If anything, filming provides a diversion for Sear-Brown employees and customers. One conference room faces onto the street. But others are less amused. Neighbors of some Avenues addresses are so fed up with the constant filming, Ridd no longer permits shooting at those homes. To mitigate residents' inconvenience, and their own headaches, production companies now have started directing extras to park in school and church parking lots and pay for on-street parking commandeered by their projects.
Officers wear their uniforms and take their cruisers to control traffic and pedestrians.
Film companies pay the officers' insurance and salaries. Officers are allowed to use their cars and uniforms only for security jobs in the city limits. And officers are free to leave to respond to emergencies. Dana Orgill says officers moonlighting as film security guards deter crime elsewhere in the city. We've got more police out there.