There <i> Is</i> a Law; It Should Be Enforced
If Linda Blandford’s reporting (“Golden Boys, Princes of Darkness,” May 14) is correct, some immediate retraining and instruction in duties is due Deputy Patrick Duff--and perhaps the entire Sheriff’s Department.
What he could have done, and should, was round up the hooligans and call for enough backup to cart them off to the nearest jail, where they could wait for their parents to pay the damages.
Indeed, ordinary common decency would demand that they themselves be made to repair all damage and apologize publicly to all concerned. Since they apparently are known, some such action might possibly yet be taken.
What do you suppose the cowardly delinquency of the sheriff’s deputy has taught these so-called “kids”?
W.A. SCHRAEGLE
Newport Beach
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