Showing posts with label law enforcement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label law enforcement. Show all posts
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Eliminate jaywalking laws: "The core problem lies with street design, not human behavior."

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Yes, we've been here before.      Walking is not a crime: Dunman and others on the scourges of jaywalking in auto-erotic America. Like t...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Face the Face.

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There's a reason for #DontBeAMaskHole . I've said all along, and will now repeat, that it's the ultimate in despicable g...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Routine traffic stops? "Let's stop using the terrible design of our cities as a random pretext and, instead, be proactive about fixing the design."

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I'm having trouble finding the extract from this essay that best conveys the central point, so I've chosen two. Routine Traffi...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

Read it, Irv: "Design Is Better Than Enforcement To Make Cities Safer For Everyone."

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I apologize for doing this, but since the article is very short and directly addresses current social media yammering over the Upper Spri...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Bored of works? Try this: "St. Paul launches effort to change the city's driving culture — by enforcing crosswalk laws."

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This sentence bears repeating, again and again, until Jeff Gahan, Warren Nash and the rest of the politicians wearing blinders with pride...
Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Photo essay: Which one's a heavy truck, Warren?

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Four years later, and City Hall still can't explain this sign. Feeling good about New Albany's "plan...
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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Walking is not a crime: Dunman and others on the scourges of jaywalking in auto-erotic America.

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Photo credit: Vox (below). I walk. I walk a lot. There is me, and there are hundreds of vehicles. Conscious of the disparity betwe...
Monday, August 03, 2015

Gahan: Body cameras utterly redundant in perfect human societies like New Albany's.

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There are times when I feel a fleeting twinge of sympathy for Mayor Jeff Gahan's handlers, as when he somehow squirms out of their leade...
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Tuesday, February 03, 2015

Amanda Beam's column about human trafficking and the sex trade, and Kevin Zurschmiede's spa denial.

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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Earth to Warren & the Boardettes: Speeding is a DESIGN issue, not an ENFORCEMENT issue.

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But the good news is that Mr. Nash is providing valuable, if inadvertent, tutelage in other areas of critical detective work. Such a ...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

ReStartled: Without so much as a street sweeper in sight.

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Could it be true? A dump truck, actually pulled over by a policeman? I just hope the cop wasn't asking the drive for a job applicatio...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Paging Mr. Speck -- say, old man, while you're at it, can you write some street use guidelines for monster trucks, too? We seem to have misplaced ours.

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Thanks to the miracle of the camera shutter, this monster truck is NOT speeding down Market Street. Chief Todd Bailey did the research ...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Intellectual flabbiness and political cowardice best explain the city's far-off gaze as monster trucks speed through the streets.

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I'll hazard a guess that the same question asked of INDOT would yield a similar answer: "It ain't the state, baby, it's ...
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Kentucky wishes not to unduly trouble inattentive drivers.

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The vigil continues. Will the Floyd County Democratic Party's convention at Applebee's with Miller Lite and Wal-Mart gift cards addr...
Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Todd Bailey: NAPD traffic enforcement officers to monitor Spring Street.

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Enforcement alone isn't going to turn any tides. Streets designed to be traveled at high rates of speed for maximum pass-through ef...
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Monday, May 12, 2014

Speeding as it is facilitated by the city's street design.

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New Albany's one-way streets are built to encourage lawlessness, to which the city responds by utterly flaccid enforcement, issuing as m...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

New Albany's streets: Screwed by design. Why?

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The YMCA is on the south side of Main Street, with parking on the building's west side. Feast BBQ and The Exchange (sorry, but the Ho...
Monday, March 03, 2014

The reporter vents, and he has a fine point.

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He's spot on, don't you think?
Saturday, February 08, 2014

Parking: No code or ordinances necessary for failure to enforce any of them.

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Yesterday there was an instructive conversation about parking, during which several comments made reference to sidewalks and driveways. N...
Friday, February 07, 2014

No parking meters necessary for sidewalk parking.

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I'm confused about something, although this isn't uncommon; often I pause from walking to remove my headgear, scratch my head and...
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