Toronto cops are parking illegally everywhere with impunity so they can get coffee
Cops seem to be parking wherever the heck they want in Toronto these days, especially illegal parking spaces in close proximity to purveyors of cof...
Same as it ever was, they don't give a crap. Back in university, as a lighthearted prank, I handwrote a parking ticket and gave it to a cop once.
The optics look really bad.
Rules for thee, not for me.
To be fair, police don't really make it a habit of enforcing any laws, and if they do accomplish something by mistake they love catch and release
Hah. Welcome to the city. One night I was driving down a three lane one way street in downtown SF, parking lanes on both sides, and the cops were triple parked into the road with no lights on or anything, like a wall of cars taking up the parking lane and 2/3 traffic lanes, and with a parked car across the street, 4/5 of all possible lanes were blocked. Not even hazard lights.
It's inexcusable that they flagrantly violate not just the law but also the safety that the laws are ostensibly created to ensure.
I once was essentially cut in line to pick up some food because a cop parked illegally in a place that said "No parking" and so he was able to get into the building faster than I could. Fuckers. ACAB.
I mean they murder and assault innocent civilians and face next to zero accountability for that, so I wouldn’t expect them to walk park appropriately and actually walk to get their doughnuts.
Gotta get suited up and start crashing into the cop cars in bike lanes. Like Casey Neistat, but add some ceramic hard point to your helmet or shoulder pads so you can shatter a window when you collide.
That website is a tragic mess of stale blog posts and not-relevant news articles and fails to mention any details about successful implementations nor does it clarify just how it does claim to be successful. This just reeks of selling consumer information to advertisers.
https://www.bikelaneuprising.com/database-feed -- broken
https://www.bikelaneuprising.com/press-archive -- not updated in ~3 years...
smells fishy.
Non emergency needs are not an excuse for illegal behavior.
If it’s that critical that they remain close to their vehicle then they should plan better. I.e. a drive through, coffee shop with parking, thermos full of coffee, have two officers per vehicle and one stays with the car, etc.
