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Escape from . . . D.C.?
I didn't realize that this was one of the sequels. But it sure sounds like it.
D.C. police will seal off entire neighborhoods, set up checkpoints and kick out strangers under a new program that D.C. officials hope will help them rescue the city from its out-of-control violence.
Under an executive order expected to be announced today, police Chief Cathy L. Lanier will have the authority to designate “Neighborhood Safety Zones.” At least six officers will man cordons around those zones and demand identification from people coming in and out of them. Anyone who doesn’t live there, work there or have “legitimate reason” to be there will be sent away or face arrest, documents obtained by The Examiner show.
Wait. They think that they're serious.
“This is a very targeted program that has been used in other cities,” Nickles told The Examiner. “I’m not worried about the constitutionality of it.”
Others are. Kristopher Baumann, chairman of the D.C. police union and a former lawyer, called the checkpoint proposal “breathtaking.”
Shelley Broderick, president of the D.C.-area American Civil Liberties Union and the dean of the University of the District of Columbia’s law school, said the plan was “cockamamie.”
Gee, ya think? A site devoted to DC area news has more information, including this comment:
Can you say Police State? The Examiner has the scoop on a controversial new program announced today that would create so-called "Neighborhood Safety Zones" which would serve to partially seal off certain parts of the city. D.C. Police would set-up checkpoints in targeted areas, demand to see ID and refuse admittance to people who don't live there, work there or have a “legitimate reason” to be there. Wow. Just, wow.
Papers, please.
Jim Downey
(Via BoingBoing. Cross posted to Communion of Dreams.)
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if they try to pull this shit...
...i'm runnin'em. i swear. although, i'm a white irish kid living in shaw.
so they'll probably just think i'm trying to get away and let me go.
:|
ve haff vays of dealing viss your kind
I'll bet that it targets neighborhoods of people with slightly more melanin than the "real 'merkins" that don't seem to be very upset by this travesty. "First they came for," etc. We live in horrible times that started in November of 1980 and may have too much momentum to be successfully reversed. I have never wanted to be wrong about anything as much as I do about this.
I think the phrase you
I think the phrase you really want is:
"Where's your pass, boy?"
Looks like middle class envy of gated communities.
I saw this earlier. How can
I saw this earlier. How can something like this be seriously considered and not creep out everyone who hears about? And just in case that wasn't enough, according to Radley Balko some of the neighborhoods are coming around to all the houses asking to do searches.
I know DC is supposedly having some issues with crime but this really doesn't seem like the way to deal with it.
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