It's the summer 2009 fad! Park on the sidewalks!
You know how every summer or two there seems to be a new fad? This year the fad is to park in the sidewalk!First it was Code Enforcement, now it's the police. This was yesterday afternoon.
Two police offers were a few feet away, just kibitzing with someone, no emergency, no on duty stuff, just park and visit with the neighbors!
Is it any wonder why no one respects any of our local officials? They don't show any respect and they don't earn any for themselves.
posted by Tom Falco at 12:30 PM
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That, and my favorite: The cops who literally spend HOURS in hiding in the shade on Tiger Tail, just hoping to bust drivers by the Stop signs. Most times I take the bike through Tiger they are there, like this morning, I'll take a picture and send it to you.. enjoying the AC, radio music, probably, earning what 80K a year? tax-payer money, doing NOTHING, since the streets are half deserted at 7am or 9:30 am when I see them.. and everyone goes slow there, ZERO accidents per year I bet. Great Job by our LAZY and Money-Hungry "law enforcement" officials.. They just LOVE Tickets, free parking and the Shade. CI
We should make some citizen's tickets and start putting them on all of their cars.
It is possible the police are a different story than code enforcement.Perhaps the police need to be near their cars to respond immediately to a call. This is better than double parking, parking in a no parking zone, bus zone, meter, etc. As to what they were doing while there who knows.
Grape , I know you really don't want to confront them on the spot , nor constantly call the correct depts to follow up as to WHY? But perhaps could you just note in your blog 1.the car license plate or relevent ID for police/MPA etc,2 The time. 3 The location. Then people who write on this blog could first find out what is up for all of us to know the facts instead of just writing.Perhaps you could post all the agencies - local and city - etc - and personnel names and phone # that We need to contact. You could keep it as a permanent link on the side of your daily posting.
If the fuzz were smart they'd ticket the damn spandex brigade when they repeatedly blow through the stop signs all through the Grove. Considering the amount of carbon fiber present in one of the Lance wanabe pelotons, a $200 per incident ticket would be appropriate. With the number I see each week, you could slowly dig the city out of the fiscal mess it's currently in.
This is pretty bad.
A few officers are so arrogant and they give a bad impression to the rest of the department.
If by chance you are speaking about the police officers parked within the boundaries of Bay Heights: they are off-duty cops paid by the community of Bay Heights to patrol the neighborhood every day. In addition to driving around, they also ticket those who don't heed the stop signs and as a resident of Bay Heights, I'm glad we have them. Now, if we could only install a gate to keep the bikers out it would be great... I have NEVER seen them stop at a sign in my neighborhood, and I have the almost daily chore of maneuvering around them when I leave my house.
The best was today a police car on the sidewalk by Coco Walk's Parking exit. The Car was running and no officer in sight. Talk about waste!
-Louis
Tow em Out !!!
It would be really unwise to confront cops in such a situation. Really unwise. Best would be to take pictures (and from a distance at that) and email them to the mayor
As to spandex brigade... that was a really good idea and a sound financial advice from the poster above. At $200 a ticket, the city would easily make $100,000 a week in tickets.
Ticket the spandex brigade? I've never seen a police officer give a ticket to anyone for running a red light or a stop sign regardless of the type of vehicle, car or bicycle. Why target just cyclists? Why the hate?
A gate to keep cyclists out? So you have to maneuver around them. What if each of those were in a car instead of a bike? 25 bikes or 25 cars, which takes up more room and wastes more resources?
Stop bashing our police department.
wikipedia Bashing is a harsh, gratuitous, predjudicial attack on a person, group or subject.
harsh
Show where's the harsh treatment to OUR P.D. within these comments.
gratuitous
It ain't free, the officer deserves this criticism. He's breaking the LAW, OUR laws.
predjudicial This one's the least debatable. These complaints are the total opposite. We don't like what they're doing here, thus we ask for positive change.
I'm waiting....
I think its great they are parked there. They are in the Village. And, it lets people know they are here. If they park in metered spots, then there is less spots for our customers to park.
I heard there was a robbery at the mayfair this past week. Where were the police then? Maybe if they would have been parked there, it would have detered the robbery.
Considering every time I turn on the news there is a police officer shot or some wacko with a ak47 running around Miami, I dont mind emergency police vehicles on the sidewalk. I respect the police in Miami the # 3 ranked city for crime in the nation. God knows I wouldnt want their job.
This is just another example of how police officers can do whatever they want. What happened to the decent and honorable men who used to take pride in justly enforcing the law. Last night I saw a 20-something yr old cop speed down main street in the grove without his lights or sirens on (streets which are packed with residents and college students)and when a young man standing on the sidewalk yelled "woah buddy slow down", the cop sped up to pull a U-turn, stopped in front of the kid, threw the cigar he was smoking on top of his hood, and slapped the kid (who did not resist or talk back) into handcuffs.
It was disgusting.
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