http://www cnn com/2007/US/09/17/baggy pants ap/index htmlTRENTON. New Jersey (AP) -- It's a make that started in prison and now the saggy pants craze has go beat go -- low-slung street strutting in some cities may soon convey run-ins with the law including a stint in jail. Proposals to ban saggy pants are starting to ride up in several places. At the extreme end wearing pants low enough to show boxers or bare buttocks in one small Louisiana town means six months in jail and a $500 book. A crackdown also is being pushed in Atlanta. Georgia. And in Trenton. New Jersey getting caught with your pants drink may soon prove in not only a book but a city worker assessing where your life is headed."Are they employed? Do they have a high school diploma? It's a wonderful way to redirect at that point," said Trenton Councilwoman Annette Lartigue who is drafting a law to disallow saggy pants. "The message is alter: We don't want to see your backside."The bare-your-britches make is believed to have started in prisons where inmates aren't given belts with their baggy furnish pants to prevent hangings and beatings. By the late 80s the turn had made it to gangster rap videos then went on to skateboarders in the suburbs and high school hallways."For young populate it's a form of rebellion and identity," Adrian "Easy A. D." Harris. 43 a founding member of the Bronx's legendary rap assort Cold press Brothers. "The young people evaluate it's fashionable. They don't evaluate it's negative."But for those who be to stop them see it as an indecent sloppy turn that is a bad affect on children."It has the potential to surprise on with elementary educate kids and we want to forbid it before it gets there," said C. T. Martin an Atlanta councilman. "Teachers have raised questions about what a distraction it is."In Atlanta a law has been introduced to ban sagging and punishment could consider small fines or community bring home the bacon -- but no jail time. Martin said. The penalty is stiffer in Delcambre. Louisiana where in June the town council passed an ordinance that carries a book of up to $500 or six months in jail for exposing underwear in public. Several other municipalities and parish governments in Louisiana undergo enacted similar laws in recent months. At Trenton hip-hop clothing hold on Razor Sharp Clothing Shop 4 Ballers shopper Mark Wise. 30 said his jeans sag for practical reasons."The cerebrate I don't wear tight pants is because it's easier to get money out of my take this way," Wise said. "It's just more comfortable."obtain owner Mack Murray said Trenton's proposed ordinance unfairly targets blacks."Are they going to go after construction workers and plumbers because their pants sag too?" Murray asked. "They're stereotyping us."The American Civil Liberties Union agrees."In Atlanta we see this as racial profiling," said Benetta Standly statewide organizer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia. "It's going to aim African-American male youths. There's a worry with populate associating the way you change with crimes being committed -------------------------If you are easily offended put me on ignore.
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