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 Police should practice what they preach
Posted Tue June 30, 2009 8:54 pm, by Nate E. written to City of Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety
To Whom It May Concern -
While driving upon South Westnedge Ave. Northbound near Whites Rd., there is a large billboard depicting two officers of your department on bicycles, along with two children on bicycles, all parties wearing helmets. Along with this is the message "Helmets are the new cool!"
Below the message, there are the logos of your department, Kohls, Bronson, and SafeKids Kalamazoo.
I think that it is an excellent idea that you have teamed with these local organizations to provide safety messages to area residents along with the recent helmet fitting and give out event.
The reason I am complaining is that this evening, Tuesday June 30, 2009, I witnessed an officer on bicycle patrolling the Kalamazoo Pedestrian mall near KVCC. The officer in question was not wearing a helmet, and was interacting with families with children.
I find it completely ironic that you preach a safety message that you do not personally practice. Additionally, it is shocking that you would send officers out on bicycle without this common piece of equipment generally regarded as essential to safety in the event of an accident.
I would like the Department of Public Safety to properly equip officers with safety equipment while patrolling on bicycles, especially since you have large images promoting such practices bearing your name and logo along with community sponsors.
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They do it ALL THE TIME. I used to see it every week. It's so unfair
to the good cops who don't do such things.
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by emt_c Posted Fri July 3, 2009 @ 12:25 AM
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that is extremely frustrating (probably no real luck on reporting it)
and totally wrong.
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by PepperElf Posted Wed July 1, 2009 @ 11:09 PM
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and contact the police dept too
i don't know about the cops
but i know back when i was in the military... if i was riding my bike
without a helmet and got in an accident, the navy would NOT pay for my
treatment since wearing a helmet was an official base policy. (we even
had to sign our names to it)
same for seatbelts etc...
not to mention it's a bad example for them to ride around like that
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by Donno Posted Tue June 30, 2009 @ 11:56 PM
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I fell off my bike going down a really steep hill at a high rate of
speed. Bent the forks on my bike like a pretzel, and I hit a fire
hyrant as I tumbled away. I recovered fine.
On a local paved rails to trails path, I recently saw a woman training
her 7 year old to ride a bike. He would go 50 feet by himself, and
then fall off the side onto the grass shoulder. He would get up, she
would start him off on the pavement, and the same thing would happen.
NO helmet, NO protective gear. Short sleeves and shorts. I
congratulated her for not caving in to all this protective crap the
government pushes on us.
Now motorcycles, that is a different story. I live in PA where our
esteemed government decided we can go out and split our heads open at
60 mph, without protection. And we actually pay these people's
salaries.
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I disagree
by Nicole F. Fri July 3, 2009 @ 12:28 AM
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