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...quell a riot with pepper spray. At a recent meeting convened by city politicians and police to investigate the causes of Snelgrove’s death, police said that one of the major crowd-control problems that night was the number of inebriated students who spilled out of keg parties from off-campus houses. This tracking law would help police plan for similar concentrations of kegs in the future...
...police have had problems with keg parties in residential neighborhoods,” Murphy said. “It’s our duty to protect public safety and quality of life. Something needs to be done and this is a necessary first step...
More than 10 states and various local jurisdictions across the country have instituted similar keg-tracking legislation. Tracking kegs would allow police to focus more attention on houses with multiple kegs, which are often the source of problems, Evans said...
This includes rowdy behavior, but also underage drinking, he said. “This sort of fixes responsibility on whoever purchases the keg,” said Evans...
However, Jeff Dolin of Blanchard’s Wine and Spirits in Allston disagreed about the possible effect of keg tracking...