Comments on: More double standards at Tucson Police Department

By: Coghauler

Coghauler — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:08:29 +0000

If cycling is perceived as a threat
to the status quo car culture, then
someone attacked for that behavior
could be considered a victim of a
hate crime?

By: Opus the Poet

Opus the Poet — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:58:21 +0000

Eric, this is a serious civil rights violation, 14th amendment but I don’t have my handy dandy pocket Constitution hand so don’t take my word on that. Anyway, excluding a class of citizen from equal protection under the law is a civil rights violation. File, or get ACLU to file on behalf of one of your clients, like the one that was hit with the baseball bat.

And I shouldn’t have to remind a lawyer about the US Constitution. I’m just a broken down computer geek and spoken word poet.

By: Mickey

Mickey — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:14:38 +0000

I saw a cop riding a motorcycle on the sidewalk going the wrong way the other day.

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By: Red Star

Red Star — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:15:29 +0000

Good work and activism by Tucson Bike Lawyer on the TPD front!

Does the same apparent double standard exist at Pima County Sheriff (the nearest-to TPD law enforcement reference point)? If it does, there is more work to be done. If it doesn’t, the case against TPD double standard strengthens…

Perhaps TPD will lamely defend by claiming cost-cutting measures…and point out that they didn’t merely send a letter to the motorist presumed to have killed Drake…

(there is a dirty little secret about state law and municipal ordinances: they are playgrounds for meeting budgets–budgets are more important than law and policy)

By: d

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:46:19 +0000

Erik, did they even try to give an explanation for this double standard?

By: Alison Jones

Alison Jones — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:26:21 +0000

Wow, TPD never ceases to amaze me! Who is setting policy there? Does this person even know the law?

By: Eric Olson

Eric Olson — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:16:19 +0000

I have been reading your posts off and on for a couple of years now. Living in Show Low, AZ traffic is minimal compared to Tucson, however, I often ride narrow 2 lane roads shared with big trucks hauling trailers. I wave thankfully to as many vehicles as give me wide berth, yet often am yelling at others who seem intent on seeing how close they can get to me. Many times I return home from my rides angry – a bit of a disappointment, but at least not dead, yet.

Your work is invaluable to all the rest of us. I don’t know of any others, except victims and their families, who wade into these tragedies. It almost seems that nobody else cares until they lose someone close.