Sigh...

[Evan]

Police presence at the car show would not be a good thing IMO, for many reasons.

Why not? Its a deterrent to theft and jackassery. If the show goes smoothly, its good for the club's reputation in the eyes of the univeristy and HPD.

It also promotes that MM is a safe organization and wants to be involved with the community, rather than a "kr3w" that hates "the man".

If we invite HPD and JMU PD to the car show, and the event runs smoothly, i really do not think they're going to pull people over on the way out. They dont hate JMU students and they wpmt be out to pad their quotas.

You are looking at it in a "big happy family" bed-of-roses perspective, which would be great in theory, but from my experience of living in harrisonburg it has little chance of happening that way.

The situation that Mike said may not be far from reality.
Harrisonburg and HPD see the students of JMU as a nusiance at best, not as respected members of the community. Numerous evidence of this over the years, not to mention the attitude every student gets from PD and the community in general. I really dont see inviting them to the car show as changing that attitude, and I dont think its out of the question to think that they could be marking down cars for infractions/laws.

And perhaps more importantly, the import and car show crowd is a paranoid bunch. Put some cops at the show and they will probably be spooked, might leave or might not come back next year.

A Campus police presence would be much better from both perspectives, and do every bit as good as far as curbing the jackassery.