Connor's+Essay

The North Kingstown “Party Patrol” is a police task force whose main objective is to stop underage drinking issues in North Kingstown. However, this task force is trying to stop an unpreventable issue: teenage drinking. These police officers force teenagers to party in more discrete locations increasing, not helping, the risk of danger.  Teenage partying has been around for as long as I can remember, and will most likely continue rather than be stopped by the party patrol. In Rhode Island, Barrington particularly, teenage drinking has been a problem. This patrol was created in North Kingstown adults to prevent NK teens from spiraling out of control.  The first viewpoint on this issue is that it has been helping our society. This party patrol finds most of the illegal parties and has been breaking them up effectively. The second viewpoint is that this patrol is a wasteful operation. This task force stops only the visible parties, not parties in general, and when kids hear that the party patrol is coming, they start making bad decisions. Intending on spending the night at ones house, they hear that the party patrol is coming, grab their keys, and attempt to drive home. This viewpoint also feels that this force is unnecessary and a waste of taxpayer dollars.  Out of the two viewpoints, I favor the second one more. This viewpoint addresses the fact that the party patrol is causing more problems than it is solving. We need to cut the party patrol and use the funds to make a more positive environment, such as a teen center that can be used by teens to maybe change their minds before they decide to drink for the night. Teen drinking will most likely never stop, so we should stop spending money on this negative policy and look for a more positive one. .