Decatur Metro

Apparently a three day nightclub crackdown evokes early 90’s shiny baggy pants to the DeKalb police . “Operation Hammer Time” this past weekend followed a failed attempt by the DeKalb County Commission to roll back closing hours throughout unincorporated DeKalb.

The AJC has a slightly odd feature that highlights the crackdown at Pure (Clairmont and Briarcliff), El Noa Noa (Tucker) and Decatur’s very own Pin Ups. From the first person accounts in the article, it seems like AJC’s Tim Eberly went along for the ride (Bad boys, bad boys…).

Yet the AJC reports that the rollback legislation and the Operation have nothing to do with one another.

“The operation began Friday, three days after county commissioners and their chief executive bickered over bar closing times.Commissioners voted to roll back last call in unincorporated areas by more than an hour on most nights. When DeKalb County Chief Executive Vernon Jones vetoed the measure, some commissioners accused his administration of failing to enforce laws that keep watering holes in line.

DeKalb County police this weekend said Hammer Time was not a direct response to the accusations. But spokeswoman Mekka Parish said there had been “misinformation” that police there did not enforce the law.

So a catchy, although lame, operation name plus a call ahead to the AJC, isn’t a media response to the “embarrassment” (to quote one DeKalb commissioner) revolving around rolling back serving hours in the county? Sure it isn’t. And M.C. Hammer isn’t a washed up has-been.