Police in Charlotte, North Carolina, are planning an ordinance that is so vigorously unconstitutional, so wolf-faced crazy from concept to execution, that it may win an award for Most Bonkers Public Policy proposed for a city this year—this decade, even.
Let’s assume that every member of the Charlotte City Council succumbs to brain amoebas and they decide to pass the proposal being put forward by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. And let’s grant that it stands for more than 24 hours before a court—any court—slaps it down with extreme prejudice.
There’s no soft way to put this: “Public safety zones” would return Charlotte to de jure segregation. Or at least, to a standard whereby white authorities could decide where black citizens can and cannot congregate.
[For more of this story, written by Kriston Capps, go to http://www.citylab.com/crime/2...te-charlotte/410569/]
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