Fashion Police: Flint Cracks Down on Sagging

Oh no!! The end is coming!! While I don't like the 'sagging' style, as the mother of 2 teenage boys, it's up to ME to make sure that they are dressed appropriately. Kids want to express themselves, sure, but they also need to be taught RESPECT and RESPONSIBILITY. When a child goes outside dressed like that, it is a direct reflection of how he/she was raised.
Yes, girls will hike up their skirts to make them shorter and boys will pull their pants down to make them sag, but if they're brought up right and taught right from wrong, believe me, they'll realize what's really important.
No law in the land should mandate how low a person's jeans can ride. No police department should even THINK they have that kind of authority. While I do understand the chief's point and feel his frustation, more emphasis should be placed on parenting and teaching kids values. Hip-hop is NOT to blame...lack of parenting is.

Oh no!! The end is coming!! While I don't like the 'sagging' style, as the mother of 2 teenage boys, it's up to ME to make sure that they are dressed appropriately. Kids want to express themselves, sure, but they also need to be taught RESPECT and RESPONSIBILITY. When a child goes outside dressed like that, it is a direct reflection of how he/she was raised.
Yes, girls will hike up their skirts to make them shorter and boys will pull their pants down to make them sag, but if they're brought up right and taught right from wrong, believe me, they'll realize what's really important.
No law in the land should mandate how low a person's jeans can ride. No police department should even THINK they have that kind of authority. While I do understand the chief's point and feel his frustation, more emphasis should be placed on parenting and teaching kids values. Hip-hop is NOT to blame...lack of parenting is.

The idea that "sagging" is a crime is the most idiotic law I have ever heard of. through out history, style of dress has moved to and from showing skin. anybody ovet 50 can remember the 60's MMMM? how short can that skirt go?????? or the 80's my era, how tight are your pants????? give me a break both my boys sag and think it looks great , colors match and no holes anywhere. did it ever occure to the lawmakers that mabybe they should be working on the fact that maybe a real crime might be taking place?? like robbery,murder,rape take your pick.. This is a great example of how the good old boy's decide what is morally right and wrong. read the Bible is sagging mentioned anywhere?????? We are leaving these kids wiht a whole lot of bad world out there. leave them alone................................................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Having raised two wonderful, intelligent sons, the "sagging" ?style? is VERY offensive to me!! I do NOT care to see any person's buttox or underwear in public or anywhere!! Those young guys (all ethnic groups), look like a bunch of "DUFISes" or "Dumb." They need to develop some "class" and self-respect. They would NOT be hired for any ???decent??? type job because they honestly LOOK like "Thugs" and "Hoodlums." It???s SAD to think what kind of parents these young people must have. I am very SAD for their futures ??? they need to be given a ???positive??? direction.

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Another way to harass us and and disrespect us people that choose to do what makes us happy and not everyone else. It's a good thing i wear a military uniform and fight the nations wars for freedoms i'm losing daily! 28yr. old white male...airborne veteran!

This beyond a "fad" already and I'm tired of it. It was cute 20 years ago but it's old and busted already. Fads come and go. Isn't it time to get a new style already? Or is todays youth, that's already taken MY generations music (hip-hop, oh, and I'm 50 btw) and recycled it since they have no original music to make themselves? Get a new style already, the sagging look is a tired look. Try to be original for once.

For those of you that don't know sagging did start in prisons because they don't allow belts. As for being arrested or fined for sagging, it's ridiculous. Imagine how the crime rate will climb while police waste time and money on this law. I think there are many more important issues needing to be dealt with before sagging. Flint residents should be outraged that their tax dollars are paying this man to "deal with this problem". If stopping sagging solved problems such as the economy, the lacking educational system, domestic violence, and child abuse I would support it. Imagine if men pulled up their pants and solved all of America's problems. Wouldn't that be something.

This beyond a "fad" already and I'm tired of it. It was cute 20 years ago but it's old and busted already. Fads come and go. Isn't it time to get a new style already? Or is todays youth, that's already taken MY generations music (hip-hop, oh, and I'm 50 btw) and recycled it since they have no original music to make themselves? Get a new style already, the sagging look is a tired look. Get original already.

Very good for Mr. Dicks, I think this kind of dressing is disgusting. I have been living in the USA over 30 yrs, and where I went to grade school and high school no body (boys) dressed like it. I just hope all around the USA takes this as an sample. Very good for the state of Michigan. Very good criminal offense law for Mr. Dicks. keep doing your job.

wear swim suit underneath....or will wearing swim suit get you a ticket also..
It just makes the person who wears jeans like this look butt stupid. Me I am more concerned with the tee shirts I see that say Fu*k Y*u on them and other nasty stuff. I wonder if they wear that stuff around their grandparents etc. I think Flint needs some $$$$$ and this is one way to get some xtra cash... Need a police chief with some Common sense...

to be honest its just another form of profiling. When have you ever seen a business man "sagging"? Only a certain group of people "sag". No man that dresses like that will get a white collar job so you know its mostly the "hood" that they are targeting. Yes there are non-"hood" guys out there that sag but I bet they are not white collar business men so it's profiling...sad but true. Personally I hate the look and any man that walks up to me trying to holler looking like that gets turned down fast, it's not attractive at all. As for the girls that show off their butts with the short shorts..hey...that's their business. It's not cute and in this society you are automatically labeled as with the "sagger". Should this cop bust the women to, absolutely but is it against the law for him to do..most likely it is but it's all about power, nothng we can do. It's sad that they want to lock these folks up for it yet chose to let a child molester go free. Where are our morals as a country?

Having raised two wonderful, intelligent sons, the "sagging" ?style? is VERY offensive to me!! I do NOT care to see ANY person's buttox or underwear, in public, or anywhere!! Those young guys (all ethnic groups), look like a bunch of "DUFISes" or "Dumb." They need to develop some "class" and self-respect. They would NOT be hired for any ???decent??? type job because they honestly LOOK like "Thugs" and "Hoodlums." It???s SAD to think what kind of parents these young people must have. I am very SAD for their futures ??? they need to be given a ???positive??? direction.

A police chief decides to make his own rules and risk violating the freedoms and protections we are entitled to in this country? Who does he think he is, the President...?