Sting

The city of Glendale created a new strategy to establish a secured environment for both drivers and pedestrians (“Stings go on, sans bunny,” April 2). According to the article, “Glendale Police Officer Tom Broadway dressed in a pair of shorts and T-shirt, a far cry from the furry Easter costume that he sported a day earlier. On Thursday, he walked back and forth at two crosswalks, one lighted and marked, the other not.” The city’s police chose two intersections in which the number of accidents is high.

GLENDALE — The following are updates on area athletes playing minor league baseball .   Trevor Bell (Crescenta Valley High, 2005) Salt Lake Bees starting pitcher: Making his season debut for Double-A Salt Lake on Sunday afternoon, Bell was sharp over 6 2/3 innings, holding the Tacoma Raniers to one run on six hits and outlasting former American League Cy Young Award winner Cliff Lee to pick up the 4-1 win. In front of packed stadium on hand to see the Seattle Mariners ace make an injury rehab start, Bell matched Lee scoreless inning for inning through the first six frames.

Well, I am not certain how many letters have been written about the “bunny sting” and the outrage people have expressed here in Glendale, but I for one am in complete agreement with Glendale Police Department (“Sting like a bunny,” April 1). I lived in the valley for more than 30 years before moving here. The LAPD did this kind of thing to get the public’s attention with great success every year in different locations. Oh yes, they used costumes like a bunny, Santa Claus or Abe Lincoln.

I would like to thank retired Glendale Police Lt. Don Meredith for expressing the opinions that I totally agree with (“Drayman way off on bunny outburst,” April 2). As a pedestrian in south Glendale, I appreciate any effort to increase the safety in the area. I would also like to comment on the use of the bunny costume. In a sting using a regular decoy, the 20 or so people cited are educated. By using the bunny-costumed decoy you get a front-page story in the newspaper informing many more people.

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.

CENTRAL GLENDALE — The large furry rabbit walking between Central and Garfield avenues Wednesday was no hallucination, especially for drivers who failed to yield. For an hour and a half, Glendale Police Officer Tom Broadway donned the eye-catching costume during an enforcement sting aimed at educating motorists to yield for pedestrians walking along unmarked crosswalks. Police cited 24 motorists on suspicion of failing to yield to Broadway as he walked across Central.

SOUTH GLENDALE — Glendale police officers went forward with another pedestrian enforcement operation Thursday, a day after Councilman John Drayman took them to task for an earlier sting in which an officer dressed in a rabbit costume. Glendale Police Officer Tom Broadway dressed in a pair of shorts and T-shirt, a far cry from the furry Easter costume that he sported a day earlier. On Thursday, he walked back and forth at two crosswalks, one lighted and marked, the other not. All the while officers cited drivers who failed to yield, while giving them a rundown of pedestrian safety rules.

GLENDALE — An officer in plainclothes walked across an unmarked crosswalk at Hawthorne Street and Pacific Avenue numerous times Wednesday to see if drivers yielded to him, and those who didn’t stop received a citation. Many motorists sped by the officer, who wore a white T-shirt and blue jeans, as he walked the unmarked crosswalk, but other drivers stopped for him. Uniformed motorcycle officers quickly followed motorists who made no attempts to stop for the officer, cited them for failing to yield to a pedestrian at an unmarked crosswalk and informed them of the rules for those walkways.

GLENDALE — Undercover detectives arrested six men for soliciting prostitution Friday during a sting operation and rescued two 16-year-old girls who were being used as sex slaves, officers said. The girls, who were runaways, were discovered inside a hotel room in the 1500 block of Colorado Street after police had questioned their male companion outside the hotel for smoking marijuana, Glendale Police Vice Sgt. Scott Johnstone said. Police followed the man up to his hotel room, where one of the girls was taking a shower and the other was sitting on the bed with another man, Johnstone said.

GLENDALE — Police on Thursday ended a yearlong undercover investigation into prostitution at three Glendale massage establishments that resulted in the arrest of nine women. The announcement Thursday was the fourth large-scale prostitution bust in the city since 2007, as police and code enforcers use the Internet and print advertisements to track and investigate. Two women were arrested in February on prostitution-related charges after undercover officers investigated an online post advertising “Lovely Asian Girls wan to make u very happy.