That’s right. Windbreakers. Windbreakers that help keep kids off drugs.

What’s next? Cardigans that feed the poor?

The days when the Pittsburgh Housing Authority could spend hundreds of dollars on chocolate are over.

So said its leader in advance of a report due to Mayor Luke Ravenstahl today on authority spending on concerts, coffee, clothing and more. . . .The concert was part of the authority’s Clean Slate program to keep young people off drugs, which also included giveaways of 400 windbreakers and other items.

The $7,660 cost of the windbreakers was covered by federal money, because they were characterized as educational costs. The goal, said Mr. Meachem, was to give the authority’s good kids “an identity, just like the drug dealer who has on his shirt, ‘Snitches get stitches.’ “

Anti-drug windbreakers would probably give these kids an “identity” alright. It’d say to drug dealers: “Hey, look over here! I’m a potential customer!”