Mailbag: Confused by police sting operation

I work for a towing company right next to Glendale. I just read an article that you contributed to regarding a police sting for motorists that didn’t stop for pedestrians on Central and Garfield avenues (“Sting like a bunny,” April 1).

I’m having a hard time understanding how this “sting” operation works. By no means am I educated in law enforcement, but I have never gotten a ticket since I started driving six years ago. I consider myself a very safe driver, but on occasions I have stopped for pedestrians who are walking across the street in an unmarked crosswalk.

From my understanding, that would be called jaywalking, and they should be cited for it.

I can’t see in any way why it would be safe for someone to walk out in an unmarked crosswalk and expect vehicles, sometimes traveling far in excess of the speed limit (we all have driven in Glendale, we know this) to stop suddenly when someone pops out of nowhere and crosses the street.

Are people that lazy that they can’t walk a block to the nearest marked crosswalk?

If you ask me, I consider this move by the Glendale Police Department to be entrapment. Don’t get me wrong, if someone is speeding they should be cited; if a car doesn’t stop for a pedestrian in a marked crosswalk, they should be cited.

But to ticket a driver for someone crossing the street where there are no pedestrian markings is plain ridiculous. It’s just another move to make more money for the city to waste doing stupid exercises like this sting.

Here’s some advice, do DUI checkpoints more often. I can’t even begin to tell you how many cars we impound for DUIs. That and speeding are far more dangerous than anything else.

Better yet, he’s a solution for the problem: Don’t cross the street where you’re not supposed to and you won’t get hit by a speeding BMW or Benz.

JESSICA DIAZ

La Crescenta