This student makes some good suggestions, but when your university is basically a football team plus block after city block of bars, you have to expect violence. And all the drunken fights and gunshots the other night were after the University of South Carolina won its game.
Of course you can bear down with incredible numbers of police (the area already has security cameras everywhere), so that in the days following the mobs you arrest some people and try to scare other people — in anticipation of the next game, which is against Georgia. Yeah, you heard that right: Georgia. Get ready to roll.
The 7 p.m. kickoff for the Georgia game will add to his department’s challenge, [the police chief] said. Crowds always are larger and more rowdy after night games because they have been tailgating for hours before the games.
So on the Thursday after the post-victory violence, the police picked up a couple of University of South Carolina students just doing the sort of harmless hijinks you associate with college kids out at night:
The arrests, one for unlawful carrying of a pistol and resisting arrest, the other for hit-and-run and drug possession, follow a particularly violent weekend in Five Points in which two men were injured in mob assaults and a woman’s car was damaged by gunfire after the Gamecocks’ victory over the Missouri Tigers Sept. 22 at Williams-Brice Stadium.
Haha the old unlawful carrying of a pistol and hit and run! Kids today!