citizens arrested for ENTIRELY CONSENSUAL BEHAVIOR strikes me as one more good argument for defunding police departments.

The ISSUE is biased enforcement, not the use of drugs. MVPD makes a big deal out of trying to catch kids doing drugs, but let's all the drunks hit the roads shows FILLED with inebriated people. Where is the special check point after those shows.

Alcohol is the drug that is far far more likely to take the lives of our children. Alcohol will help your daughter freeze to death after a party in Tahoe. Alcohol will kill your honor student at his fraternity initiation. It will happen and continue to happen because of alcohol, but the special task forces get assigned to the raves...as reported, things were pretty mellow. When I see pre-concert alters and enforcement @ sobriety checks after a George Strait show I'll say good job MVPD. _THAT_ is an action that would protect far more than what happened this weekend.

pre-concert alerts and enforcement...alters would be weird

You claim others fall prey to "lies and propaganda" yet all you do is say that people will be imprisoned for their "consensual" activities. The laws have changed so no one that is in simple possession of a drug is going to be imprisoned. The police at these events focus on the sellers. The drugs they sell are often misrepresented as drugs other than what they are selling.

The poor girl that froze to death in Tahoe did not have alcohol in her system. She unfortunately had meth and other psychoactive drugs in her system. But I'm sure her dealer told her it was pure MDMA.

We, the people of Mountain View, would still be safer and better served if the cops tried as hard to find drunk drivers after shows by setting up a check point, as they did to find the scant few "dealers" they did find.
Did they find any? I guess we wait for the charges, then a bunch of money spent back and forth w/ the lawyers and DA, then probation and out on the streets.

Also, plenty of people have frozen to death because of ONLY alcohol, but you're right, the girl in Tahoe was on a bunch of other stuff as well.

Drug users down but still "high"! I wish I had though of that title! LOL ;)