CAPE CHARLES, Va. — The Cape Charles Police Department has released its law enforcement statistics for May, highlighting a range of activities and incidents within and outside town limits.
Cape Charles officers responded to a total of 124 calls for service within the town and provided assistance on 4 additional calls outside of Cape Charles. In collaboration with neighboring agencies, they assisted the Northampton County Sheriff’s Office on 3 occasions and the Virginia State Police once.
The department made a total of 7 arrests in May, including 1 felony and 6 misdemeanors. Among the charges were two counts of petit larceny, two counts of entering a vehicle to commit a crime, possession of stolen property, vandalism, and driving under the influence of drugs (DIUD).
Traffic enforcement remained a significant focus, with officers issuing 20 traffic summonses. Additionally, golf cart interactions were notably high, totaling 46 for the month. Parking enforcement also saw substantial activity with 59 tickets issued.
Officers conducted 59 building checks as part of their routine duties to ensure community safety. Foot patrols accounted for 44 hours of service, while Bay Creek patrols added another 15 hours.
In addition to their patrol and enforcement duties, all Cape Charles officers completed their RADAR/LIDAR recertification during May, ensuring continued proficiency in speed enforcement technology.
The Cape Charles Police Department remains committed to maintaining public safety through proactive enforcement and collaboration with regional law enforcement agencies.
Sounds like Cape Charles is turning itself into a haven for criminals like San Francisco.
My observation over the years is that towns either make a name for themselves, or they gain a reputation.
In the case of Cape Charles it seems it is gaining a reputation as a place where anything goes, and fornicate the people who live there and have to put up with it, which then either provokes a law enforcement backlash, as appears to be the case here, which in turn drives off the tourists to some other place where anything goes, or they do like they did in San Francisco, which is to coddle the law breakers while hobbling the police.
Be interesting as the summer develops to see which way this wind is going to blow.
You seem to have spent a lot of time in San Francisco. Since you like to talk about it so much, why don’t you go back there? Or are you a current resident?
Go back to San Francisco?
Why on earth would I want to go to San Francisco?
The place is a criminal sanctuary.
What kind of ******* MANIAC, other than a criminal looking for a safe haven would want to go to San Francisco?
Because you are a MANIAC, do you think I am one, as well?
Just curious here, Mr., Mrs,, Ms. or Mx. Maniac – were you one of those poor pitifully ignorant people here in America who totally failed reading comprehension in grade school and was passed through from grade to grade notwithstanding you couldn’t understand a single thing you were reading about, like my post above here comparing Cape Charles, Virginia with San Francisco, California?
I’m curious because I learned how to read back in either first or second grade as I recall, and so I am able to read what I have posted, and nowhere in my post do I talk about me being in San Francsico, so I wonder then how you were able to come up with your conclusion that I either was there or wanted to be there, when the fact of the matter is that I have no desire to be in crime-ridden San Francisco and at the same time, I am also glad that I am not stuck in Cape Charles where I could well find myself run down and run over, maybe dragged a bit, as well, by some underage or impaired people driving golf carts in and around Cape Charles like morons and idiots who come to Cape Charles to indulge their INNER MORON because Cape Charles has gained a reputation, like San Francisco, as a place where anything goes if you are a tourist, and fornicate you if you happen to live here and don’t like getting run down by some underage or impaired people driving golf carts in and around Cape Charles like morons and idiots who come to Cape Charles to indulge their INNER MORON, knowing full well they have nothing to fear from the Cape Charles police.
So, … all cars and trucks get traffic tickets, and golf carts get “interactions”.
Sweet.
No wonder so many underage and impaired people are driving golf carts in and around Cape Charles.
Can people with revoked or suspended OLs, juveniles, or impaired people actually drive golf carts in Cape Charles and NOT be ticketed? Does not sound right…
..and what is an “interaction”?
“Hey, Slats, dude, what it is?”
THAT is an interaction.
You get stopped on a golf cart for driving like a maniac, and you get asked if you are from Cape Charles or somewhere else, and if the answer is somewhere else, you get told to have a wonderful time, and that is how an interaction would go.
This “newspaper” should change its name to the Paul Plante Blog
Editor’s Note: If it bothers you so much, stop reading. Take up knitting. There, fixed it for you.
Dear Editor: It’s not a problem, per se. To your point, I can solve my exposure to it. But it is *pollution*. I can’t read the Cape Charles Mirror’s own content without weaving in between Paul Plante commentary and articles about absolutely nothing. It is almost as if, Dear Editor, that you encourage Mr. Plante and that you are subtly making fun of him. Dear Editor, have you carved out a part of your “newspaper” so that Mr. Plante can pollute, and so people who see what is obviously going on with Mr. Plante can laugh at his expense?
Editor’s note: If you are so low-bandwidth that you can’t figure out what you like or don’t like, don’t take it out on Paul Plante. Mr. Plante is the last bastian of stream of consciousness writing. Bro, just let it go. Take up pickle ball, that’s more your speed. What is going on here is too complex for you. Paul has been here for 9 years, he is like an ant. The Mirror loves him. You can go away now.
Is the golfcart rental business in Cape Charles legally required to check the OL’s of potential cart renters/drivers to ensure they’re not suspended, revoked, are of age, and actually competent to drive?
Do they have substantial liability insurance??
Are the renters allowed to let anyone they know use/drive the vehicle?
Must Babies and little kids be in proper child restraints?
Who is Legally Responsible for damages or injuries?
I have observed folks driving these machines that I suspect, based on my training and experience, were legally DUI.
And the really relevant question is “What are Interactions”?