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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Yes, it's a political argument, but how does changing the time lessen the chance for violence? The logical conclusion of that would be to eliminate alcohol sales altogether to get rid of violence.
OTOH, someone could argue that having hard cutoff times could actually be increasing the chance of violence by pushing a bunch of people with alcohol in their system into the streets at exactly the same time every night.
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The reason is obvious, is it not? The large majority of moderate drinkers in America have already gone home by themselves by 2am. Most bars will close earlier on their own for that reason alone. They don’t really need the “last call”.
So the later it gets, the more a bar crowd consists of “bad drunks”. The cutoff simply sends them home instead of giving them another couple hours to cause trouble in public. Unfortunately, the functional patrons have to go with them, but there’s not enough of them to put up a political fight.
Places with more students or lots of security get more leeway, because the economic pros outweigh the public order cons, but it’s not particularly common outside of limited areas.
Since bar violence usually decreases overall when a cutoff is implemented, there’s not much evidence for the “people in the streets at the same time” theory. Whereas there are lots of cases of fights starting in operating bars that spill out into the street.