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•' 1 The- Commissioner - added' that:.he :had , also learned the establishments.. <br /> 2 had to hire the police- because. there had. been a real .need . for them. <br /> 3 He said the Maplewood :police had told him -that prior : to.. hiring .a <br /> 4 police officer; there 'had been numerous problems in the,.parking lot <br /> 5 which they • attributed to the young crowd going into/coming. out of <br /> 6. the Amusement Arcade establishment in that mall. : He . 'said the <br /> ? <br /> police..reported getting called at least twice a- week prior to . their . . <br /> 8 off - duty officer working - in the establishment involving numerous .. <br /> 9 problems with juveniles consuming in public;- there were fights , in <br /> 10 the parking lot; and consuming on the lot, which the . police <br /> 11 attributed to arcade customers; most of whom ' appeared to._be , <br /> 12 transient type kids. Commissioner Werenicz, also stated. that the. <br /> 13 establishment was drawing from all over and the police. were .having <br /> 14 all kinds of problems. <br /> 15 Mr. Heilicher said they had a police officer on duty at Maplewood <br /> 16 from the first day they opened their establishment and a further <br /> 17 check would show there were. many of the same incidents long before <br /> 18 the arcade opened. These are the type of problems all . big malls <br /> 19 experience , he contended. Commissioner Werenicz told. him the <br /> 20 type of traffic his. business would increase to the mall would <br /> 21 generate more of these types of problems. <br /> 22 Mr. Heilicher told Commissioner Werenicz the vacant store next to. <br /> 23 the bar had been the only space the Apache management had offered <br /> •24 them for their arcade. Commissioner • Werenicz told him he, . for <br /> 25 one-, was dead set ' against that location especially with. -the <br /> 26 extended hours beyond the mall ' s normal closing.. . He also perceived <br /> 27 having three pool tables would most likely attract the adult <br /> 28 drinking crowd the bar next . door who could be expected to <br /> 29 . start to hang -around the arcade to play -pool which the bar doesn' t <br /> 30 have and to gamble over the" pool games, all next. to the juveniles <br /> 31 who would be playing the video games. The Commissioner _said he <br /> 32 thought this couldn' t help but lead to all kinds of problems. <br /> 33 Mr. Heilicher told him they have pool tables in .Maplewood, Har Mar <br /> 34 and Brooklyn Park and don' t experience any of. ..the problems the. <br /> 35 Commissioner was anticipating. He said his people watch the.; <br /> 36 players carefully ` to see there is no gambling, which is not . <br /> 37 permitted in the arcades. He told the Commissioner he might have <br /> 38 gotten some of his information from an officer - in Maplewood who <br /> 39 doesn't like children and had always given his establishment ."a . <br /> 40 bad rap. When he suggested the Commissioner talk to the police <br /> 41 officers who work in his establishments rather than someone on . the <br /> 42 desk, - Commissioner- Werenicz indicated his conversations ,had been . . <br /> . 43 with several . of the chief-s, investigators, and •patrol . sergeants, in <br /> 44 the eight different' depar.tments where the arcades are located. <br /> 45 Problems With 'Crowds ..Attracted , and Not - With Arcade Company' s <br /> 46 Management <br /> 13 <br />