Stop lazy enforcement at Sunset Beach

Re: Sunset anything but quiet at popular St. Catharines beach, June 14

The problems at Sunset Beach have nothing to do with crowd numbers and everything to do with individuals.

There is no way of telling if the daily matrix of individuals flocking to city beaches is full of sensible people or potential troublemakers. Implementing subjective enforcement of a vague capacity number based on people and cars in a poorly lined parking lot and putting it in the hands of rent-a-cops without clear direction is harshly restrictive to all beach users and frankly an indication of lazy enforcement. The beach and grassy picnic area can handle 10 times the numbers we’ve seen this year.

Rather than restrict people from enjoying the beach, allocate better police presence if you believe there are behavioural issues; the new tax breakdown suggests 39.29 per cent of the regional allotment of our tax dollars goes to police, the No. 1 expense to taxpayers.

Put the police to good use, and stop penalizing the masses for the actions of a few poorly behaved individuals.

The beach belongs to the people, not to the administrators who are managing it poorly and restricting access based on an imaginary capacity number that has never been publicly communicated.

David Derocco

St. Catharines