Flint PD’s Chief Dicks gets anal about pants-sagging

Tuesday, July 22nd 2008 | Leave a Comment

Flint police officers attempt to “crack down” on sagging pants by enforcing a dress code that requires all residents to wear their pants specifically at their waistline. Now, Chief Administrator of Flint’s PD, David Dicks believes pants sagging to be a “national nuisance,” he tells the Free Press. Dicks also thinks pants-sagging is “indecent exposure” and “disorderly conduct”; he wants to put an end to it once and for all. From now on, if you are caught violating this law, you will be subject to 93 days to a year in jail and/or $500 in fine payments.

In my opinion, I think this is both time wasting and unnecessary. Surely there must be greater and more important laws to enforce? To dictate how a person should wear their clothes inside their community, other than in a corporate setting, is an unjust and class-less law at best. Unless Flint PD plans on administrating belts, as ludicrous as that sounds, I do not see the saggy-pants thing going away anytime soon. To say pants-sagging is indecent and disorderly, that is your personal opinion, but it is not not right to speak for everyone as a consensus. And do not stuff your fundamental views or values down the throats of people who were raised differently than you or are in a completely different generation. If pants-sagging is not hurting anyone it is not disorderly; if pants-sagging is not suggesting anything lewd/sexual it is not indecent. I think that this is a perfect example of innocent citizens of these United States getting their rights stripped of them; this country is slowly but surely becoming a harsh dictatorship. Pretty soon there is going to more frivolous laws stating how you should look, dress, and appeal to standards. Oh, wait, there are laws like that already!

Now, we here at T2W do not endorse any type of retaliation towards Chief, but if you would like to send him your prayers you can do so HERE.

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  • joyilicious

    this is pathetic, i dont live in the US but if they try to enforce such stupid laws tellig us how to dress here in the UK hell will let loose

  • HU Sweetheart

    i’m sorry, but the title of this post is wrong on so many levels….did you do that on purpose? lol

    on a serious note i agree with the previous poster. telling someone how to dress has got to violate some type of right that we have in this country. Does this rule apply to women too? Because it seems to me that there are some women who need to be fined for showing their thongs or showing butt cleavage.

  • J

    lol i agree the title is just wrong

    that bit dramtic

  • Meela

    the tilte is funny lol anyway this is bull, do they have a rule about girls showing too much skin all the damn time or havin thier thongs hangin out, what about too much cleavage? Where will it end, they pass this then they need to do the same with every other “indecent exposure”
    Complete bullshit im sorry

  • Brian

    The issue of sagging is a more complex issue than many of us want to admit. Sagging is unique in the sense that it’s a personal choice, and right of any person choosing to dress in this manner. On the other hand sagging far exceeds the idea… of good taste vs bad taste it has become synonymous with black culture, derogatory behavior , even gang related actions. Despite the fact that it just another reason for society to lock out those that choose to participate, and despite the fact that it should not matter … It does, and with that being said our youth just need to make better choices, and aspire to a higher level of achievement and place a higher value on self image, and worth as it relates to the world inwhich we live in. A small sacrafices for the greater good. We as a people were cool long before we ever adopted sagging. Swag is a state of mind and sense of personal style real bad boy’s move in silence, and you can’t move in silence with your pants making noise when you walk. God forbid that you can’t run with your pants hanging below your as(s)k me I just think we can do better that’s all I’m saying.See More

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