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Originally Posted by jeremywilhelm

We already have public disturbance and drunkness charges, if it really is that bad, the cops should be handing one of those out.

That's the point of the article dude. Seriously, did you even read it?

The point was that most of the stuff on the bylaw was already illegal, and that this new bylaw just gave cops differnt ways of dealing with it.
In some cases, they can now give out court appearances when they coudln't before, and in some cases they can give out fines, where they coudn't before.

I read another atricle about his in the Sun on Monday or Tuesday (Was actually waiting for it to get here, and was supprised it didn't, guess I was wrong), and it gave the example of people being drunk jerks on long weekends. Before all the cops could really do was throw them in the drunk tank, which most of them didn't care about. Now they can give them a fine, which is much more likely to get them to quit whatever they are doing.