General Categories > Newsworthy
Lincoln Police Seize switchblades at gun show
bk09:
--- Quote from: jthhapkido on February 01, 2012, 10:42:49 AM ---Yes, the article (or the police captain) is just flat out wrong.
What is interesting to me is that I pulled up the GIS map of the city limits for Lincoln---and the place where the gun show was held is significantly outside them. So....according to http://ags.lincoln.ne.gov/gisviewer/ since he wasn't in the city limits, those ordinances shouldn't matter. (And the cop was outside her jurisdiction.) The GIS mapping function is online from the Nebraska Department of Roads.
So---what am I missing? How can LPD tell the promoter anything, when the Lancaster Events Center is outside their jurisdiction?
Granted, if the LPD thinks that switchblades are illegal anywhere in the state, that explains a lot. (A LOT!) But if they actually knew the law...what am I missing? Have the Lincoln city limits expanded such that the NE Dept of Roads doesn't have it right on their maps?
--- End quote ---
To me it looked like half that property was within city limits. Touching 84th and right south of Havelock.
dkarp:
Actually it does look like the event center is within the city boundaries-zoom in closer and you can see the outline of the building. It is within the same "color area" as, for example, 70th and Havelock..
JTH:
--- Quote from: dkarp on February 01, 2012, 10:51:14 AM ---Actually it does look like the event center is within the city boundaries-zoom in closer and you can see the outline of the building. It is within the same "color area" as, for example, 70th and Havelock..
--- End quote ---
...and you guys are right, because I can't read a map. :(
At least the captain was still wrong about this being a state issue vs a city issue. :)
Gunscribe:
Some cities in Nebraska, Lincoln being one of them, have the statutory authority to enforce some, if not all, ordinances up to three miles beyond the physical city limits.
metaldoc:
--- Quote from: Gunscribe on February 01, 2012, 11:10:58 AM ---Some cities in Nebraska, Lincoln being one of them, have the statutory authority to enforce some, if not all, ordinances up to three miles beyond the physical city limits.
--- End quote ---
I know a two mile zone exists beyond city limits for zoning purposes for cities wishing to utilize that statutory exemption given them by the state, but wasn't aware that city ordinances could be enforced as well. Not saying it isn't so. Can you point to that in Nebraksa law. That distinction could get a lot of people inadvertently in trouble.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version