Adam Tarosky's column yesterday send one of the worst messages you can to the student body; that the police are your friend.

Some one might read it and actually trust a law enforcement official, especially in State College. Ask any defense attorney what to do if you have a run-in with the law, guilty or innocent. They will tell you under no circumstances are you to talk to the police, period. Especially in State College, the police are more interested in dispensing what they consider justice, then finding the truth; its all about 'nailing' the 'perp.'

They use many tactics that are not only unethical, but in many cases illegal; they prey on the fact that many students don't know the law or their rights. Besides their questionable use of force at the so-called "riots," last October they cited, confiscated the shirt of a man expressing his first amendment rights.

The officer needed the judge to explain to him these things called the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.