As Our Resources Will Allow

After nearly 8 years, and about 7 weeks before the primary, the City Council has discovered a new resurgence of enthusiasm for enforcing the prohibition against parking on lawns.

The ordinance itself is one of many in Jackson that are unenforceable without spending net new tax dollars. This one passed while Harvey Johnson was in office. Its been an unfunded mandate from the outset.

So the Council deemed symbolic and JPD was designated as the agency that should begin enforcing the law.

The Chief sent one of his emissaries to tell the councilmembers the same thing the Sheriff has told the Hinds County Board of Supervisors all these many years -- please get screwed.

The Wizard of McMillin doesn't plan on enforcing the law. Said Deputy Chief Lindsey Horton “We stand ready to enforce it as our resources will allow.”

Political candidates categorically disregard another of Jackson's unenforceable laws, the one that regulates the placement of campaign signs. Sheer violations of the campaign sign law, in raw numbers, probably dwarfs all of the other unenforceables.

Will the City Council take a stand?