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Mount Pleasant looks for new crime fighting toolsBy Prentiss Findlay (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
MOUNT PLEASANT — Mount Pleasant residents might soon see more police officers on bikes. Members of the Police, Judicial and Legal Committee met Tuesday and approved a police department application for $4,000 from the Wal-Mart Foundation to buy 16 bikes. Having more officers on bikes will increase officer community contact, reduce fuel consumption and provide a new crimefighting tool. An officer on a bike is quieter and can sneak up on a suspect, Police Chief Harry Sewell said. Read more in tomorrow's editions of The Post and Courier |
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Posted by Smart_Enough_2_Know_Better on September 2, 2008 at 11:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)
For the same reasons that Mount Pleasant was ranked as one of top 10 LEAST friendly walking cities, so too is it one of the least friendly biking cities in the country- no sidewalks and dangerous intersections to cross (on either bike or foot). You are taking a significant risk to try and bike around this town.
Also:
“An officer on a bike is quieter and can sneak up on a suspect”
Really Chief Sewell, is that HONESTLY one of the primary reasons you would get bikes for the department- to sneak up on evil-doers?
And unless your suspects are either physically disabled or have narcolepsy, wouldn't most of them be long gone by the time the officer bikes several miles to the scene of a crime?