I suspect that a lot of the cases of drunken "on the field" idiots at ball parks that get handed over to police don't actually end up getting charged with anything. But the process of getting frogmarched out of the stands by security, and handed over to the cops for potential processing might get something through their idiot heads. Or it doesn't: but it removes them immediately from a situation and lets everyone around them know that (a) the event organizers take their safety policies seriously, and (b) what they're doing is not to be done.
I also rather suspect that any kind of charge that would stick in the con case would have less to do with unwelcome groping, and more to do with "public mischief", "disorderly behaviour", or the like, and would get brought on behalf of the venue or the con organization and maybe not by the woman or women who reported the harassment (although they might be asked to testify).
But I'm no lawyer and would also like to live in a world where the law actually serves to protect people against idiocy and harmful behaviour...
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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2012-07-31 11:56 pm
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I also rather suspect that any kind of charge that would stick in the con case would have less to do with unwelcome groping, and more to do with "public mischief", "disorderly behaviour", or the like, and would get brought on behalf of the venue or the con organization and maybe not by the woman or women who reported the harassment (although they might be asked to testify).
But I'm no lawyer and would also like to live in a world where the law actually serves to protect people against idiocy and harmful behaviour...