Brooklyn Pol Fights Crack By Way of Sagging Pants

Brooklyn politician Eric Adams is hoping get crack use down by urging Crown Heights youth to pull their pants up. To that end he’s spending $2,000 in campaign cash to erect six giant bill boards issuing the commandment “Stop the Sag!” There’s an accompanying Youtube video (below) in which Adams announces “If we raise our pants we raise our image,” and “We are better than this.” Supposedly the trend has its origins in prison culture, where inmates’ pants sag because they aren’t permitted to wear belts.

Adams himself says he’s never sagged. "On a practical level, how do they even walk?" said the perplexed ex-cop. One Crown Height male explained: "It's more comfortable below the hip," 19-year-old Saquan Spaulding told the News. "It's a young thing."

Anti-sagging campaigns have been launched in other cities, including Dallas where the movement acquired a catchy theme song by the rapper Dooney “Da Priest” (listen here). The anti-sag rag also spawned an American Idol audition that later went viral. "I saw it," Adams said of the YouTube hit. "I thought it was funny. But when you look at it more closely, you see how big this matter is. When we sag like that, we're playing into it. We look like clowns."