While the car apparently did have legal spaces, police obviously get the benefit of the doubt while on duty. This is a trivial waste of time for the individual reporting.

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Please forward this to the police department internal affairs so they can handle this.
This is not a waste of time. The police would give you a citation for parking in the red zone, they also have to comply with the law unless there is an emergency and there is no place to park. The people enforcing our laws are not above the law and should set an example for all of us.

Not worth wasting anybody's time about.

This is why the the judge is going to put the police under a receiver at who knows what price to the tax payers. The police think they are above the law.

In the context of the city's hundred-plus homicides this year, this is a pretty trivial complaint.

Maybe if he wasnt parked in the red zone he could be out protecting us from the people who are committing the hundred-plus homicides

He may well have been parked there for that reason.

who effin cares. get a life.

The previous comment is a tasteless insult to Oakland's police force, whose job is difficult enough without hearing such rubbish.

Why does the page not allow us to flag a comment like the "pigs" insult?

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I tried to flag it, and it did not work.

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I did receive your flag of the aforementioned comment. Thanks again, and keep fixing.

When you try to flag something, the system does not confirm that you have done so.

SMH, like there aren't real problems to deal with. Get a life.

This was always a nonsense "issue."

Our independent inspectors report that this "issue" was always totally bogus.

Please close this "issue."