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Then again JL why ONLY this street? This is as many have said time and time again is not a question of it being illegal it's a question of ONLY these people being punished for it.

Is ignoring something that many people do and just enforcing it on people that piss you off really the kind of cop you are or are you fair and cite everyone?

While I generally agree that illegal parking is illegal parking.. Thats not much of an argument. However when enforcement appears to be designed to hassle those standing up to police it becomes a problem. Selective enforcement against those opposing them give the appearance that "you should just do as you are told".

You must realized this JL, to most people this looks like intimidation in response to people standing up against a truly bone headed action by police. Political or not, this is the stuff that turns people against the police and achieves NOTHING positive. They'd already screwed the pooch on the Good woman, they only dug themselves a deeper hole by stepping up enforcement against those in opposition to them.

Now using your example of the dealer lady, if you made it a point to ticket/arrest her for anything that might be interpreted as illegal then yeah, you would probably have been acting improperly and retaliatory. If you ran across her and she was breaking the law then probably not.

If they go with the mindset to hassle these people then they were in the wrong. That isn't in your job description.

"My sarge was there and luckily he was not afraid of standing up to the brass."

So he didn't call you and your new partner into his office? Scream at you that he just got off the phone with the Mayor? Comment about the missing chunk out of his ass and pull you off the case? Threaten you with suspension if you go anywhere near that corner again? And he should take the damages caused by your crazy car chase out of your pay???

Crazy.

I present Johnny Troll's little female drug dealer.

This is bullshit. You're just trying to obfuscate the real issue here: A person, within their rights ( and possibly even doing a DUTY ) took video of a cop who couldn't take the heat. The rest of the cop mob retaliated in a mean and petty fashion, as cops do - en masse- and got caught.
Training won't work, because the root is poisoned. Pull the tree out and start over.
Training? " Here's a train-get the fuck on it".
Total transparency is how it should work. If you don't like being videoed, get another job, cause you work for us, and we have the right to record what you do. End of story.

JL, The police work 'for the people'. Aquiessing to public demands is part of the job description. The police do not function above, apart, or separate from the people they serve, or for that matter, the law.

"Good thing I didn't have the chain of command in Rochester huh?"

No, but it is a good thing that this story is not about you.

Bait and switch, change the focus from the blatant and despicable illegal arrest of Emily Good, and then pretend that the men who were issuing the tickets were not doing so in retaliation. The adults in the room know exactly what happened and the adults in the room including the brass have taken a ethical and moral stance.
The officer might have been sticking to the letter of the law,But people Ethical and decent people know that the law is MORE then that. The Police are supposed to be a part of a community,working with the people who employ them. NOT acting like stooges.

When you defend the indefensible, you reveal something about yourself.

The only training these clown suits should get is on the french fryer at Burger King.

Only first, everyone who got a ticket should get a free opportunity to drive-stun the ex-officers' gonads.

Same Troll who thinks banging a chick on the hood of a cruiser in public is not against the law.

Have to give him credit though. His stories are getting better. Now he has a team that does drug busts and writes one parking ticket at a time.