Take notes, fellas.
FITZ
ADMIN
Post #11612
Manhattan, Kan.
MyFanPage
Add Buddy Re: K-State needs to get a grip on the RCPD tailgate crew Reply
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Try living in this town right now. I am on the Aggieville Business Association Board and RCPD Director Brad Gruntley told us if we didn't comply with his wishes, he could "make it so uncomfortable no one will ever want to come" to Aggieville. The discussion was on Fake Patty's Day, over which the board has no authority because many of the bars are not members of our organization. Gruntley admitted that the businesses are operating within the law and there were few if any incidents within bars, but he still wants the event shut down and basically threatened the livelihood of local business people if they didn't comply.
Needless to say, I fired back and reminded him that 1) he works for us, not the other way around, and 2) the police don't get to make up laws, they get to enforce them.
My issue are things such as RCPD telling bars they can't sell bottles on game weekends and even lying that there was an ordinance. There isn't. There are also plenty of stories of traffic stops under blatantly false pretenses and entering premises without a warrant on false pretenses. (My favorite is an Aggieville bar employee moved her car from a street spot to a lot spot, going less than half a block, and a cop rolled up and checked her for DUI because they had received a call about her erratic driving. Now that's response time!)
I also returned from a speaking engagement in McPherson on Wednesday, Aug. 25 and a buddy and I noted that despite 3/4s of the parking spots being open in the Ville, there were cops everywhere. We asked a cop in Aggieville what was up and he said the Director "heard there was a battalion shipping out to Afghanistan the next day and wanted to give them goodbye presents." He said there were 17, yes 17, officers on duty that night.
And all of this with the backdrop of the Director loudly bitching that his budget INCREASE wasn't enough and he needs more staff.
Just a reminder that if something is closed and contents are not in view, the police do not have the right to open it without a warrant. As a libertarian, I am horrified at some of the things going on in this community right now.
Posted on 9/13 2:23 PM | IP: Logged
Hutchtrash
New walk-on to the team
Post #26
MyFanPage
Add Buddy Re: K-State needs to get a grip on the RCPD tailgate crew Reply
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Amen Father Fitz
Posted on 9/13 2:33 PM | IP: Logged
FITZ
ADMIN
Post #11615
Manhattan, Kan.
MyFanPage
Add Buddy Re: K-State needs to get a grip on the RCPD tailgate crew Reply
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
One more thing that really angers people in Manhattan. Off duty cops are infamous for driving after drinking. One night a buddy of mine was drinking with off duty cops who were getting pretty drunk. When he left, one of them called an on-duty officer who popped him with a DUI. The off duty cops all drove home hammered. I now will not drive home from Aggieville after one beer. Under advice of attorney, I have been told that when asked if I have been drinking, the answer is always no. Well, I'd like that to be an honest answer.
Thank goodness for the couch in my office and a wife who agrees with this philosophy.
I know, you say, get a cab. Well, one of my employees was told by a cop to quit loitering one night as he stood in front of our business and waited for a cab. As the cop continued to tell him he couldn't stand on a public sidewalk, the cab rolled up and he got in and left.