If a 14 year-old shows up as a Chicago police station wearing a police-like uniform shouldn't someone notice he's not a real cop? Apparently not. Should the kid be the one in trouble? Apparently so.
Such was the case two Saturdays ago when a boy walked into the station wearing what resembled an officer's uniform. He was told to go to the patrol room and then assigned to man a patrol car with another officer. The boy willingly obliged and spent the next five hours securing the city's streets, then returned to the station. Only back in the squad room, after five hours on the job, did officers realize that the boy's uniform wasn't legit: the star featured by regulation uniforms was missing.
The Chicago PD bumbled any coherent explanation for how the boy went undetected so long. Saying only that he looked older than 14 and had once taken part in a youth program sponsored by the department that would've familiarized him with some of the procedures.
Aren't these cops trained to detect crime? To look for things that appear amiss? Not only was the kid not wearing a department issue uniform, he wasn't even carrying a guy. Why wouldn't the partner he spent five hours with notice a missing gun or the fact that they were wearing different uniforms or that he'd never seen the kid before? I'm glad I don't live in Chicago.
Monday, February 2, 2009
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