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911 <br />police • Fire • Medical <br />EMERGENCY <br />James R. Trudeau <br />Sheriff <br />WASHINGTON COUNTY <br />yden <br />Kenneth hiefDeputy <br />Donald W. McGlothlin <br />OFFICE OF THE SHERIFF <br />Captain - Administration <br />GOVERNMENT CENTER <br />Thomas Greene <br />14900 61ST STREET NORTH, P.O. BOX 6 • STILLWATER, MINNESOTA 55082.0006 <br />Captain - Patrol <br />Facsimile Machine: 612M9-4708 <br />Richard D. Backer <br />Captain - Jell <br />September 7, 1990 <br />Dale W. Fuerstenberg <br />Captain - Investigations <br />Telephone: <br />Non -Emergency <br />(612) 439.9381 <br />Mayor Susan Dunn & <br />Lake Elmo City Council Members <br />City Hall <br />3800 Laverne Avenue North <br />Lake Elmo, MN 55042 <br />Re: Speeding Complaints by Richard Acres <br />County Road 17 Between 20th Street North & Highway 5 <br />Dear Mayor Dunn and City Council Members: <br />It appears that Mr. Richard Acres has been misinformed or erred in several <br />statements made to you by letters on August 9 and August 22, 1990. I think <br />we all know that court cases regarding speed are not thrown out of court <br />because they were issued for speeds under 40 mph. I also think that we know <br />that the statement that "cases are not prosecuted due to the expenses involved" <br />is not true. The statement that "citations will not be issued for speeders <br />under 9 mph over the speed limit" is not true either. <br />As explained at the Council Meeting on August 21, 1990, each case is taken <br />separately. It is this Deputy's opinion that Mr. Acree's complaints are <br />exaggerated in that he has no basis for his opinion other than the visual <br />observations he has made on County Road 17. In a phone conversation with <br />Mr. Acree, he stated to me that to prove cars were speeding on County Road <br />17 he had his wife drive up and down County Road 17 at different speeds so <br />now he knows what a speeding car looks like. <br />I have watched cars do this at different speeds for 15 years and cannot <br />estimate their speeds to the point where I would feel comfortable writing <br />a citation to somebody. During this phone conversation, I invited Mr. Acree <br />to sit in our squads with us while running radar which he said that he would <br />like to do, and of the many times we have been doing this on County Road 17 <br />within k mile north or south of his house he has never taken the opportunity. <br />Washington County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, <br />sex, religion, age or handicapped status In employment or the provision of services. <br />