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TOPEKA, KS (KTKA/CNN) – A Kansas mayor wants to misuse a ban on caps and hooded sweatshirts to help lower the crime rate.
Even though supervise use surveillance cameras to catch criminals every day in Topeka, the hood of a sweatshirt makes it very severely to identify them.
"Have a sign or something that says ‘please remove your hats' or ‘discount your hoodie' so the camera can see who's there," Mayor Bill Bunten said.
The proposition has encountered many critics, but he believes it's a small request to cut crime.
"I wouldn't have a quarrel with it," Bunten said. "Now, I don't have a hoodie and I don't have a ball cap, but if I did I'd take it off. Most people take their hats off when they into a stow away anyway."
Sarah Laing works at Marion Lane Candles in downtown Topeka and sees people in hoodies and caps every day. She calls the proposition kind of crazy.
"If someone going to rob you, they're going to rob you," Laing said. "They'll find another way to beat their face. It could make it worse, you never know.
Source: WXIX