Government Saves Us From Haircuts!!
Posted by Bill Anderson on November 8, 2010 09:22 AM
For all LRC readers who worry that government is not protecting us from the Bad Guys, read on, courtesy of the Orlando Sentinel!
- As many as 14 armed Orange County deputies, including narcotics
agents, stormed Strictly Skillz barbershop during business hours on a
Saturday in August, handcuffing barbers in front of customers during a
busy back-to-school weekend.
- It was just one of a series of unprecedented raid-style inspections the Orange County Sheriff’s Office recently conducted with a state regulating agency, targeting several predominantly black- and Hispanic-owned barbershops in the Pine Hills area.
- It was just one of a series of unprecedented raid-style inspections the Orange County Sheriff’s Office recently conducted with a state regulating agency, targeting several predominantly black- and Hispanic-owned barbershops in the Pine Hills area.
- In “sweeps” on Aug. 21 and Sept. 17 targeting at least nine shops,
deputies arrested 37 people the majority charged with “barbering
without a license,” a misdemeanor that state records show only three
other people have been jailed in Florida in the past 10 years.
- The operations were conducted without warrants, under the authority of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation inspectors, who can enter salons at will. Deputies said they found evidence of illegal activity, including guns, drugs and gambling. However, records show that during the two sweeps, and a smaller one in October, just three people were charged with anything other than a licensing violation.
- Orange County sheriff’s Capt. Dave Ogden, who commands the area that includes Pine Hills, described the operations as a “minuscule” part of a larger effort to snuff out crime in one of Central Florida’s notorious hot spots. (Emphasis mine)
- The operations were conducted without warrants, under the authority of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation inspectors, who can enter salons at will. Deputies said they found evidence of illegal activity, including guns, drugs and gambling. However, records show that during the two sweeps, and a smaller one in October, just three people were charged with anything other than a licensing violation.
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