DC to introduce "neighbourhood safety zones"

And a rose by any other name means to say: cordoned off areas accessible only to those able to prove with ID that they belong there at checkpoints.
I guess we should be expecting metal detectors, drug dogs and the like to be present as well soon enough ...

Articles:
DCist.com
MSNBC

Don't like where this is going ...

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