This officer just drove by without even asking the driver to move. CPD makes traffic enforcement a joke. We expect better

CPD places NO priority on bike lanes or cross walks or cars parked on sidewalks. Too much work, until someone gets hit by a car, then they do a sweep for a few days and forget about it. Besides, they're too busy checking their phones while they drive.

I would rather see CPD prioritizing serious crime vs. an issue with a bike lane. And smearing all of CPD by referring to one incident with one officer is absurd.

How about we ask our City Council representatives to allocate more funds to traffic enforcement, apart from serious crimes, instead of smearing CPD?

I'm an ardent bike advocate and I don't have an issue with CPD generally. I have seen them enforce egregious behavior. They generally let things go on Mass Ave, because they could literally spend all day writing tickets to a majority of people. I see why they take an arms length approach.

That being said, there is an epidemic of people parking their cars in the Mass Ave bike lane where it's unprotected. We need a redesign of this area. It's currently a free-for-all by design.

Thank you for reporting your concern to City of Cambridge via Commonwealth Connect. We will use this information as part of an ongoing review of data to better understand where and when to deploy our officers for this type of enforcement.

So you are aware, at 5:09 p.m. (minutes after this was posted), we responded to La Fabrica for a reported disturbance inside the establishment.

So maybe CPD was doing its job: the officer mentioned above may not have just driven "by without even asking the driver to move"; if a life is being threatened it is a higher priority than clearing a bike lane.

Thanks. I know i can be hard on you, and I want to make it clear that CPD as a whole is doing a great job at keeping Cambridge safe.
The ONE problematic thing is traffic enforcement (as supported by the city and police's own data, that shows that it is the current #1 reason people get injured in Cambridge, besides domestic accidents).
It really feels that too little is done to curb bad behaviors given what I see drivers do every day, as a driver, cyclist and pedestrian. Those behaviors do get people in the hospital or in the morgue, and cannot be ignored.