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August 19, 2008
To the Editor:
Last week, there was a Town police-blotter summary that noted four (as I remember) cell-phoning-while-driving tickets, and the response was particularly positive--a number of people who wanted to see more of the same. This week's Town blotter records zero cellphoning tickets. Is it because everybody has been scared into submission? I doubt it. My own totally unsupportable theory is that somebody got to the Town administration and demanded that this "harassment" be stopped, and it was, perhaps because the petitioner was an inveterate cell-phoner, I don't know.
Which brings up a bigger matter. Our Town and Village PDs do exactly what their administrative boards want them to, which is reasonable. If the Village PD is spending too much time (in the board's opinion) giving tickets to people doing 35 on Hudson Street, they're told to stop doing it and go nab illegal parkers down at the waterfront park. If the Town cops are spending their time radar-bagging commuters on the 9W flats past Kenridge Farm, they're told by the Town board to stop wasting everybody's time and insurance rates and go make a presence of themselves on the streets rather than hiding in the bushes.
Nothing wrong with that, and the police do what they're asked to, whether it's chasing skateboarders or, in the old Harmke days when he considered the Cornwall PD to be a crucial arm of the DEA, giving tickets for Driving While Black. But isn't it time that maybe the residents rather than just the boards voice their opinions as to what the police should be patrolling? And I don't mean the family that wants a traffic light and crosswalk right in front of its house or the guy who has a gripe with his neighbor parking three cars in front of his residence.
Me, I'd like to see a crackdown on all the drivers openly flouting the law against cell-phoning while driving. I'd like to see something done about the motorcyclists with straight pipes using 9W, 218 and the Village, particularly, as their playground. I'd like to see something done about people driving far too fast on residential streets. And I'd like to see the end to drunk drivers being let off with a warning. And yes, I'm the guy who drives an overpowered yellow track-car Porsche with race numbers on the doors, but I hope I do it considerately and carefully.
How about you? What are your gripes? If I'm one of them, let me know.
Stephan Wilkinson
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I'd like to see a strict enforcement with the speed LIMIT in the village. limit means the point, edge, or line beyond which something cannot or may not proceed. Right now drivers know that they can get away with driving over the limit but once its enforced it will be easier on the police force and safe for all residents
Steve, I believe there are cases in Michigan or some Midwest state in which a driver seriously injured and another `that caused death of a pedestrian while on a cell phone and that person is looking towards many years in prison. I believe I picked that up in the Chicago tribune.
j Buescher
posted by jcbike1 on 08/19/08 at 6:14 PM
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