Flint police chief going after wearers of saggy pants

[AgentM]

Flint, Michigan's police chief isn't backing down from his crackdown on saggy pants.

The American Civil Liberties Union said last week that today would be the deadline for chief David ***** to halt the stopping and searching of individuals with low-riding pants exposing underwear or bare bottoms.

Legal action may be forthcoming because ***** said he isn't changing anything.

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"Your new practice of stopping and threatening young men with disorderly conduct for wearing 'saggy pants' is a blatant violation of the United States Constitution," the ACLU wrote to ***** in a letter last week.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/21/usa3
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Man, this new police chief has obviously let his new powers go to his head and is running the town like his own little mini-despotism. This is laughable!

Edit: Apparently the forum bleeps out the chief's last name, haha.

[FilmFestGuy]

Flint, Michigan's police chief isn't backing down from his crackdown on saggy pants.

The American Civil Liberties Union said last week that today would be the deadline for chief David ***** to halt the stopping and searching of individuals with low-riding pants exposing underwear or bare bottoms.

Legal action may be forthcoming because ***** said he isn't changing anything.

<snip>

"Your new practice of stopping and threatening young men with disorderly conduct for wearing 'saggy pants' is a blatant violation of the United States Constitution," the ACLU wrote to ***** in a letter last week.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/21/usa3
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Man, this new police chief has obviously let his new powers go to his head and is running the town like his own little mini-despotism. This is laughable!

Edit: Apparently the forum bleeps out the chief's last name, haha.

Haha - we should refer to him as Wieners for the purposes of the thread. Kinda like that Rudy Homosexual, the Olympic sprinter.

As far as the saggy pants go, I agree with the ACLU. If you wanna look like a dumb ***, then look like a dumb *** and I hope you trip over them. If their bare behinds are showing then I think he can ticket them, because that's technically indecent exposure. But boxer shorts are no different than swim trunks and briefs are no different than speedos. To ticket them because their dainties show...Stupid. Is he going to ticket every woman who has a bra-strap showing?

[eugene40]

This is silly. If someone wants to look like a prisoner then by all means let them look like a prisoner. Personally I think it is great. I was chasing this guy one time and he lost his pants tripped and did about three rolls down some steps, cracked his head open and I had to call for a medic unit. One of the funniest things I have ever seen. Mind you just before he fell he stated "your never going to catch me pig!"

[::Major_Baker::]

Flint is a ****hole.
All the violent crime rates in Flint are at many times that of the national level.
I think that what he is doing is wrong, but sort of funny. I have a special hatred for thugs, so before he gets shut down, I hope he does find some 'saggers' that have drugs and weapons on them and get them off the streets before they hurt someone. For the rest of the kids that are getting harrassed for no reason, that sucks, but maybe they will stop dressing like idiots.

I don't expect this practice to last very long, and unless the officers are stopping kids with their actual buttocks showing, they (Flint PD) could get themselves in a lot of trouble.

[::Major_Baker::]

some more info:
*****, 41, broke down his interpretation of the laws as such: Pants pulled completely below the buttocks with underwear showing is disorderly conduct; saggy pants with skin of the buttocks showing is indecent exposure, and saggy pants, not completely below the buttocks, with underwear exposed results in a warning.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080708/NEWS06/307080009

[Heads_On_Pikes]

Put an orange jumpsuit on them -- problem solved. I like it.

[Antipathy]

Ah yes, the unmistakable pong of authoritarianism in the so-called land of the free. This is what happens in a country where too much power is given to local police authorities. I am grateful that I live in a country where such illiberal edicts cannot be enacted whimsically just because some jumped up little Hitler gets to become top cop! :cool:

On the other hand, I actually have some sympathy with the chief's disapproval of this modern dress style: I was sat in a café with my family a few of weeks ago when a couple in their late teens came in and the lad was wearing his pants so low his pubes were on show. :eek: Put me right off me toasted teacake it did. :(

[MikeD4o7]

Flint is a ****hole.
All the violent crime rates in Flint are at many times that of the national level.
I think that what he is doing is wrong, but sort of funny. I have a special hatred for thugs, so before he gets shut down, I hope he does find some 'saggers' that have drugs and weapons on them and get them off the streets before they hurt someone. For the rest of the kids that are getting harrassed for no reason, that sucks, but maybe they will stop dressing like idiots.

I don't expect this practice to last very long, and unless the officers are stopping kids with their actual buttocks showing, they (Flint PD) could get themselves in a lot of trouble.

I'm not sure if it's possible to "dress like an idiot". Fashion doesn't really follow rules of common sense. For example, our most "distinguished" outfits are the most uncomfortable... which could mean that maybe we all dress like idiots :p