It is about time that someone decided that our youths need to learn how to dress when out in public.
Flint Police Chief David Dicks said that his officers would begin arresting people who wear saggy/baggy pants that show boxer shorts, bare ass, or skivvies.
"Some people call it a fad," Dicks told the Free Press this week while patrolling the streets of Flint. "But I believe it's a national nuisance. It is indecent and thus it is indecent exposure, which has been on the books for years."
The crime, he says, is disorderly conduct or indecent exposure, both misdemeanors punishable by 93 days to a year in jail and/or fines up to $500.
Dicks, 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.
The American Civil Liberties Union is already scrutinizing the enforcement, something Dicks fully expected. But he said he's not backing down until the pants stop falling down. Freep for more
I do not really like our government, or police, trying to tell us what we should be wearing. However, we all know that having to watch or look at these people in their drooping drawers is for the most part, disgusting. Give them the tickets and to hell with the ACLU, which I do support in matters of importance. This ain't one of them.
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