Are baggy pants a fashion choice or crime? Cities have passed laws before, and they have been ignored, but now in Flint Michigan, it’s serious.
The head of police, Chief Dick, ordered the arrest of people known as “saggers.” They can be arrested on site, serve up to a YEAR in jail and pay a huge fine for what Chief Dick calls “immoral self expression.” (I am NOT making this up!)
He also said just having baggy pants could be probable cause for cops to search saggers.
Fashion Facist Run Amok - States Banning Baggy Styles?
There is a nation wide crackdown on baggy pants in the U.S. The Man says parents are under-aware of the origins of the droopy drawers. Seems the fad started in prison where you can’t have belts. So the… [More]
It's a move other municipalities have tried before on a style that's been around for decades. But Dicks, who took over the department on an interim basis last month, has employed a particularly harsh approach—one that some critics are calling downright illegal. So far, Dicks has only issued warnings to saggers, but he's made it clear that anyone with pants below the butt—whether or not they've got boxers underneath—is violating the city's disorderly conduct code, punishable by 93 days to a year in jail and fines of up to $500. "Everybody's talking about it," says Tonio Watkins, 18, a local high-school student. "I don't like what they're doing. I've been dressing like this my whole life."
(newsweek)
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