David Brauer wrote: "I happened to notice the other night that several parking spots across the street from the police sub-station by 5th & Hennepin had been commandeered from Thursday night to Sunday morning - no doubt for the extra patrols now needed to police the Warehouse District. I sure am glad we have a higher-spending class of miscreant in our downtown these days." FYI, that is not a substation. That is a precinct, the Downtown Command, covering the area bounded by I-94, Plymouth Ave., and the River. It's not a permanent location for the precinct (we're in the converted former Chamber of Commerce building, not in City Hall), so we have no "built-in" parking. The city is shelling out significant $ to park non-patrolling squads and personnel vehicles in the DAP ramp at 4th & Nicollet. With roughly the same number of officers as the 2nd Precinct (entire Nordeast), it will be none too soon that the Downtown Command gets a new building, with its own parking so the not-so-high-spending classes can park on 5th Street again after the meters expire. CPS Luther Krueger 673-2923 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Minneapolis Police Department, Downtown Command SAFE 29 5th St. So., Minneapolis MN 55402 The Downtown Command never sleeps. (Lyndale, 8th Ward--and Sack got it 180 degrees wrong in this morning's Strib)
