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Ryan Bridge: Is the patch ban going to solve the underlaying causes of gang crime?
Everyone hates gangs. Unless you're in them, you hate them because they intimidate, they cause misery, they beat their wives, they do all sorts of awful things.
But I just worry that the gang patch ban in and of itself is not really going to solve the underlying causes, is it?
And what I worry about is the waste that could go into this.
The waste of time, police energy and resources. Every time Betty sees a gang patch, she rings in 111, which is fine because I know it's intimidating. However, that is going to tie up some police time which could be better spent solving an actual crime.
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