Dear Editor: When it comes to cracking down, spraying down or beating down some defenseless 19-year-old at Freakfest in order to protect the plate-glass windows on State Street, Madison’s “thin blue line” proves fit and robust.
….On campus, the dean of students remains obsessed with removing the UW from Playboy’s list of party schools or tracking down freshmen pranksters, while virtually ignoring serious attacks. A young student is kidnapped and raped within shouting distance of Bascom Hall, and the University Police announce on their Web site that the “crime of the month” involves a couple of kids stealing some banner.
They say that no increased patrols are necessary and return to sniffing at dorm room doors to nab pot smokers. I’m just waiting for them to blame students for stumbling out of the library in a stupor from studying so late at night.