The following was on my local North Oakland Voters list server: The Profitable Checkpoint Business Posted by: "Sherman Kassof" heevay@yahoo.com heevay Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:42 pm (PST) Have a look at the NY Times article below. Apparently the Oakland police are up to their eyeballs in this business.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/us/14sfcheck.html?hp
I was out driving around last night and ran into one of these. In Rockridge? Lakeshore? Golf Links Road? Temescal? Not a chance. At 85th and East 14th St. is where it was. Hey why don't a few of us enterprising types offer to run these operations for the police on a contract basis, much like the company in Australia that runs a very large chunk of the red light cameras in California. We need some walking around money too and there's enough for everyone. It will leave the police the leeway and leisure to generate those much-craved, up to the minute crime occurrence maps. There are are more than a few currently unemployed former Blackwater functionaries now available at an attractive rate of pay. And an unlimited number of underclassmen out there to pounce upon. Purely in the interest of road safety and general good order. But really the police should be more proactive in being sure that family members who come running to them with a wad of cash do not get stuck up or murdered before getting a chance to deliver it. You don't need an MBA to see that that's a reasonable idea. But, granted, a quibble.
Sherman 66th Street
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