Police Priorities

It was a great Padres victory at the stadium, but my joy was short-lived when I returned to my car to find a ticket on my windshield. How in the world, I wondered, could I get a ticket in the parking lot?

Well, apparently someone stole my 1993 sticker off my license plate, but that didn’t make me as angry as realizing that we have so many police officers with nothing to do in this city, that they have time to walk or drive around the stadium parking lot during baseball games just looking for expired stickers.

Next time our police chief goes before City Council asking for more money and more officers, ask him why it takes two men in Penasquitos to handle a radar speed trap? Why officers ticket cars at a park where people park on the grass because there are no parking places? Why they ticket cars along a dirt road (Black Mountain) that the city doesn’t maintain and where there are no signs indicating no parking? And why we can afford to have officers patrolling the stadium just looking for expired plates?

DAVE PIERCE, San Diego