Yep, those are police cars taking up four spaces intended for the public at the temporary overflow parking lot at the Winston Wells ball field in Cruz Bay.
Inez the Deputy Inquiring Iguana spotted them there.
The temporary lot was opened about a week ago because of the St. John Festival, which has made parking is more scarce downtown than usual.
It’s not enough the police park half a dozen of their huge SUVs in front of Headquarters, eh?
Why aren’t sone of those cars on patrol?
Not unusual, just like in many places back in the states, police think they are above the law.
Public parking in St john has become more of a problem in the last few years. The road along the water up the hill from the beach bar was available at one time, now it’s a no parking zone. Paying 350-400 per week for jeep rentals, and then having to pay for parking, if you can find something is a problem. I live in New Orleans, and it’s the same there. The city depends on tourism, but does little to accomodate peoplw wirh available parking places. But they do have the meter maids out in full force daily!!!
Maybe if they were out patroling and writing some tickets the VI could generate some money to help fund the school systems. It seems like all the money the Police dept has is spent on cleaning supplies for their unused suv’s
The VI Government Claims nobody wants to be a police officer that they need volunteers. So if we don’t have enough officers why so many SUV’s. Why don’t we reduce the amount of money spent on new police cars bought and maintained a spend the saved money increasing the salary of officers in the hopes that it will encourage more to enroll and perform.