The Police Inaction!

So I’m at the Crunch Gym on Flatbush and I’m doing my cardio workout upstairs looking down on Flatbush Ave and I notice there are about four double-parked cars. So I’m wondering if the police will come by and give a ticket while I’m exercising and sure enough, emerging from Hawaii Chinese are two Police officers carrying their lunch. They look both ways and cross the street to their cruiser which is parked in the bus stop near American Apparel doing absolutely nothing about the double-parked cars and I think, “Give them a break, it’s their lunch hour and they have hot food.”

So I finish up my cardio and move on. At times I glance out the window and notice the continued flow of double-parked cars on Flatbush Ave without a Police officer to be seen. After a while I’m done at the gym and walk out onto the street and make a phone call. At this time the traffic is bad and there are about ten double-parked cars. I walk up to the corner of Sterling Place and there I see two Police officers on foot. They are pointing in the direction of all the double-parked cars and they cross the street but instead of ticketing any cars they walk into Parkside Diner.

So now I’m like WTF?

So I call 311 and make a non-emergency illegal parking complaint. At this time there are 10 – 12 double-parked cars. I then head into Key Food for some pre-Super Bowl shopping which takes my mind off the parking situation. After ten minutes and checking out, I walk outside expecting nothing to have happened. But what do I see? A Police cruiser driving by! Yeah! I think, 311 does work! But then I notice they are not ticketing anyone, instead the Police are choosing not to enforce one violation and let mayhem ensue. I notice the passenger side window is rolled down and the officer is nonchalantly observing the chaos so I walk up to a double-parked car with no one in it, point to it and yell at the officer, “Hey! Do you know that double-parking is illegal in New York City?” He looks at me, obviously thinking how he would just love to hope out of his car and arrest me for telling him how to do his job. “Yeah I know,” he replies, probably daydreaming of his lunch.

I’m sorry, but I don’t want a police state, but I do want the laws of New York City enforced, especially when there is a budget shortfall and the city is doing everything it can to discourage people from using cars!

This is exactly why the Police, IMO, are looked down upon, why they are known as “Pigs.” They do not enforce the law except when they feel like it! Imagine if everyone was able to do their job only when they wanted to?