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LiberalArkie

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9. Balaclava proved so effective in cold weather to preventing the public from identifying the police that it went all year

Reply to Mike Nelson (Reply #4)

Sun May 11, 2025, 09:58 AM

May 11

Balaclavas are in certain contexts associated with criminality as gang members have used them to conceal their identity. In 2004, police in Prestwich, England, began demanding that people on the street remove their balaclavas, describing the garment as "extremely threatening". In 2008, police in Kent confiscated a copy of the War on Terror board game partly because of the inclusion of a balaclava, stating that it "could be used to conceal someone's identity or could be used in the course of a criminal act."

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