I'm going to follow up on this as well. Our Police DO HAVE JURISDICTION, so you should not have been told this.<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Alice</div><div><br></div><div>Alice Ewen</div><div><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:47 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruce.wernek@mindspring.com">bruce.wernek@mindspring.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p>Audrey</p>
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<p>It doesn't make sense to me. Our police have jurisdiction in Riverdale, the park is in Riverdale, yet the dispatcher says they have no jurisdiction. What would our police do if a crime was being committed in the park right in front of them, watch?</p>
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<p>Bruce<br><br><br></p><div class="im">
<blockquote style="padding-left:5px;margin-left:0px;border-left:#0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message----- <br>From: <a href="mailto:ABragg7393@aol.com" target="_blank">ABragg7393@aol.com</a> <br>Sent: Jun 11, 2010 9:18 AM <br>
To: <a href="mailto:towntalk@riverdale-park.org" target="_blank">towntalk@riverdale-park.org</a> <br>Subject: [RP TownTalk] warning <br><br><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">
<div>Hi everyone,</div>
<div>My neighbor told me that a friend of his from Hyattsville was assaulted on the Bike Trail, under the E-W Highway bridge on Monday at around 7:30 p.m. Nothing was stolen from him, but he was beaten so bad he had to spend the night in the hospital. He says it was a gang of 5 males. The victim was a middle aged man, just out for a bike ride.</div>
<div>I know many of you walk, bike and run that trail and I thought you should know about this. Also, our police department does not have jurisdiction for the park, so it may not be patrolled as well as the rest of the town.</div>
<div>This was an attack of vicious rage. It worries me that this is going on so close to my home. </div>
<div>The other night I got out of my car around 9 p.m. in front of my house and a man approached me speaking a language I did not understand. He was a stranger to my neighborhood and I found this unsettling.</div>
<div>When he saw my friend get out of the car on the otherside, he turned and walked away.</div>
<div>Please be careful.</div>
<div>If any of the town officials read this, is there someway we can partner with the Park Police so that our officers do have some control?</div>
<div>My neighbor said he went to our police but the dispatcher told him we didn't have jurisdiction in the park.</div>
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<div>Audrey</div>
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