What will this Christmas bring?

Let's hope this Christmas is a good one for the City and everyone living and working here. We've escaped the worst of the weather and the crowds in town seem to indicate lots of present buying going on. Sadly every Christmas and New Year is tinged with the bad experiences for some people due to drinking too much and then fighting in night clubs or within families. There's been quite a bit in the press recently about the harm caused by too much drinking and caused to people especially young people. I'll be out on New Year's Eve with my colleagues who face drunken violence as a daily policing duty. What a waste of my staff's time to have to spend so much of it controlling people who cant enjoy themselves without getting out of their head on alcohol. When you think about the amount spent on it then who are the mugs? I wish more of the money passed over pub and club bars and then vomited onto the ground outside could have been spent on meaningful gifts for family and friends. I met a drug user recently who had enough money to buy himself crack but not enough to buy his kids presents. I don't judge I just support my colleagues in their hard work and sometimes wish it could be different.