Off-Duty Cops Reported Driving on Pelham Bay Park Trails
A troubling reader tip from the Bronx:
By
Brad Aaron
1:35 PM EDT on October 31, 2008
A troubling reader tip from the Bronx:
Off-duty police officers have been using the Pelham Bay Park walking/running trails in order to avoid traffic. They barrel through the park at a high rate of speed. Twice I was almost run over while jogging, and once I was cursed at when I put my hands up. My friend asked a Parks Dept. employee about it. She told us that they were off-duty cops and that there was nothing that they could do about it. Couldn’t they install bollards or something?
Streetsblog has a message in with NYPD. The Parks Department had no comment.
Anyone else witnessed this?
Photo: E. Kuzina/Flickr
Brad Aaron began writing for Streetsblog in 2007, after years as a reporter, editor, and publisher in the alternative weekly business. Brad adopted New York's dysfunctional traffic justice system as his primary beat for Streetsblog. He lives in Manhattan.
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