To snitch or not to snitch? Is proposed parking scofflaw law a good idea?

This is a tough one.

As a rule, I’m not a on-this-hand, on-the-other kind of columnist. That’s chicken ... umm ... bleep. My job is to not equivocate but make a stand. If you’re going to take Vienna, as Napoleon said, take Vienna. No half measures.

But regarding the ordinance Ald. Daniel La Spata (1st) outlined in Fran Spielman’s article Thursday, allowing Chicagoans to take photos and turn in commercial vehicles violating parking ordinances, leaving their big blue electric Prime vans in bike lanes and crosswalks, well, I’m torn here.

It’s good that it’s being delayed, so the issues can be weighed.

On the one hand, as a former avid city cyclist, in my younger days — for years after the Divvy system rolled out, I wrote a periodic “Divvy Diary” recounting the joys of blasting those big b