not sure that this does their cause much good really. Having said that i remember a policeman saying much the same thing to me and some friends, about our clothing, which wasn't that bad, we asked for help after being followed by some yobbos late at night. It was quite scary i must admit, and the policemans attitude was poor.
IMO society needs to go back to the 1950's to be able to stop all the rubbish that's got out of hand now. It can't be done and people are far too entrenched in rights now so it's a case of carrying on to worse times as there's no stopping "progress" (haha) in my opinion.