Attending a college party where there may be underage drinking while over 21

So you're saying you attended a party when you knew ahead of time that there would be illegal activity going on? If it were cocaine and not alcohol at this party, would you have still attended? No? Ok, well how is alcohol different from cocaine? Do you view some crimes to be a-ok but not others? In your future police work, does this mean that you will only enforce the laws which you think are important, but others you'll ignore because you don't think they're a big deal? If you attended this underage-drinking party and came across cocaine, what would you do? If you would leave the party if you saw cocaine, why would you choose to attend when it's some other illegal activity? How can you be trusted to enforce all of the laws of this state when here you knew there would be something illegal going on, yet you chose to actively participate in it? So you party with underage drinkers yet you're saying that as a cop you'd penalize them--so you're saying you'd only care about the law when you're on duty? And with that, how can we then trust you to continue following the law when you're off-duty? If you got hired, would you continue attending parties where minors are served alcohol? If not, how and why is it different when you were actively trying to become a peace officer? So the only thing that would keep you from participating in illegal activities is the badge?

When you posed this question to this subreddit, it's not like you asked anyone how you could stop a party where you were sure illegal things were going to happen. Are you not concerned about illegal activity? Are you not interested in preventing illegal activity? Why didn't you ask anyone here "How can I stop this"? Instead the question you posed was simply a question of 'What can I get away with'. Is that how you're going to act as a peace officer, according to what you can get away with? What other questionable activities would you like to get away with? If you saw a fellow officer drinking alcohol on the job, would you also think that's no big deal? You obviously know that your history and decision-making is going to be put into question both before you become an officer, and after. With that in mind, please take me through your decision-making process which led you to decide that attending a party where you knew illegal activity was going on was a better idea than not attending.

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