The DC Securitron

DJ Eurok over at Upset the Setup is suitably upset at the fact that the DC police is taking a very… er… radical approach to “rescue the city from it’s out-of-control violence.” It basically involves roping off neighborhoods and having cops screen anyone who comes in or goes out of the areas – making sure they “have business being there.”

Huh? Am I reading correctly? No visitors allowed either? What if you forgot your ID, do you go to jail? Are these going to be like admissions lines to a ballpark, or more like the TSA checkpoints at the airports? Or are these cops going to be doing the full-on riot gear thing?

For some reason I think this may cause a hell of a lot more problems than it could potentially alleviate…