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Originally Posted by fredr123
Having those same officers on the corner handing out warnings instead of tickets may have served the same purpose (albeit without the injection of revenue to the city) and got the message out about the sidewalk closure.
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I disagree with you on that. First of all, would this have been a news article or a thread on CP if the police were just giving warnings? By giving tickets it becomes news worthy.
Secondly, not everybody would have gotten the message. I recall years ago there was a murder overnight in front of where we worked. We watched one lady lift the "police line" tape and proceed to cross the street. Three cops stopped her right away and we watched her argue with them. She worked in my building so I mentioned it to her the next day, and she had no idea why what she was doing was in any way wrong. She said something like "I was late for work, and it wasn't like I was going to walk over the body or something."
You would have gotten the message, but you are also smarter than the average bear.