March 28, 2024
BANGOR DAILY NEWS (BANGOR, MAINE

Where were the police?

On Sunday afternoon (April 23), as the Shrine Circus ended, I was parked on a nearby side street waiting to pick up my children. I couldn’t help but notice the two long lines of cars backed up, waiting to get off the Bangor Auditorium grounds and onto Main Street. And the two traffic lights, when they were green, were mercilessly short.

Fortunately, I was not involved in waiting through this traffic jam. But I wonder: where were the police? Where I grew up, the police automatically, almost magically, appeared at the ends of every football game, basketball game, circus, and the like to countermand the traffic lights and facilitate traffic flow.

There was one police officer in the area, sitting in his patrol car, farther down Main street.

It seems to me that directing traffic is a traditional police function, and if I were living in Bangor, I would want to try to get the police to help out a bit more after these events. David P. Frasz Dover-Foxcroft


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