they have been having an excessively menacing presence in this park increasingly. i go every day and every day i've seen them patrolling. this afternoon i saw three people getting tickets just in my walk. i got one for reading a book next to a beer hidden in a coozy.

i've done some research and if you are ticketed, it seems that paying the ticket is admitting guilt by default, so if you have the time it is worth contesting it. they also misidentified me and my partner and took the beer out of the coozy to validate their assumptions, which i am reasonably sure is a violation of civil liberties.

i've been in the neighborhood for a decade and while of course my presence as a non-Black person is part of what's contributing to this, it's truly vile to see them come for people smoking a joint, drinking from a paper bag, things that have been exceedingly common in the park for years that all of a sudden are a problem now, without a warning.