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That's not entrapment. Entrapment is the state coercing someone to do something they would not do under normal circumstances. It sounds to me as if these peopl

That's not entrapment. Entrapment is the state coercing someone to do something they would not do under normal circumstances. It sounds to me as if these people are illegally parking under normal circumstances. The rules about curbs, hydrants, driveways, &c are well known and common enough between every state that there is no excuse that they weren't aware this was illegal.

somehnguy 7y ago
Call it what you want, its still a screwed up way to run things.
dsfyu404ed 7y ago
>That's not entrapment. It's still highly unethical, especially when your target population is supposedly already paying tens of thousands for use of the facilities.
- jimktrains2 7y ago
  Highly unethical to expect people to follow the law? We're not talking acts of civil disobedience against unjust laws, we're talking willful abuse of laws designed for public safety. City streets are not the campus facilities, and what of the people using public transit or other means of transportation? Should they have to pay additional on their tens of thousands to subsidize those people with cars?
  - Nasrudith 7y ago
    It is transparently using the enforcement in a predatory way. Their goal clearly isn't to keep the parking enforced or they would have done it from the start or at least after move in times. That is what is highly unethical - they deliberately let the /problem start/ for profit. They aren't the law either any more than Jimmy's Pizza place is when the call to tow a car that was abandoned for a week.
nickthemagicman 7y ago
A trap is something easy to get into but hard to get out of. They made the parking rules unclear and never enforced them then cracked down brutally.
- jimktrains2 7y ago
  Which is exactly why you're able to speed with impunity, even if you receive a ticket for it? Most places do not make the rules unclear and many rules brought up in the subthread, e.g. hydrants and parking near an intersection, are well known and common among the states. Look, I'm not saying that basically giving everyone a month with no warnings and then going out in force isn't a crappy thing to do. I'm just saying that that's not entrapment, nor is an an awful thing for the police to do, even if there are nicer ways to do it, e.g. giving notices on windshields for the first week of the semester and afterwards being issuing tickets.

somehnguy 7y ago

Call it what you want, its still a screwed up way to run things.

dsfyu404ed 7y ago

>That's not entrapment. It's still highly unethical, especially when your target population is supposedly already paying tens of thousands for use of the facilities.

jimktrains2 7y ago
Highly unethical to expect people to follow the law? We're not talking acts of civil disobedience against unjust laws, we're talking willful abuse of laws designed for public safety. City streets are not the campus facilities, and what of the people using public transit or other means of transportation? Should they have to pay additional on their tens of thousands to subsidize those people with cars?
- Nasrudith 7y ago
  It is transparently using the enforcement in a predatory way. Their goal clearly isn't to keep the parking enforced or they would have done it from the start or at least after move in times. That is what is highly unethical - they deliberately let the /problem start/ for profit. They aren't the law either any more than Jimmy's Pizza place is when the call to tow a car that was abandoned for a week.

nickthemagicman 7y ago

A trap is something easy to get into but hard to get out of. They made the parking rules unclear and never enforced them then cracked down brutally.

jimktrains2 7y ago
Which is exactly why you're able to speed with impunity, even if you receive a ticket for it? Most places do not make the rules unclear and many rules brought up in the subthread, e.g. hydrants and parking near an intersection, are well known and common among the states. Look, I'm not saying that basically giving everyone a month with no warnings and then going out in force isn't a crappy thing to do. I'm just saying that that's not entrapment, nor is an an awful thing for the police to do, even if there are nicer ways to do it, e.g. giving notices on windshields for the first week of the semester and afterwards being issuing tickets.