Crime Watch ticketing under scrutiny in Wareham

The Police Department might be keeping quiet about it, but some former police officers are publicly accusing Crime Watch participants of issuing parking tickets in violation of state law .

[Concerned Wareham citizen]

I worked for a crime watch in Fla. for almost 7 years. All crime watch is, is the "eyes and ears of the police dept." You don't get involved. You see something wrong, you notify crime watch headqts, and they inturn notify the correct department.(ie: pot holes, missing street signs, suspicious activity, ect.)
If crime watch wants to play cops and ticket cars, let THEM drive to all parking lots in Wareham, and checkout and ticket handicap parking violators. The police don't want to do it.(and it runs rampant at Walmart, Stop & Shop, Shaws parking lots.) I've come out of Shaws on 2 occations, and had cars parked in the striped zone between handicaped spots. I had to use my pass. side door to get in my vehicle.)
I've watched patrol car go thru parking lots and totally ignore handicaped parking spots. That just isn't right.

[Robert]

Lazy cops