Gabrielle Costello

Review of Ocean City Police Department

I work full time in Ocean City. One morning, I dro...

I work full time in Ocean City. One morning, I drove behind an OCPD police officer from the 54 junction down to the McDonalds on 120th. That's almost thirty blocks. In that time, I witnessed (as a CITIZEN), three people driving while on their cell phones, two separate pairs of bikers completely ignore traffic stop lights and just blow through red lights (thank god no one was coming...) and a handful of families cross Coastal HIGHWAY outside of a crosswalk--as in, nowhere near a crosswalk. Why anyone wants to run in the middle of the highway is beyond me, but anyways... What happened to that town hall meeting where they talked about actually writing tickets for these minor offenses? One wrong time and these 'minor' offenses could be deadly. If I witness all this as a citizen while riding behind this cop, why did he not stop and correct these behaviors? Everyday I have to drive down Coastal Highway and everyday, at least once but usually more, I have to stomp on my breaks because some idiot runs out in the middle of a highway. Get it together OCPD, ticket these infractions. If it starts to cost people $50 to not use a crosswalk or ignore traffic lights, maybe they'll want to actually follow the rules.