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Re: THREATENED BY UNDERCOVER NYPD AT STILLWELL AVE. (713469)

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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue May 25 20:08:16 2004, in response to THREATENED BY UNDERCOVER NYPD AT STILLWELL AVE.,
posted by High St / Brooklyn Bridge on Mon May 24 22:50:47 2004.

The problem is not the police officer. He is just following orders. Besides, you wouldn't get anywhere by challenging him. All he has to say is that you were impeding the flow of traffic even if you weren't and you would lose, be inconvenienced, fined or worse. He would just deny his statement about the law. Who says police always tell the truth? The judge will always take the policeman's word unless you have a tape recording, and then it probably wouldn't be allowed as evidence.

The problem is to find out who made the decision to order the police to enforce a proposed law. That is the guilty culprit because it robs us of our civil rights.

It makes a mockery of the whole idea of hearings, discussions and an MTA vote. What's next? Change a route before the hearings are held? Raise the fare, then hold the hearings?

How ironic? I just read in one of the papers today, that when questioned by a reporter a TA PR person stated, that no one has anything to worry about yet because in her words, the proposed new regulations are just that proposed and won't take effect until the fall. There was another article how the proposed rules are already being enforced, so you are not the only one being being harrassed.

Someone at the MTA needs to explain what's going on.

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