“We don’t write a lot of those tickets anyway because we know they can’t pay it. We want them to get off the median so that they’re not out there causing accidents and becoming parts of accidents.”
– Maj. Dexter Nelson of the Oklahoma City Police Department, on the city’s anti-panhandling ordinance. Nelson says that police are distributing informational sheets on the ordinance in lieu of writing tickets for the first 30 days the law is in effect (Source).