Well, this is a web forum for opinions and there's a lot of them. I would like to express mine: this is possibly the most counter-productive thing I've heard of.
Let's start collecting evidence and documenting one side of stories in a publicly-accessible format, with no control over what people post, about the one group (bike cops) within a larger faction (police) that we really need good relationships with; further, that we need more than they need us.
How many times do we (as a group) recoil when we read a newspaper comment that says, Last Wednesday I saw a bike run a red light, Hey they should all stay off the roads?
Now, sitting on the grass eating a sandwich, you saw a cop riding contraflow in a no-traffic situation (which is something I did myself a few times today) and you're going to smear a group over an individual, assume you have the whole story, and play shitty web games with a group that's our bridge to an important stakeholder?
These are the people who decide what story goes into the accident reports. You're going to solicit and publish unverified reports of unprofessional behavior, because it's your place to make reminders?
Can I remind you that a Pittsburgh Police Officer was run over while trying to make Penn Avenue safer for bicyclists?
Can I remind you that today was Labor Day, a celebration of the working american, and somehow a bunch of people with the day off sitting in the park decided to focus on a working man who might have taken the same shortcut that I took myself a few times today?
With true respect, who made it anybody's job to give polite reminders, when we can't "police" (sorry) our own? Are "we" going to give polite reminders to bicyclists not wearing helmets? Reminders to bicyclists using cellphones? Reminders to bike ninjas, people with (gasp) no brakes, cyclists blowing stop signs? (I mean, this ain't Indiana)
I want cops on bikes. I want drivers to see cops on bikes. Cops on bikes is where our Venn diagram overlaps the Man's.
I cannot support this suggested activity. We are not the Bike Police QA / IA department.
The most polite expression I can offer is: this is truly unwise. Please reconsider.
"Post Murals, Not Bike Cops"
Peace Out, V.
ps- taken after today's RideOfSilence, two sides of the same building:

