The police didn’t make the ordinance. It was the petty D.C. bureacracy and administration that did it. Don’t blame the Cops who are stuck enforcing baloney rules and regs created by the gov’t entities. Geez, some people want to blame the Cops for everything.
Seriously, you think police enforce all of the laws?
Give me an ever lovin break.
They generally only enforce laws against those who won’t hurt them back.
Chances are most of the cops wouldn’t even know about the ordinances. That is especially true in a place like DC that probably has thousands of them.
Its what I like about where I am. Few ordinances and even fewer code enforcers. When I had a cop move in next door he asked me if it was legal to burn brush in the yard. I told him “I don’t know but everybody around here does it anyway”.
When the county tried to force some countywide ordinances the Township supervisors overwhelmingly said no. My township supervisor said it would be pointless because we would just ignore them.