The current drinking age in Colorado is twenty-one, but at one time it used to be eighteen. Anyone who is eighteen, these days has some way of getting alcohol if they want it anyway. So in my opinion they should drop the drinking age. Dropping the drinking age has pros and cons. If they were to drop the drinking age there would be less minor offenses for the police to worry about, so they could focus on the larger crimes. The kids would be a lot more responsible, because they are given more responsibilities. On the other hand some of the kids would be taking advantage of the situation, and would be irresponsible.
             If Colorado were to drop the drinking age then the police departments around the state could focus more on the larger crimes. This would help to drop the crime rate in Colorado dramatically. Everyone would realize that the cops are starting to enforce the laws a lot more. People would be very cautious when they are breaking the laws. Less people would be breaking laws, because they would know that the cops are watching them a lot more. With the police departments having much more free time on their hands the citizens in all of the communities would feel safer. We would have more room in the jail cells to hold hardened criminals, instead of the kids that got busted at parties with minors in possessions'. Since the law is not that way serious riots by students who want to do their boozing unhindered have broken out in many institutions. Some of the melees, such as those within the past two years at Ohio University, the University of Colorado, and Pennsylvania State University, have involved significant injuries and many arrest (smith, b8). Setting the drinking age at twenty-one has forced underage drinkers to party and hangout in less public, more dangerous places to avoid getting stopped by police for drinking illegally. This as the potential to cause heavy drinking, brawling, an
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