MPD Chief Cathy Lanier on Bicycle Sensitivity Training for Officers

by washcycle
From Kojo Nnamdi yesterday. It starts at 30:00.
A woman called in who had been ticketed after a crash with a parking enforcement officer. She claimed that all of the witnesses agreed that the driver was at fault, but the officer cited her instead and threatened to write her a ticket for not wearing a helmet. Then she asked, with Kojo’s help, what the MPD was doing "for sensitivity training towards bicycles for officers?"
[ Cathy Lanier: Bicycles, and the pedicabs and segways are becoming a bigger and bigger issue in the city. We do do bicycle enforcement. There are regulations for bicycle, just like there are traffic regulations, the bicycle regulations are enforced by the officers. So sometimes we enforce against the bicyclists and sometimes we enforce against the motoring public because there are violations on both sides. But, y’know, this is a rapidly expanding pedestrian-style neighbor… community. All of Washington, DC. The number of bicyclists and segwayists and foot traffic around the city is just really skyrocketing, so we all have to all kind of work together here and build some tolerance for each other and I would say in terms of the officer’s rudeness, if you are ever not satisfied with an interaction with a police officer I would encourage please to reach out to us and let us know and you can do that through our website also or through a District commander.]
Sort of a non-answer, but later around 35:00 she talks about how low traffic fatalities have been and the challenge of protecting pedestrians and bicyclists…and then distracted bicyclists.

https://www.thewashcycle.com/2010/07/mpd-chief-cathy-lanier-on-bicycle-sensitivity-training-for-officers.htmloldId.20100717122132658