Y’know, this is one of those things that we/you have a choice as to whether or not we will engage in the activity or not.
And we either decide yea or nay.
And just speaking for myself, this is one of those things that I find it pretty easy to imagine NPG No Possible Gain and would tend not to do it. But that’s just me.
Poking the popos is usually not recommended. They have a Yuge book of rules to catch you up whenever they want.
Guy has too much time on his hands.
Ping
Cops park illegally, wrong, in weird places and manners because they need to be able to get to their car rapido of an emergency happens.
Needing your rifle right now and its parked 2 blocks away so the patrol car wouldn’t be nosed 4 feet into a red zone is not a good option.
Parking in the grocery store lot and taking 2 spots is done so when the radio crackles and you have to race to your car, frandma has not parked 6.5 inches from your driver’s door meaning you cannot get in the driver’s seat even from the passenger side because they have a car radio, in car camera system, a rifle and shotgun rack, and a computer all in the center console area.
This does not excuse parking in a grocery store handicapped spot when other spots or the fire lane is available.
But parking in weird ways or in manners that violate parking laws are typically for a good reason that is not recognizable to the non-cop.
“But Carr is far from a bomb-throwing, anti-cop anarchist.”
Maybe not,but he definitely needs a life.
Good lord !
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it’s hard to respect an officer of the law when they break the law.
It just goes to show that 99% of parking laws are about revenue generation, not public safety.
If the cops don't get a ticket for illegal parking, then neither should anyone else. Otherwise, it's hypocritical, and creates an double standard.
And, even worse, many police do go speeding down the highway without their lights on, thereby creating a clear threat to public safety. I see them blow through stop signs 20 feet from my house all the time. It's just flat out wrong.
Police officers aren't above the law; they're not an elite class. I'm very supportive of this soldier's efforts to achieve consistency and accountability...
He is doing a public service, and I wish him well.
Police need to follow the rules. When they blantantly violate small rules, people assume that they will violate any rule or law that is incovenient to them.
They will assume that police cannot be trusted to uphold the rule of law.
It has horrible consequences for society.
Cops don’t consider their patrol cars illegally parked. Many years ago, while at the counter of a cafe with police, I questioned their parking at a meter for lunch and not depositing coins. I did not address the policemen directly but was overheard talking to a companion. Here was their unsolicited answer: “That’s the privilege of driving a black and white car.”
People can be so narrow-focused. The bigger picture is, cops carry guns. Big guns. That they don’t take into coffee shops or anywhere unless they need them. But they are there all the same, just in case. There are also thousands of dollars of taxes-purchased computer and radio stuff inside in plain sight. So, if they left their car in a parking garage while they served a non-emergency citizen, how is that safer (or more cost effective) for the public?
(2004-2008 figures:’’ ‘’ ‘’ Violent ‘’ Property
Total in parking lots or garages 401,920 7.3% 2,018,180 11.2%
Commercial parking lot/garage 110,620 2.0 413,050 2.3
Noncommercial parking lot/garage 213,540 3.9 864,190 4.8
Apartment/townhouse parking lot/garage 77,760 1.4 740,950 4.1
https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=44
No this can really tick you off depending on the situation. I used to live right behind a police station. Everyday right before the police were off duty, they would speed, blow through red lights and sit in their own parking lots talking to each other over their cars loud speakers. They wanted to be the first into the station after the shift ended. So just before 7a, 3pm, and 11pm it happened. Can you imagine every day at 11 pm having 4 cop cars talking to each other over their bullhorns. You couldn’t sleep and sometimes it would go on for half an hour. They also ran red lights. Their lights would go on, they would cross the intersection then they would turn them off. They would speed down to the next intersection and do it again until they got to the station.
Really it got quite dangerous and annoying. One day I called the cops on the cops about the noise. It was funny. 30 seconds after I hung up. A sergeant went out to the parking lot and shouted, “Hey you F—ckheads, shut up, the neighbors are complaining.” They did shut up and he went back inside.
Dirty cops should be shot.
They are the scum of the earth.
I doubt there is a city in this country that does not allow police cars to park illegally on official duty. It's just a matter of effective use of taxpayer money to allow them to park illegally rather than the expense of cops looking for or paying for parking.
Both the author and the busybody parking crusader are obviously blinded by an anti-cop bias.
I wonder how many yearly physical fitness tests that tub of goo has gotten out of with his rank & pull? These douchebag anti-coppers don’t sit on their high horses without some sort of double standard ready to smack them in their personal lives. If that pic is of the “active duty major” it looks like standards have dropped below bottom of the barrel for officers in the army. He looks like “Chester the molester” and I would need to see his govt issued military id to believe he’s a major in any branch.
The Kings men are above the law it appears. They serve us, and should obey our laws.
Miami is pretty much a Yankee city and like other Yankee cities, it is highly corrupt and run by, of course, Democrats. The saving grace is that Miami itself is a very small city. North Miami Beach is its own city. They are all corrupt and basically Yankee cities full of New York expatriates and refugees who try mightily to convert the whole state into Massachusetts or Brooklyn.
A Major, who loves the childlike life on a military base. This is the kind of guy who you don’t want in your neighborhood association.
Who knows what has set him off, but in this case, cop cars, for all sorts of reasons, are often allowed to park in places nobody else can.
And that angry little major needs to work on that gut.
