What MPD is trying to pass off as a policy friendly to businesses is actually illegal. It is entrapment to set up a situation that encourages individuals to break the law to the expressed purpose of arresting them. Alerting the liquor store and bar workers will be the equivalent of establishing an atmosphere encouraging young people to break the law. This cannot be permitted. On a more abstract note, MPD s policy is blatant discrimination.
Age is a protected category under United States law along with sex, race and religion.
This situation is akin to racial profiling. For the same reason that you cannot pull over blacks due simply to the color of their skin, MPD cannot target bars close to Georgetown because young people go to them. It is blatant discrimination and targeting of a protected class. Everyone who goes to or went to Georgetown knows that MPD targets the Georgetown area. Should any Georgetown student be arrested or targeted under this new MPD policy, I encourage them to explore legal remedies against MPD to the fullest extent possible.