Terrell Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
<Excellent> chicken with vegetables and fried rice. :-D > > 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. Eating <is> urgent. :-) Sounds like a job for CUAPB...or the Trial Board. Would that solve your problem? Eating While on Duty? > > 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 If the cops were parking there with their private vehicles, then you'd have a point - but they were on the job. That's no reason to bust their chops. To rephrase Mr. Brown: Isn't it time we expect a citizen of this city to give cops some slack? Perhaps that's the attitude we need from the next person who posts to this list. N.I. Krasnov Loring Park 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
