Tim Wong wrote: she wrote that they replaced the specific form with the more general one because they were not able to keep up with all the reports they were getting. She said she was going to contact the people who deal with the complaints to see if they were caught up enough to be able to handle the specific report (license plate, etc., stuff) again.
I know the police can't be everywhere at once, and I would prefer that they spend their energy preventing/catching people that are shooting each other. But it seems crazy that the solution to too many "speeder hotline" complaints (and presumably too many violations) is to make it harder for citizens to report the violations. When (if?) the anti loitering law resulted in more calls to the police than the police could handle, was the response to make it harder to call the police? I know, I know, no matter how you feel about the anti loitering law, it's intentionis to cut down on drug deals and the resulting violent crime. But it's my opinion, shared by many on this list, I suspect, that blatantly failing to yield to pedestrians legally in a crosswalk (and possible simultaneously violating other laws created for the safety of road users, such as red light running), in other words, the exact situation Ann experienced and described, is as much an act of violence as pulling a gun on someone. both actions are extremely intimidating to the potential victim, and are likely to result in lethal injuries (after all, more than 40,000 people are killed every year by people driving cars, and thousands more are permanently injured). Why are more resources devoted to preventing increases in gun and drug crimes, and fewer resources devoted to reducing assault (or attempted assault) with an automobile? After all, it should be easier and cheaper to reduce auto violence (or to punish violators, at least) since people carrying guns (legally or not) are not required to wear big standardized steel plates bearing their gun's registration numbers on their chest and back. _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
