Law allows anyone over 21 to drink to drunkeness and walk the street but don't drive a vehicle. But in many instances someone who is drunk is then charged with disorderly conduct for his behavior.
I don't make the law!
Friday, September 16, 2011
Law and Open Containers with Link
I asked about open alcohol on the streets and sidewalks of our Police Chief and he said no open alcohol outside an establishment. Permission seems to be granted at various times for events in our city parks and that means drinking in the park not on the street.
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Maybe you should find out about "PUBLIC INTOXICATION" and if this is a arrestable act? No open containers of alcohol outside a public establishment is not true in the City of Peru. Lets get to the important subjects and discover why the same individuals have been caught with large sums of money but both times it has been allowed to be confiscated without any conflict or representation in court? It is realized that you don't make the law. The question is who should is to give out the correct interpretation of the law and who is to enforcing the law and what are their priorities?
I was told by the Peru Police Chief that PUBLIC INTOXICATION is not an arrestable act. He is the chief law enforcement person in Peru and responsible for what laws are enforced here. I asked the question just last week and that was the answer I got. Priorities, I have no clue. They will tell you the money was not claimed. I did attend one court hearing re: the airport money and no one showed up to claim it and it was postponed and no one ever did show up in court to make any claim.
Being that the Chief of Police is responsible for what laws are enforced in Peru what is his general feeling in regards to the 4th of July holiday being held on Water Street and does he have a feeling it should be moved? What has the Peru Liquor Commissioner said about it? Personally I can't find anything wrong with it as only a couple of arrests took place with all the people who attended.
I don't have a opinion from being there because we have never gone as we do not like the location and the friends who did go said they would never go back.
My beer drinking consists of an occasional with a meal and walking around an area with abandoned buildings and old industrial areas is not my idea of a nice place to spend much time. There is no seating unless you wish to sit on the RR tracks. We drive through occasionally and thats it. My personal opinion is that I would not enjoy an afternoon with small children or grandchildren.
I know what the police chief thinks personally but I would want to ask him for a comment for the public as to whether he would take his family there.
The Peru Liquor Commissioner being the mayor has made no comment.
From what I understand, it is not the arrests that took place, it is the ones that should have and weren't.
"My personal opinion is that I would not enjoy an afternoon on Water Street with small children or grandchildren" ---Correcting sentence above.
LaSalle has had several "public intoxication" arrests in the Police Reports over the last few years. If it is not the law in Peru one should be passed!
11:42AM
Perhaps our Peru Police Chief will correct me if I am wrong. I base my answer on the fact that last week, we talked about that topic and he said it was not against the law to be drunk in public. Perhaps La Salle is working from a different ordinance than Peru but hope that we would both be on the same page.
Public nuisance, disturbing the peace, public intoxication we don't need new ordinances or new laws. We need someone who will learn the old ones and simply enforce them. Excuses such as that is the only day of the year we do not enforce public displays of open liquor by public officials is b.s. and that is too nice a way of phasing it. Just think of what one stupid remark such as that has caused.
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