8 Responses to “Police: Helicopters, Sirens in CdM Are Not Emergency”
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billcoast
March 17th, 2010
I was wondering what the reason was for it to take ten minutes to get thru CDM on the Coast Hwy last night at about eight pm.
Laura
March 17th, 2010
Seriously! it was craziness!!
Lookout Visitor
March 17th, 2010
The Persian New Year has been a regular event at Big Corona, and parking has usually been free on a Tuesday night in March. Was the fray at the park entrance about Newport Beach's pursuit of parking fees from inland visitors to the state park? And did the NBPD overreact to the situation? I overheard three motor officers mention "chicks" at the hilltop entrance.
billcoast
March 17th, 2010
I'm sure that those three motor officers discussing "chicks" was police jargon for "Where should we go for chicken dinner?". Place smiley emodicom here.
Appraiser Vet
March 17th, 2010
An old maxim in real estate is take a 10% discount in the post-appraisal valuation for every police car in the neighborhood. Police helicopters further increase the discount factor. Corona del Mar just got significantly devalued.
Big Corona Swimmer
March 17th, 2010
The event of the next evening, St. Patrick's, shows that Big Corona needs police response and the NBPD did efficiently respond. Different than the questionable deployment on the previous night for the Persion New Year, the NBPD acted quickly and got out of there. The response was police cars, motor officer, undercover, and even help from the Newport Beach Lifeguard Jeep. Despite not being beach season, the NB Lifeguard and Fire Department reacted safely to the second day of hot March temperatures. The Lifeguard Jeep was at the water line until the 7pm sunset. The challenge for lifeguards is Big Corona becoming more than beach usage. That's difficult when lifeguarding means watching the water.
billcoast
March 18th, 2010
Appraiser Vet, I think you are over reacting to one police fly over. To think the value of my house went down $100,000 is ridiculous !!!
Jamie
March 19th, 2010
The Persian celebration while of great significance to those attending, like many events of recent years seemed to get a bit out of hand this year, though I didn't see anything resembling a riot. Having thousands of people show up unannounced in a residential neighborhood late at night, with the resulting traffic jam, lack of parking for residents coming home from work, loud music coming from a number of cars arriving and leaving, occasional (friendly) yelling between groups returning to their cars in the dark after 10 pm, the need for a "massive" police response is just one more example of why the fire rings need to go, or be substantially reduced. Events of this size need to fall under the permitting process, just like the "Taste of Newport" the "Concourse" or other event drawing large numbers of people. Residents need to be forewarned. While this event apparently has no central planning, the owners of the web site upon which the directions to the party were posted should be considered the ones responsible. Also, I'd like to know how much this Persian party cost the City. And finally - kudos to the NBPD for what I observed was a calm and measured response. They slowly but persistently herded the crowd off the beach and had Big Corona pretty much cleared by 10:15 pm. This event would be much better served if it was held near the Huntington Beach pier or the Newport Pier which are commercial areas designed to hold large numbers of people and where residents are not unduly displaced or disrupted late at night by the crowds.
