police blotter

[topaz]

I dropped off the formal written complaint at the police HQ today.

Thanks to all of you for your support and suggestions, especially psongster and jwg for your suggestions for people to contact. I sent mail to Henrietta Davis and to Cara Seidelman, and (at the suggestion of Michael Halle of the Cambridge Bike Committee) Sgt. Kathy Murphy, who heads the bike patrol. Seidelman agreed that I had done nothing wrong, and that the responses of the officers I interacted with indicate a serious problem with the CPD's approach to bicycles. She got ahold of Sgt. Murphy, who tried to call me in several different places (when I was unfortunately out and did not have my cell phone). Someone also rang some bells with a Sgt. Burke who works in IA, and who contacted me urging me to submit the written complaint.

So after the holiday I'll have lots of leads to follow up. Hopefully some of them will bear fruit!

Comments

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not the BPD -- this is Cambridge, which might be marginally better.