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...Cops in Shops" places undercover police officers in and around liquor stores in order to arrest minors attempting to illegally purchase alcohol. The first two weeks of the program's operation have resulted in the arrest and conviction of two Harvard students. The underhanded and arbitrary nature of the program, the questionable allocation of manpower that it demands and the inappropriate motivation for this sudden crackdown all lead us to condemn this latest measure from the Cambridge Police Department...
...Cops in Shops" program is arbitrary. Currently, 32 Cambridge liquor stores participate in the program. The Cambridge License Commission uses a lottery system to select sting targets on a given evening. Those unlucky individuals who are caught by the program face the harshest of consequences, but it is their poor luck alone that accounts for their special fate. Countless minors continue to purchase alcohol unobstructed. Granted, the example of others may serve as a deterrent, but there are far more just ways of enforcing the law. If the CPD wishes to crack down on the illegal purchase of alcohol, they...
According to Murphy, undercover police officers may pose as liquor store clerks, shelf stockers or customers...
Murphy said undercover officers are also located outside of liquor stores or in nearby locations and are "alerted to suspicious activity...
...Cambridge License Commission uses a lottery system to determine which liquor stores will be targeted, Murphy said...