San Diego Police Dept. Trailer

The police use is over active and way to abusive for its use. A complete over active use of its authority. Please don’t let these acts choose your govt

Half of Ocean Beach (mostly businesses) loves this Police Dept. trailer that has been parked in the middle of the OB Pier parking lot at the foot of Newport Ave. for what seems like forever. Officially, it is there because the OB Police storefront was closed a few years back & this is a way of keeping some kind of «police presence» in the beach area. But many others think it is bogus and needs to move.
According to a story in a recent Peninsula Beacon newspaper, this Police trailer was put in place in 1999 and supposed to have been only temporarily situated there. But the years dragged on, and the Police Trailer is said to house just a cop bathroom and a break area for police to kick back and write reports.
Many in the Ocean Beach community begrudge the cops their blue trailer for taking up precious parking spaces in the always crowded lot and feel the cops should move it over to Robb Field – where there is more room and just as much crime. The big news is a citizen has filed a complaint against the trailer and now the Police Dept. is having to get a permit to park it in the lot from the California Coastal Commission!
So because the Police Trailer does provide some kind of «police presence» in the parking lot area where druggies and penniless vagrants roam free, I gave it 3 Unilocal STARS. But I also deducted 2 Unilocal STARS due to the trailer being a view-​blocking, parking space-​clogging eyesore that rubs it into the faces of OBceans that THE MAN is always watching them. Maybe the Coastal Commission will deny them a permit and they can haul the trailer somewhere else. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.