Police Officers put lives of business owners & customers in danger to continue harassment by pulling people over in parking lot

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TRAFFIC STOPS GO BAD! LAWRENCE POLICE OFFICERS PUT LIVES IN DANGER JUST TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO HARRASS THE BUSINESS OWNERS BY PULLING PEOPLE OVER IN FRONT OF THIER SMALL BUSINESS!

The yellow house has turned in several complaints about the police using their four stall parking lot to pull people over on Massachusetts.

Finally a traffic stop goes bad on Feb. 28th, 2007.
Here is the complaint the Yellow House sent out several weeks ago (To the City Manager, chief of police, commisioners etc.):


In the past 10 years, 90 officers nationwide have been killed during a traffic pursuit or stop, the FBI statistics show.



FORMAL COMPLAINT: JAN. 2007

I feel it is a form of harassment and disrespectful, when the police almost daily make traffic stops using my parking lot! We only have four stalls in front of our store and the liquor store has just two stalls.

When police pull people over it is typical for them to park long ways blocking the entire parking lot, preventing potential customers from being able to pull in. It is disrespectful towards our business and intimidating for potential customers to pull in when the police have our parking stalls blocked with the lights flashing. Customers often tell us they feared the police were after our business and did not stop in that day.

We also feel these traffic stops on our property are putting ourselves, our family members, and our customer’s safety unduly at risk. Should a traffic stop go bad, or should a person getting pulled over begin to resist or flee, our lives along with the people in our store could be put in danger! Or what if the person being pulled over has a gun or drugs in the car? As has been the case over and over lately around the downtown area!


Many times these cars being pulled over are just a few feet from our windows and doors; again we are being put at an unnecessary risk, should the stop go bad.

Police officers could easily use Dillons parking, or the Church parking, a safer alternative for the public.

The bottom line, we should and do expect Law enforcement to be there to protect and to serve. They should be using the badge to enforce the law and make our community a safer place to live, not using the power behind the badge as a weapon to make the lives of people or businesses they don't like more difficult or unsafe!

THE END

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STOP GONE BAD.....




Now... on Feb 28th 2007
A Lawrence Police officer pulled over a gold sedan in the parking lot of The Yellow House at 19th and Mass. When the car pulled into the lot (Just a few feet from the front door of the Yellow House) the two black male occupants (felons in posession of a stolen vehicle and drugs) Jumped from the car and ran.

Immediately the police cordened off the area, blocking the round-a-bout at 19th and barker and setting up road blocks in the general area.







Had these two felons ran into the Yellow House (which was just a few feet from the car) or had a shoot-out with the officer, The owners of the Yellow House or their customers, could have ended up in a hostage situation, or perhaps caught in the middle of bullets being fired.



Why should the Yellow House or their customers be subjected to this kind of danger? The Yellow House Parking lot is too small and the building is too close to the street for officers to be able to safely make traffic stops without interfering with the businesses limited parking, nor can the officer assure the safety of the business owners or the public when making these traffic stops.

When it is a known fact that police presence in front of a business is detrimental to the business, and it is a known fact the police go out of their way to stay out of the parking lots of Pawn Shops, as to not interfere with their business flow, why would the Yellow House be subjected to such police acts?






SEE STORY ABOUT THE FACT NO TRAFFIC STOP IS EVER ROUTINE:

There's no guarantee of a "routine'' traffic stop. Despite their training and procedures, cops throughout the state realize that their lives — and the lives of others — are on the line every time they pull a vehicle over.

http://www.policeone.com/traffic-patrol/articles/1195641/

Every single stop and every single location presents a danger," Firko said.