Feb 03 2009
14 Year Old Cop - Hard to Understand
The other day when I read in the news paper that a fourteen year old boy passed himself off as a Chicago Police for several hours before getting his cover busted, I couldn’t believe it. He signed in, rode and partnered with another officer for about five hours. They went on a few calls even a domestic violence call. The city of
Chicago was very lucky that the officer and the fourteen year old boy didn’t get in a shoot out or other calamity in which some one could’ve been seriously injured or even killed.
It’s hard for me to understand why it took so long to blow the young man’s cover? The boy was fourteen years old; couldn’t the trained officers see that he was a child through the way he looked, acted as well as his conversation? This tells me that the Chicago Police Department needs to do more trainings with their officers to show them how to determine if another person is not a police as a result of a fourteen year old who successfully lived his dream of being a policeman for a day. Thank God that nothing dramatic happened while
Chicago was under his watch.
