Cardinal’s Nest Cop Car Update
The Brookland listserv has more news on the Cardinal’s Nest, a neighborhood club owned by ex-cop Darrell Green and the subject of this week’s Show & Tell. In the column, I quote neighbor Tim Janning, who says he’s documented numerous visits to the bar from cops who don’t appear to be on official business.
Today, neighbor Dino Drudi noted some additional police presence at the Cardinal’s Nest on the listserv:
My neighbor reports yesterday evening there were FIVE MPD sport utility vehicles parked in front of Cardinal’s Nest—all the officers from these SUVs were patrons of the Cardinal’s Nest. Having observed the first vehicle arriving at 6:30PM, he noticed another hidden from his view that must have been there prior to that time. At approximately 7:10PM three more SUVs arrived. All these SUVs … were marked SOD (Special Operations Division). He reported that these officers were in the Cardinal’s Nest for approximately 1½ hours.
Later, Drudi posted this response, from Special Operations Division Commander James O. Crane:
Greetings Mr. Drudi, you may remember me from my days at 5D as a Sgt and later Captain. I’m still a Woodridge resident. The vehicles in question are under my command and I have initiated an investigated. We share AC Groomes’ and Chief Lanier’s concerns for the appearance and image such actions give the Department.
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May 30th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
if you want to talk about SOD cars parking somewhere and hanging out…i was at mackey’s on tuesday, and an SOD cruiser pulled up into the loading zone, parked, and two (not uniformed) officers got out, got a table, and had lunch outside. their eating lunch was no problem, but parking somewhere that would get me either a ticket or towed seemed kind of blatant.
May 31st, 2008 at 9:02 am
I don’t know why anyone would want to be the police in this city. Now officers can’t go to lunch. How do these whiners know the officers at the Cardinal’s Nest were not having a meeting? As for parking in the loading dock, get over it. If that is the only perk an officer in this city can have so what.
May 31st, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Only perk? Wow, where have you been? Police officers get away with murder in DC… literally (DeOnte Rawlings comes to mind). Hell they even get their jobs back after they’ve been fired for incompetence. Seriously, the police officers in this city lack professionalism. They are not held accountable for their actions. They should be doing everything that they can to improve their image. To me parking illegally for a non emergency is blatantly abusing their position. Walk a few blocks, it could give the impression that you are actually policing the community. Besides, I’ve seen many MPD officers that could definitely use the exercise. But then again, if you assume that they are professional enough to be holding a meeting in a public place (a bar nonetheless) then I suppose it is understandable that you would give them a pass to do something as unprofessional as break the very laws that they are paid to enforce.
June 1st, 2008 at 8:28 am
Wow, Kevin it is amazing how you discriminate against our officers painitng them all with a broad unprofessional brush. The Rawlings case has been invesitgated by the FBI, and US Attorney and those officers were cleared, in fact they only fired after being shot at. The officers who were terminated recieved their jobs back because they did not receive due process; have you ever heard that phrase. I bet if your rights violated you would want a court or an arbitrator to review the process and reverse the damage. Finally, please go to your police district and meet some of the officer who work there. I am certain that you will be pleasnatly surprised that they are not what you described in you post.