Creative Law Enforcement
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Posted:Oct 22, 2011 3:30 am
Last Updated:Oct 25, 2011 11:29 pm
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Here in my hometown of Dayton, Ohio, there was an area downtown, not sure if it was just a street corner or a bus stop, where they were having problems with loitering by teenagers, homeless people, suspected drug dealers, etc. How did they handle the problem? Not with nightsticks or citations, not by posting cops on the corner, or anything like that.
I don't often agree with the things the leader of this city do, but whoever came up with this idea deserves a raise for thinking "outside the box".
The city installed speakers that play nothing but Swiss yodeling loud enough for all to hear near the trouble spot, and the loiterers dispersed almost immediately!
Perhaps this line of thinking could be deployed to eradicate other undesirable elements from our city streets, say, loudspeakers blaring polka music or perhaps "Slim Whitman's Greatest Hits" around areas where the derilects, drug dealers and anarchist protestors are hanging out. This could prove to be yet another area in which my hometown was on the vanguard of innovation, in the tradition of the Wright Bros. and Charles Kettering.
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