Seattle Police Dept. advises community "drug watch" groups to call 911 if they see two people sitting idly in a parked car.
Seattle Weekly reports
Ever sit and chat in a parked car? That may warrant a 911 call for suspicious activity. (Look out, area teenagers.) So says a post on neighborhood blog Phinneywood, where a resident recounts witnessing a drug transaction in front of his house. He called the police, who he says told him:
Do call 911 immediately if you see a car with people sitting in it apparently going no where. They are waiting to make a drug connection.
Seattle Weekly reports
Ever sit and chat in a parked car? That may warrant a 911 call for suspicious activity. (Look out, area teenagers.) So says a post on neighborhood blog Phinneywood, where a resident recounts witnessing a drug transaction in front of his house. He called the police, who he says told him:
Do call 911 immediately if you see a car with people sitting in it apparently going no where. They are waiting to make a drug connection.
Yikes! Sounds like a rather loose definition of suspicious activity, a rather low bar to clear for a 911 call, an invitation to all sorts of profiling, and a little like those unconstitutional loitering statutes. So we called SPD to confirm that these are, indeed, their desired instructions.
Thanks to Drug War rant
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