a bit more
safe while watching it in case of a stray bullet or three.
Allen Graetz
Lowry Hill
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I disagree with having a separate park police force. I see it as being akin
to a small town of 500 people maintaining it's
Aaron Klemz asked: can someone explain what the benefit is
to having an independent Park Police?
I think it is a similar question to why don't we just have State Police. All
Minnesota Police could all have the same uniforms, all drive the same cars
and all have the same
I have thought about your post and this whole picture bothers me. I think it is
way
past time to call a meeting of your Crime and Safety group and invite Inspector
Lucy,
Captain Brad Johnson of the Park Police, your Sector Lt. and you Safe Team. Yes
the documentation is a pain in the lower area
I agree- one set of police for all. Here in Whittier if you need the police
in a park, and call 911, sometimes you get no response and/or can be told to
call the Park Police.
And if you call and request the park police...look out. What you get you ,may
not want. Park staff mad at you.
Our Park
Richard Anderson wrote:
Yes! It's time to have one police department if for no other reason than
to
save money!
I agree that we need to have one police department but I disagree that the
reason is to save money. The reason that we need to combine the two police
departments is that the Park
Yes! It's time to have one police department if for no other reason than to
save money!
Last Summer the beat officer assigned to the entire Loring Park
neighborhood spent the bulk of his time dealing with issues in the park
anyway! This year we said no. Let the Park Police do their job and free
Today while my son and three friends were fishing at Lake Harriet, two
men in a car stopped nearby and took pictures of the boys. The boys
think the man taking the pics was the sex offender reported to be in
Loring Park in June and wanted on a Hennepin County warrant.
When the boys were making
We live across the street from the Matthews Park basketball courts. They
are very busy. They are definately well used. Numerous times during the
year there are problems related to them. Usually nothing life threatening
but more on the nusence catagory (e.g. very loud music). The city police
Mr. Zimmerman argues that it would not be possible combine the Park Police
and City Police because teams need to be formed to address park events. The
City police are assigned to special events all the time (Aquatennial, Aids
Walk, etc). If the current police structure can handle this working
--- Carol Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mr. Zimmerman argues that it would not be possible
combine the Park Police
and City Police because teams need to be formed to
address park events. The
City police are assigned to special events all the
time (Aquatennial, Aids
Walk, etc). If the
Before I comment, I'll say that I wholeheartedlly agree that the park police
should be maintianed as a seperate police force, if for no other reason,
simply for the sake of having at least one police force that is accountable
to someone. That being said, I and many other people have exprienced
I am going to offer a much more serious response to David's post, even if Carol Becker
offered a much more clever one.
Even if Carol hadn't brought forth her point that finding David is unlikely, it must
be stated that David's comments and stereotyping of ALL police officers is unfair. I
am
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