Bars test mix of crowd-control fixes

As many as 5,000 people pour out of downtown Fort Collins bars at 2 a.m. on busy Friday and Saturday nights. Most behave just fine, but the small percentage who get into fights, urinate in public and damage public property have police and downtown bars looking for new solutions.

So far two initiatives are in the works. This month, several downtown bars will experiment with an ID scanning program designed to flag problem drinkers. Sometime soon – possibly this year — the eight police officers paroling downtown will begin to once again wear video equipment to record interactions with the…