Yes, Kerns was there along with the thousands of dollars worth of cops (all paid overtime by the Block Party, a significant part of the budget). As the popular sports segment says, he had One Job. In this case, it was to keep people from trespassing onto the railroad tracks. Naturally, chief kerns stood there and watched dozens of people congregate on the tracks and left it up to the volunteers to prevent a tragedy.

When it comes to EPD, you just can't make this stuff up. In that vein, the incompetent traffic engineer who is in charge of the railroad quiet zone claims we will be able to keep people off the tracks with enforcement. If paying EPD specifically for that task results in no enforcement, how exactly is one to believe it will work as part of their "regular" duties? Anyone on the tracks will cause the so-called quiet zone to fill with train horns. The sound you hear will be the sound of failure.