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Why did we use taxpayer money for a skatepark if we are just going to continue to allow groups of skateboarders to destroy the memorial monuments in Washington park? They are posted no skateboarding. Let's see some enforcement when police are patrolling through the area. It would take 2 minutes. Just as taxpayer money was used for the skatepark, taxpayer money is also used for the ongoing repairs due to this unnecessary damage not to mention the disrespect for what the Soldiers and Sailors monument itself represents.
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Gladys Kravitz (Registered User)
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DerekS (Registered User)
APD dispatch is hit or miss, depending on what’s burning down in the city. I called last week for a burglary in motion and couldn’t get officers to come due to bandwidth issues.
APD will not come for a non-violent / or non-drug-related offense in the park.
Shouldn’t this be assigned to the NEU officers running Beat 4 versus giving residents a generic response?
JFN (Registered User)
I haven’t called this in to APD in more than a year because the last few times I talked to officers about it they claimed to not know the law because the common council had changed it and they didn’t know anymore if it was illegal to skate on monuments. When I cited the law, they said because there was no stated penalty or citation they could give, they couldn’t do anything. I don’t think this is entirely true. I think it’s the result of the more hands-off approach they’re taking, at least to the sixth ward and its environs. I know they’re short staffed. But it’s also just a symptom of a different policing culture. Many officers are resentful of the defund the police movement and their take is “You don’t like how we do things? Then you’re getting no help from us.” I’m not guessing this is true. It IS true. So there’s a slew of factors at work here.
In the scope of things, skaters on the monument and other pieces of public decorative hard scape seems like a small issue. But for anyone who’s paying attention and isn’t an outright cynic, they know it’s destructive, dangerous, annoying, and allowing it means feeding toxic individualism of the few at expense of the rest of us. If the City enforced this small, sensible measure it’d go a long way toward building confidence in the place.
JustJen (Registered User)