Police News Roundup (Abbreviated Edition)
Base10 is taking Mrs. Base10 to a show tonight, so must hurry. Base10 is off tomorrow and promises a full day of blogging fun.

The Police Commissioner has announced a plan to have every train arriving into Penn Station checked by bomb-sniffing dogs during the upcoming Republican National Convention in August. He pledged the City would remain open for business, but left open the possibility that the station would be closed when the President in Madison Square Garden.

In more RNC news, the Mayor was unsurprisingly opposed to a rally during the convention by police and fire unions protesting the current situation in contract talks.

Chinatown residents are complaining about police and other law enforcement officials parking on the street. Base10 questions the sincerity of this complaint after area residents sued to get vehicles removed from the triangle at Pearl and Madison Streets.

In another announcement, Commissioner Kelly said he would no longer allow the accrual of large amounts of compensatory time by high-ranking police officials.

And in the "no pun today" department, a memorandum from City Councilwoman Margarita Lopez blasting the Mayor's policy against social promotion of third-graders was found to be rife with spelling mistakes. It's not even necessary to make a wry comment here. It speaks for itself.
- posted by Base10 @ 6:03 PM