Why is it we have this double standard between what our Police Department does and the rules the rest of us need to comply with? It's the little stuff that gets to be irritating.
Take for instance parking. The north side of Grant Street where I live is posted "No Parking - Anytime". Presumably that's because parking on that side of the street creates an unsafe situation, the street is to narrow for parking on both sides. Across the street is The Lotus, a resturant. There is a parking lot right by their front door. The Minneapolis cops like to eat there. Saturday night at a bit after 8 PM, three squad cars market "Traffic", squad #997 and 2 others were parked right under the no parking sides as their drivers were sitting inside the resturant eating. Nobody else can get by with that in the city of tags and tows. These guys weren't stopping by to handle some kind of emergency, even urgent, situation. They were eating dinner. Isn't it time we expect our city's law enforcement officers to live by the same rules as everyone else? Perhaps that's an attitude we should expect from the person who is selected to be our new Police Chief. Terrell Brown Loring Park terrell at terrellbrown dot org http://home.earthlink.net/~terrelljbrown __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
