Ticketing cyclists in prospect park today

“It was literally three seconds,” Steve Galiczynski said of his short sidewalk ride to his parking spot on the Upper West Side, witnessed by a police officer. He said he had already spent a day cleaning up trash in Times Square. “This whole thing is nuts. It’s like I’m in a Russian novel — a crazy Russian novel."

Tell me you can't picture this twerp.

Anyhow, since we are sorta talking good use of the police for ticketing purposes, I will give my usual suggestion that a polica car traverse Coney Island Avenue 24 hours a day and ticket double-parked cars. There are plenty of random idiots that basically turn that quite busy stretch into a one-lane road, but the worst are the businesses (car washes, car services, car mechanics and oh so many more) that essentially use that inner lane as part of their "shop". It would be so easy, it would do some good, and it would pay for itself within a few months. In fact, the only reason I can think of that it isn't being done is that these businesses pay some other sort of...fee...for the privilige.

The dog has been caught.

this is not about racial profiling, it is about low hanging fruit.

prodigalson said:

The law is the law and must be respected by all. However, in my days in Brooklyn (and nowadays here in Minnesota) the complaint from certain people is that the law is enforced on a selective basis by the police. This selective enforcement often based on the race/ethnicity and gender of the alleged violator. As usual, the complaint being that if one is a Black or Latino male the cops will enforce it. But if the violator happens to be an attractive White female (esp if she is a blonde) the cops either look away or only give a verbal warning. Several independent news reports confirm these allegations but for some reason the local news media are hesitant to report it on the nightly news. I hope that is not the problem today in Prospect Park.