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Originally Posted by Nutterbug
It seems to me that the effort should go towards coming down harder on the individual troublemakers responsible for the problems, such as increasing fines and jail time for those who rowdy it up and maybe even ban them from the premises, than shutting them down early, punishing all the legitimate and civilized patrons, and killing all the businesses that cater to them.
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Absolutely.
In other cities, you act like a jackass, you pay the price. In Vancouver, they arrest you drive you to Stanley Park, then drop you off. Jump on the field at a Lions game and again, at worst you get kicked out of the building. In Philadelphia, they had both a jail and a community court in the bowels of their former stadium. Jump on the field there and you are sitting in a jail cell for hours after the game ends and you get out with a court date.