Ask and ye shall receive, right? Some Chevy Chase residents are wishing it weren’t so. Residents of the Northwest neighborhood are a little angry that increased police patrols — caused by a rash of thefts — have led to a higer number of parking tickets, or so writes the Washington Times. And what does the police have to say about that? Writes the Times:

An official in the police department’s 2nd District, which includes Chevy Chase, said officers walk the neighborhood for several hours overnight and must have something to show for their work. When no crimes are being committed and there are no criminals to arrest, he said, ticketing illegally parked cars is productive work. “They have to show some type of productivity during the night,” Capt. Willie Smith said. “We have anywhere from 30 to 40 officers working all night in the Second District, and there’s two to four in that [area]. If they come in without any tickets, no arrests, no truck stops…they could be challenged by their superiors.”

Our solution? Give those cops something else to work for — start committing more crimes.

UVa Students Demand Higher Wages for Employees: This may be a little further away than our usual fare, but is still worth noting. Seventeen University of Virginia students were arrested on Saturday night for occupying a campus building as part of a demonstration to demand higher wages for university employees, reports the Post. The arrests did nothing to stem interest in the cause, though — a large rally in support of the students and the cause is set for today. Students are demanding that employees be paid at least $10.72 an hour, and increase from the current pay of $9.37 an hour. Last year Georgetown University students similarly staged protests in support of a living wage, emerging victorious after a nine day hunger strike.

Arlington Sewage Plant Art Project Put Aside: A $650,000 project to beautify a sewage plant along Route 1 in Arlington has been put aside, writes WJLA. Three years ago the county hired an artist to give the plant a makeover, which was set to include a fern garden, flowering vines, fountains and rain gardens. The project was abandoned recently due to $60 million in expansions set to be completed on the plant by the December 2007.

Angelos Defends Broadcasting of Nats Games: Proving that he’s still a little peeved that the Nationals came to Washington, Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos on Friday defended his right to profit from airing Nats games, many of which cannot be viewed in the Washington area, notes NBC 4. Upon being questioned about the deal he engineered to keep Nats games off of the airwaves, Angelos replied, “A home television territory that from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in central Pennsylvania, down through all of Maryland, all of Delaware, all of D.C., all of Virginia, 13 counties in West Virginia and half of North Carolina…I’m telling you what we purchased, we paid for. This is our territory.”

Briefly Noted: Cab driver shot at Dunn Loring Metro station … Vincent Gray criticizes opponents over new hospital … Bush family took in Easter at Camp David … Today is the Easter Egg Roll at the White House.

This Day in DCist: This day last year was a Sunday, so we were taking it easy. We did manage to make it down to RFK for a Nats game, realizing that logistics were one of those details that game planners had overlooked.

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