NYC Nightclub Committee recommends safety changes

After all of the killings, gay bashings and drunken brawls associated with late night partying, the city council has invited some members of the New York Nightlife Association to assist them in making bars and nightclubs a safer place.  Together they have come up with some suggestions such as the following:

• Requiring clubs to have video cameras at entrances and exits
• Giving the police authority to close clubs where "repeat violent felony assaults have occured
• Creating monitors for "problem clubs"
• Investigating makers, sellers and users of fake IDs
• Establishing a city office for nightlife
• Creating a working group with the nightlife industry and police as members

The committee also suggested raising the age of admisson at nightclubs from 16 to 18 (what?! I don't know any clubs that allow 16 year olds.  Are we in Mississippi??).  After a bit of research, I found this is a state law so they can't change that anyway.

Lets hope it cuts down on the violence without killing all the fun.