COMMENTARY


	Bag the backpack policy


	The Metropolitan Editorial News: Auraria Book Center changed its policy, allowing students to bring bags and backpacks into the store. Views: The policy, intended as convenience, is causing more trouble than itās worth.


	The Auraria Book Center should not allow bags or backpacks into the bookstore while students are shopping. Police recently responded to a call from ABC and, with bookstore security personnel, detained a woman they thought had shoplifted. After threat of an arrest warrant and some investigation, it turned out she hadnāt stolen anything. Based on this incident alone, the policy must be changed to avoid further embarrassments. The bookstore is only asking for trouble when it allows shoppers to bring in bags and packs. Itās an invitation to skilled shoplifters.

Theft naturally drives prices through the roof. And in a store with heavy traffic at the beginning of each semester, the risk of theft multiplies.

The solution is simple.

ABC should not allow students to shop with bags or backpacks. While it wonāt eliminate theft entirely, it will eliminate the need for searches, which ultimately irritate paying customers.

It also reduces the risk of false accusations, which likely cost ABC a paying customer for life.

The bookstore had the right idea in making shopping more convenient for students when they began allowing bags and packs in the store two years ago.

But if one person is falsely accused, the experiment obviously failed.