Most bicyclists want their rig and outfit to be as light as possible. No such luck if you’re riding a bike on police patrol. Here’s a quick video tour of the police bicycle ridden by Officer Jorge Salang of the Albany Police Department’s community resource unit.
In Albany, now would be as good a time as any to wipe off or paint over the graffiti that have started to show up here and there along one of my bike routes and possibly elsewhere. Tagging is likely to get out of hand if we don’t.
A man talked of suicide and set himself on fire near the roundabout on Albany’s Knox Butte Road last Aug. 20. Police Officer Sam Posthuma kept him from completing that plan, and for that the officer has now been honored for saving the man’s life.
Is the Albany Police Department reviving its motorcycle patrols? That’s what I wondered on Friday when I was driving into town and followed a cop on a motorbike on North Albany Road. But, alas, it isn’t so.
Now that they have the tools for a renewed campaign against unlawful behavior by vagrants, Albany police will have to use them. The city council Wednesday passed ordinances against open containers of alcohol in public places, and against relieving oneself in public. Having laws is one thing. Applying them is something else. For that, the police […]
Albany is taking another stab at cleaning up a couple of related nuisances — the mess left from squatting in public spaces, and street corner begging. The city council this week is taking up ordinances against having open containers of alcohol — and urinating and defecating — on public property. You’d think those latter two items would be […]
Death off the Dave Clark Path
The last thing users of Albany’s Dave Clark riverside path should expect is death and decay. But then again, maybe we should not be all that surprised when someone finds exactly that.
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