Ben Mathis-Lilley has a
Slate article about another clueless cop:
Author, UPenn alum, and former major league baseball player Doug Glanville (photo) writes in the Atlantic today about being approached by a police officer who suspected him of illegally soliciting work as an itinerant laborer while he was shoveling his own driveway in a well-to-do part of Hartford, Connecticut:
A police officer from West Hartford had pulled up across the street, exited his vehicle, and begun walking in my direction. I noted the strangeness of his being in Hartford— an entirely separate town with its own police force— so I thought he needed help. He approached me with purpose, and then, without any introduction or explanation, he asked: “So, you trying to make a few extra bucks, shoveling people’s driveways around here?”
Glanville reacted calmly and tried to use the incident as a learning opportunity, eventually meeting with the mayor and police chief of West Hartford, the affluent suburb near his home, whose police were allegedly following up on a tip about illegal door-to-door solicitation when they approached him. Read the whole piece at the Atlantic's site; it's worth it just for the half-uplifting, half-heartbreaking final line.
Rico says that
there's a cop headed for an early retirement...
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