In our opinion: Order to reduce urban crime or infringement on constitutionality, balancing act

Deseret News editorial

Published: Monday, Sept. 24 2012 12:00 a.m. MDT

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An order banning members of an Ogden street gang from associating with each other in public has been highly effective in reducing area crime, according to local police. It's also an infringement on constitutionally protected freedoms, according to civil libertarians.

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JoeCapitalist2

Orem, UT

Everyone seems in favor of the right to assemble until the KKK "assembles" outside your house when you are black, the OWS crowd "assembles" outside your business, or a gang of thugs "assembles" where your kids play.

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8:48 a.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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Hutterite

American Fork, UT

How come no one can seem to prohibit the reprehensible westboro church from assembling near military funerals?

10:19 a.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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one old man

Ogden, UT

Don't conservatives cry about "personal responsibility?" Aren't these punks just learning that "personal responsibility" means taking the consequences of their actions?

As a resident of Ogden, I have nothing but More..

9:08 a.m. Sept. 24, 2012
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