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



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