Youth detention needs serious reevaluation

In response to the new $4 million juvenile detention facilities: Maybe the county needs to spend less money on supporting the acts of an overaggressive, over-paid, and rampantly oppressive police force and more on how to fix the problems of a never-ending cycle of police targeting and harassment of young people, kids on probation, drug use, etc, rather than creating a market economy for child prisoners in our town and condoning a ridiculous vice squad police force that drives kids to be trapped in the court and probation system that keeps them locked into a downward cycle of oppression and guilt.

We need to take a serious reevaluation of our law enforcement in this county, not encourage them to make their paychecks by harassing, policing, and caging our children.

WES HANSON

Sandpoint