LETTER SENT TO CAMBRIDGE POLICE CHIEF

Dear Sir:

The enclosed tag is returned, with the information requested, under the strongest possible protest. I refuse to acknowledge it as a validly authorized or validly issued parking ticket, and I maintain that as far as my record of parking violations is concerned, I have incurred none and my record is clear.

Here are my reasons, and I defy you to refute them: 1) My car was parked on the north-bound side of Oxford Street, at the very end of the street, that is, it was parked beyond the borders of Cambridge. It was parked in Somerville. Your police had no right to ticket me there.

2) There is a clause in the Constitution of the United States which requires equal protection of the laws. Last night the police ticketed only the students' cars and other out-of-state cars. I have never heard of such inequitable, such lawless, enforcement of the law. I am a Harvard Law School student, I am a law-abiding American. Louis Altman.