[Diddle E. Squat]

Not necessarily. I remember when we easily could get near a thousand kids together in a Houston lot on a weekend night, and with the growth of the area, closure of teen clubs, and how these things ebb and flow, a couple thousand can and does occur. And it DOES get rowdy, especially in the last several years(thankyou moral relativists). I think it would have been a good idea to go in and arrest the troublemakers they could identify, would be easy to find underage drinking, dope, etc. in the crowd. A highly publicized arrest would have done a good job of sending a message. That's what I thought originally happened, and I started out defending this raid.

But of course, they went far beyond that, arresting anything walking on two legs. Got children in the car? Too bad! Overreaction and bad policing. Rare, but occassionally it does happen, and this seems to be one of those exceptions.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Yes, yes, yes. There have been NO reports of arrests at that scene for dope, for disorderly conduct, for littering, for reckless driving, for anything but this "trespassing" whose status is, to put it charitably, far from legally clear (i.e. did KMart or Sonic ask for the notices to be posted). This kind of bungled bust can foster nothing but more contempt for the boys in blue, and more taxpayer costs for Houstonians. BUH-RILLIANT EINSTEIN MOVE, GUYS! "Houston, we have a problem!"