Certainly it doesn't apply in EVERY city, but people have to realize that this business of double parking, or even leaving your car in the street while you run to the curbside to complete an errand, is no longer above suspicion after 9-11. You cannot double park at the airport loading zones anywhere now, and if you give the officer some lip when you are asked to move on, you WILL be subject to forceful handling or arrest. We have known for some time that a public school with several thousand students is every bit a target of opportunity as any government installation, so are hospitals, theaters, and theme parks.
I'm not saying that this incident had anything to do with terrorist-prevention instructions given to the cops on duty at this particular school, but it's time for people to get off this ego trip of having THEIR convenience every time they go anywhere or do anything. If the traffic is that bad at the school, you KNOW it is going to be bad by now so figure out how to deal with it another way. Every single kid in the school does not have to have to be delivered right to the front door and picked up the same, they will not suffer from having to walk around the corner to help mom or dad out. It's really unfortunate that the world has changed so much that kids aren't safe walking or biking to school by themselves anymore like we geezers did (even in the pouring rain and with six feet of snow on the ground, uphill both ways), but I really do understand that is not an option nowdays. Neither are paper routes or selling Girl Scout Cookies door to door
