In an unannounced sweep, authorities this morning moved in to conduct a search for drugs at the Lakewood High School.
Officials from the Ocean County Prosecutors Office were joined by K9 officers as the converged upon the Somerset Avenue school shortly before 9 AM in search for drugs.
“Lakewood High School was choosen randomly and unannounced today for the Police K9 visit,” said Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Spokesman Al Della Fave. “The drug sweep this morning is part of OCPO’s effort to assure a drug free school zone and safe learning environment for our children.”
Della Fave tells TLS they don’t release the results of the search to the media, but if drugs are found, they notify the parents and the administration so that corrective measures can be taken.
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KPICASA_GALLERY(OCPODrugSweepAtLHS#)
shows you what a sad state of affairs we are in, if a HIGH SCHOOL has to undergo a suprise drug bust
It does not have to do through this. The administration did not call for this. This is a random intrusion. Why should we be subjected to dogs walking through our halls? Moreover, this interfered with our lesson. We lost 15 minutes of instruction due to the shelter-in-place.
I wish if the politicians and others would just leave the schools to the educators.
Unfortunately the administrative code forces public schools to cooperate with these type of operations.
Unfortunately, this is the state of the world that we live in, where drugs are in abundance, no matter where you go. In the riches of places, and the poorest of places. The biggest problem to me personally is the parents that are in the “know” of what their children are doing, and the parent’s that “don’t know” what their children are doing.. JMO
This search has nothing to do with Lakewood. I teach at high school in Ocean County and last year we were randomly selected by the OCPO for a surprise drug search. The drugs are everywhere from urban to suburban from inner city to shore towns.
Undoubtedly the war on drugs and the associated expensive and intrusive nonsense necessary to enforce it (like raiding a public school with dogs) are one of the biggest moral and practical failures of our society.
The fact that our prisons are overflowing with non violent drug offenders and addicts who for the same amount of money it costs to imprison could be helped or rehabilitated (or just left alone at no cost to society) is perhaps the biggest single indictment of our society and should make any decent person sick to their stomach.
Try Toms river. I think the drugs are running rampid.
Ari is right. And to #4, drugs are much less prevalent now than they were in the 1970s when everyone drank beer and got high before school. Not to mention all the shootings we had. My neighboring high school had two shootings in the cafeteria in 1978 and we had a bomb in my junior high 1976. I have not yet detected a kid who was high in my past decade of teaching. This is just an exercise of police power for no reason.
I’m very glad that they do this. Though it is a sad commentary on the society we live in, it is a necessity. Why wouldn’t we want to keep our children from accessing drugs that are as easy as going to someone’s locker to get it, right there at school…how convenient. Not to mention all the kids knowing who it is making easy money, able to buy whatever they want…other kids will want to start freaking too. Let them bring dogs. If there’s nothing to find, it shouldn’t take long and if there is something to find, we should be glad they found it.
I wrote “start dealing” not freaking. Lol. But they can freak if they wanna. No law against that 🙂
Leaving (hard) drug users alone DOES cost us all
Kitty,
It costs about 30,000 dollars a year to house an inmate, and they don’t come out cured. What we do to addicts and non violent drug “crimes” in this country is a travesty, and is a much sadder commentary on the society in which we live then the fact that people do drugs is.
Give these kids a compelling reason to be straight. Give them hope and dreams and a future. It starts at home. Then it must continue in school. Parents have to parent and teachers need to teach.
BUT LETS KEEP SPENDING MORE FOR “EDUCATION”.
Out of Towner:
We gave a great reason to go straight!
We showed them that absolutely ANYONE can become the POTUS!
Yeah! They got dreams.
“(or just left alone at no cost to society)” -Ari
How naive are you? Have you ever met a drug addict? spending every waking moment of their day to get a fix, stealing from their families and community just to sell other people’s belongings to get a bag of dope…. I don’t know if you are oblivious or just walking around daily with your eyes closed.
as an LEO in Ocean County I see it every day… why do you think all these burglaries, thefts and frauds are occuring? Mainly by “non-violent Drug Offenders” that need money to get high.
What’s the positive reinforcement if they don’t find anything?
Uhh,
Actually I have lost an immediate family member to drug addiction, and have met plenty of addicts. What experience do you have? It’s like military things the politicians who have never served are always pushing for more wars while those who have seen what actually happens are repulsed by it. The point is for less money then we spend locking these people up, which does nothing but destroy them and any further hope they may have for a future we can rehabilitate most of them. The policies we have in place have failed and continue to fail all while destroying the lives and families of those most affected by this problem.
Of course as an LEO you have to justify to yourself what you do. When it’s your child who has a misdimeanor and arrest record for smoking a joint get back to me. If these laws were working then the problem would be getting smaller. But they are not because treating what is essentially a sickness as a crime does not work.
imagine the laws and policies in place were such that when a family member/spouse/good freind was having a drug issue an LEO was the first one to call because they would actually HELP make the person better. Not destroy them. What do you think happens now?
Ari
Lets get one thing straight. Intelligent people can disagree about how to deal with this issue but lets not make believe that drug addicts are “victims” of a “sickness” as if they’re cancer patients.
Although we should sympathize and assist them they are more responsible for their condition than anyone else. I’ve heard too much talk about how they “deserve” treatment and we have an “obligation” to spend taxpayers’ money to rehabilitate them.
The main (not the only) lense through which we should strategize to treat this crisis is for the benefit of the law-abiding society, not the abuser.
No way,
If locking people up did not cost anything an argument could possibly be made for your position.
The point is that it costs about 30,000 a year to keep someone in jail and that is not counting the costs involved in prosecuting the cases, and the fact that generally people do not come out of jail cured of their addiction.
The taxpayer’s money is being spent anyway. It can be spent destroying lives or helping to fix them, how is destroying lives better for the law abiding citizens of any society then rehabilitating the offenders?