No doubt there is a problem in Fayetteville with public intoxication, and no doubt they’re attempting to disguise it by mixing drinks in iced tea cans. But, there comes a point when the “solution” is worse than the problem. They have reached that point.
The main point here is that the man was not in uniform and didn’t identify himself as a police officer. If a random dude walks up to you, accuses you of drinking, then demands to peek in your can, you’d probably tell him to go take a hike as well.
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(Police) Major Colvin "The Wire"
(After he proposed Drug Usage Zones in Baltimore)
The brown bag was a great moment in civic compromise. Some “nameless smokehound” put his bottle of booze in a brown bag and the police left him alone. The consumption of alcohol in public places is illegal, and enforcing the law was an incredible drain on police resources.
” No doubt there is a problem in
Fayetteville with public intoxication, and
no doubt they’re attempting to disguise it
by mixing drinks in iced tea cans.”
There is plenty of doubt, until someone show it is actually a significant issue.
” But, there comes a point when the “solution”
is worse than the problem.”
Which is the big issue. Laws aren’t ends to themselves. Laws serve the public, not themselves.