Post by HoyaNyr320 on Feb 8, 2006 11:53:05 GMT -5
I feel that I should clarify a couple parts of St. Pete's story, because he mentions an encounter I had with MPD 2 years back. Me and a couple of my friends were enjoying a Rosh Hashana dinner (Gold Hoya is right St. Pete- you can spell it however you want and you actually did a good job!). However, Rabbi White was not there (that would've been hilarious). At maybe 8 or 9pm, when one of my friends went outside to make a phone call. They were on their cell phone when an MPD cruiser pulled up and started yelling at my friend who was on the phone saying: "Do live here? Excuse me, Do you live here?" My friend had to get off the phone to talk to the police. He brought me outside at the officer's request and I was told "We've been getting complaints about noise in the area- I ask you to keep the noise down." When I told her that there must be a mistake and that we were having a small holiday dinner I was told "Just keep the noise down, sir." and she drove away.
What really bugs me is not a story like this, but the story of Saturday and of early this semester when real crimes take place when parties are getting broken up. Since we all know this past weekend's story, I'll share one from January. I was at a party on Bank St. (in between Prospect and M St.) on a Sunday night before MLK Day at around 12:45AM when 7 (that's right SEVEN) Metro Police cars pulled up. 5 Police officers came up to the party to tell people to leave and all 5 stayed for 15-20 minutes lecturing my friend who lives in the house about having noisy parties. All 5 of them stood around intimidating my friend as they wrote a $300 noise violation citation. And 3 police cruisers stayed behind on Bank St.making sure no one was walking out with an open container and/or coming back to the house to start the party again. The next day I read in the DPS blotter that at 1AM, exactly one block over from the party on 33rd and N St., a guy who was visiting Georgetown as a guest of a student was robbed at gunpoint. Of course "MPD canvassed the area with negative results." I understand that MPD is under pressure from the neighborhood to crackdown on noisy parties, but do they really need to send 7 cop cars to write a stupid noise violation? Maybe if they sent one cop car and then had the rest patrolling? What a concept. I nearly ripped the Hoya yesterday when I saw that comment from the Lt. What airheads.
What really bugs me is not a story like this, but the story of Saturday and of early this semester when real crimes take place when parties are getting broken up. Since we all know this past weekend's story, I'll share one from January. I was at a party on Bank St. (in between Prospect and M St.) on a Sunday night before MLK Day at around 12:45AM when 7 (that's right SEVEN) Metro Police cars pulled up. 5 Police officers came up to the party to tell people to leave and all 5 stayed for 15-20 minutes lecturing my friend who lives in the house about having noisy parties. All 5 of them stood around intimidating my friend as they wrote a $300 noise violation citation. And 3 police cruisers stayed behind on Bank St.making sure no one was walking out with an open container and/or coming back to the house to start the party again. The next day I read in the DPS blotter that at 1AM, exactly one block over from the party on 33rd and N St., a guy who was visiting Georgetown as a guest of a student was robbed at gunpoint. Of course "MPD canvassed the area with negative results." I understand that MPD is under pressure from the neighborhood to crackdown on noisy parties, but do they really need to send 7 cop cars to write a stupid noise violation? Maybe if they sent one cop car and then had the rest patrolling? What a concept. I nearly ripped the Hoya yesterday when I saw that comment from the Lt. What airheads.
