If you want to know whether Union's new bike patrols are meeting
one of their main objectives – enhancing community relations – just ask Officer
Ed Teller.
“I talked to more people in the first three days than I have in the last three
months,” he said at the end of his first week on the bike.
Fellow Officer Joe Glasser, who rides the 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. shift, says that patrols are
meeting another important objective – safety. He says he has escorted a number of
students who were grateful for the company while walking or riding their bikes at night.
Teller and Glasser admit to a few sore muscles and some very sound sleeping once the
shift is over. But this week, they say, they're adjusting to life in the saddle.
One problem they haven't tackled yet: angry dogs like the one that took off after
Teller as he rode away from Tuesday's press conference on Seward Place.