Dear Editor:
I couldn't help but cringe at reading your headline "Yorkton cops seize 23 pounds of marijuana".
It's not the temporary shortage of the narcotic this will create that did it (I may be one of the 3 people on this earth who have actually never smoked the stuff). What set me off was the term "cops".
I understand the term has apparently become acceptable as common usage in the print and television media, just as wearing a ball cap or a toque in restaurants and even to church is now apparently ok. Maybe I'm just old fashioned (like with the marijuana thing), but I think that if you wonder why the youth of today show little respect to our rules and institutions and professionals such as school teachers and 'the police', you need look no further than how they are portrayed by our so called professional media.
So, when I see or hear 'cops', I do feel a lack of respect; not for the police officers, but toward the author of the comment. 'Cops' may be colloquially correct, but it is unprofessional.
I do not expect that this is the last time I will see this term on your pages, but just wanted you to know that every time you print it, there will be at least a few of us shaking our heads just a little.
Jim Huziak
Yorkton, SK.
