As I drove to that location, I couldn’t hear any music from University Avenue or S. King Street. However, as soon as I got to the location of these complaints, the music was so loud I couldn’t believe it. I recall we all got out of our vehicles and scanned all of the building but couldn’t determine where the music was emanating from. Then, one of my beat partners recognized the music and identified the rock group that played that particular song.

We then realized that this was the same rock group that was putting on a concert that night at the Andrews Amphitheater. Because sound travels upwards, we couldn’t hear the music from street level, but the sound was apparently hitting the first building and bouncing off and ricocheting from building to building.

We were then notified by our radio dispatcher that numerous other loud music complaints were being received from other areas in our sector, mainly from residents living in high rise buildings located on Date Street and Kapiolani Boulevard. Later, we learned that residents living in high rises on Ala Wai Boulevard in Waikiki had also filing loud music complaints. There was even a complaint made from a resident living in a high rise near Kapahulu Avenue adjacent to Kapiolani Park.

When I went to Andrews Amphitheater to tell them to lower the noise level of the band, I was informed by the special duty HPD officers working the concert that an inspector from the health department had measured the noise levels at the beginning of the concert and found the noise levels to be in compliance with state laws. Nevertheless, I made sure the noise level was toned down before I left.

I’m not taking sides on this issue, but just bringing up an actual event that occurred at the UH Manoa campus involving a loud music complaint.