Actually I have bartended in three downtown Minneapolis bars and we were never to serve free alcohol to officers on or off duty. We were encouraged to give them all of the fruit juice of soda that they wanted because the owners thought having an officer around wouldn't hurt.
~Kate Carey Phillips ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caffeinate The World" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 10:19 PM Subject: Re: [Mpls] Liquor License Enforcement Procedures > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't know if this topic has come up before. I am > > looking for advice or information about Mpls. police > > liquor license enforcement. > > > > My friend owns a small ethnic restaurant in S. Mpls. > > Their revenue is predominately from food, but they offer > > service of beer, wine and liquor, and have a small bar > > that seats 8. > > [...] > > Not checking IDs is pretty serious I think. But mistakes do happen. > However, three times? hmm... come on. I'd be interested to know how > many times an establishment gets a decoy, the rate at which decoys are > deployed, the ethnicity and location of the enstablishment. A geocode > pattern of all that data would be quite interesting. > > I'm not sure if it's well known or not, but it's understood that if a > off duty police officer flashes his/her badge at a club in Minneapolis, > he gets all the free drinks he/she wants. I'm told that it's a perk of > being an officer (even if off duty). One has to wonder what if that off > duty officer doesn't get that free drink... more decoys? > > Thomas T. Thai > S. Mpls > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more > http://games.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________ > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: > http://e-democracy.org/mpls > _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
