Toronto cops are parking illegally everywhere with impunity so they can get coffee
Toronto cops are parking illegally everywhere with impunity so they can get coffee
Cops seem to be parking wherever the heck they want in Toronto these days, especially illegal parking spaces in close proximity to purveyors of cof...
Same as it ever was, they don't give a crap. Back in university, as a lighthearted prank, I handwrote a parking ticket and gave it to a cop once.
The optics look really bad.
Rules for thee, not for me.
To be fair, police don't really make it a habit of enforcing any laws, and if they do accomplish something by mistake they love catch and release
Hah. Welcome to the city. One night I was driving down a three lane one way street in downtown SF, parking lanes on both sides, and the cops were triple parked into the road with no lights on or anything, like a wall of cars taking up the parking lane and 2/3 traffic lanes, and with a parked car across the street, 4/5 of all possible lanes were blocked. Not even hazard lights.
It's inexcusable that they flagrantly violate not just the law but also the safety that the laws are ostensibly created to ensure.
I once was essentially cut in line to pick up some food because a cop parked illegally in a place that said "No parking" and so he was able to get into the building faster than I could. Fuckers. ACAB.
Gotta get suited up and start crashing into the cop cars in bike lanes. Like Casey Neistat, but add some ceramic hard point to your helmet or shoulder pads so you can shatter a window when you collide.
I mean they murder and assault innocent civilians and face next to zero accountability for that, so I wouldn’t expect them to walk park appropriately and actually walk to get their doughnuts.
That website is a tragic mess of stale blog posts and not-relevant news articles and fails to mention any details about successful implementations nor does it clarify just how it does claim to be successful. This just reeks of selling consumer information to advertisers.
https://www.bikelaneuprising.com/database-feed -- broken
https://www.bikelaneuprising.com/press-archive -- not updated in ~3 years...
smells fishy.
Devil’s advocate here, and not boot licking… please just hear me out…
if we are to assume that officers are good faith Emergency Response personnel, right? Then parking in the fucking boonies, or around the block means that it takes longer for them to get back to their vehicle and respond to an emergency situation. Also, having the police car visible protects it from vandalism (protecting tax payer money), to include theft of additional weaponry (shotguns, ARs, less lethal shotguns, etc) and helps deter crime for other local establishments around the parked cop car. Then there are also the K9 vehicles, which have additional need to be close and observable. The police officer is human and has needs, so they’re going to the coffee shop anyway.
But, sure. I hate when ANYONE parks in the bike lane, we have one at our local park that’s always full of concert or event staff vehicles, and that shit pisses me off. I have to go into oncoming traffic to get around these bozos, and our lane is separated by those dumb plastic bollards.
Non emergency needs are not an excuse for illegal behavior.
If it’s that critical that they remain close to their vehicle then they should plan better. I.e. a drive through, coffee shop with parking, thermos full of coffee, have two officers per vehicle and one stays with the car, etc.
Some states explicitly blanket exempt emergency response vehicles from laws, to include parking with or without flashers or in or not in an emergency capacity at that time. Whether the officer is getting themselves some coffee, they are still working in the capacity of a police officer, they don’t turn off being a cop for getting coffee. They’re on the job and actively working, by their mere presence they’re deterring crime and subject to civilian encounters. They may also have to respond to an emergency situation, there at the coffee shop or across town requiring them to immediately get to their VIC and go, and seconds could matter. Didn’t for Uvalde… but, hey…
Two officers per VIC isn’t always possible in every jurisdiction. Most I’ve seen have been 1 per, in my area.
Edit: and you might say “this guy’s bootlicking! We don’t do that here in this sub! Burn the witch!” And I know! But, what I’m saying is… this is low hanging fruit kind of ‘police problem’ stuff. There are bigger fish to fry, plus there are justifiable reasons for doing this. Not that cops are just being lazy here…