Rochester Police To Undergo Training After Retaliatory Incidents

[Bob Hubbard]

I swear I posted on the original case, but can't find the thread.
edit - Found it.
http://www.martialtalk.com/forum/sh...zen-tickets-cop-for-illegal-parking-cop-fined.

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[h=2]Rochester Police To Undergo Training After Retaliatory Incidents[/h]

The Rochester Police Chief acknowledged that his officers acted in a retaliatory fashion by issuing petty tickets to citizens supporting Emily Good, the woman who was arrested in May for videotaping a traffic stop from her front yard. Actually, he didn’t quite the use the word retaliatory. He called it “targeted enforcement activity,” which is cop talk for retaliatory.

 

[Darksoul]

-I have spoken with friends back home in Rochester about this situation. Most agree that Emily Good is pretty much an attention whore and authority is a favorite target of hers. However, these friends also believe in keeping the good guys honest, and the decision by RPD to engage in retaliatory practice is sad and annyoing. I know a few cops back there and they're good guys. A difficult job with a sometimes difficult public to serve.

 

[jks9199]

One note -- "targeted enforcement activity" is not automatically retaliation or persecution of a selected group. Just like profiling -- it's a tool that can be misused. Targeted enforcement activity can be things like strict enforcement of speed limits around a school at the start of a school year, or heavy enforcement and patrol around an open air drug market.

I'm not justifying the actions here -- but I won't let a good tool get thrown out with the trash, either.

 

[Archangel M]

If they were ticketing people parked in no parking zones or for some other reasonable offense I would say "so what"? But pulling out rulers to ticket people parked more than 12" from the curb is just plain silly. Im thinking that this was a couple of coppers doing "their own thing" vs some supervisory mandate or department order.

 

[Sukerkin]

Who parks that far away from the curb anyway! I know you have wide roads in America but still ...