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Posted: 1/25/2009 11:40:41 PM EST
You have got to be kidding me.  Every officer who had contact with him and didn't 'detect" that he was fake should be fired.

Wannabe officer, 14, dupes Chicago police
By MICHAEL TARM | Associated Press Writer
7:54 PM CST, January 25, 2009
CHICAGO - A 14-year-old aspiring police officer donned a uniform, walked into a Chicago police station and managed to get an assignment –– patrolling in a squad car for five hours before he was detected, police said Sunday.

The boy did not have a gun, never issued any tickets and didn't drive the squad car, Deputy Superintendent Daniel Dugan said.

Assistant Superintendent James Jackson said the ruse was discovered only after the boy's patrol with an actual officer ended Saturday. Officers noticed his uniform lacked a star that is part of the regulation uniform.

"He clearly has a keen desire to be a police officer," Jackson said.



Police said they were investigating how the deception went undetected for so long in what they described as a serious security breach.

Police didn't identify the boy because of his age. He has been charged as a juvenile with impersonating an officer.

Dugan said the boy looks older than 14 and was motivated only by a desire to be an officer, not malice or "ill intent."

The boy once took part in a Chicago program for youth interested in policing, so he would have been familiar with some procedures, perhaps helping him blend in, police spokeswoman Monique Bond said.

But police said they couldn't explain how the boy managed to walk into the Third District station, or why no one noticed he was too young to be an officer.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-boy-fakeofficer,0,4309412.story
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 11:46:35 PM EST
[#1]
Willing to break the law to be a cop.



Hmm...

Link Posted: 1/25/2009 11:46:41 PM EST
[#2]
WTF???  Are you serious? No one noticed he didn't have a weapon?  Nevermind the fact that he is 14...I have a feeling that he will work for some alphabet agency sometime in the relatively near future due to his keen ability to deceive those around him, as well as his willingness to break the law in order to enforce it.


-Ben
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 11:48:00 PM EST
[#3]
So every guy that has sex with a female minor with a fake ID should be sent to prison for life?  The article does say the kid looks older than 14.

I will agree with you that it does sound like people screwed up but the devil is in the details - something that article is seriously lacking.

Brian
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 11:49:15 PM EST
[#4]
Thats actually kind of awesome. The kid is obviously good at impersenating people and should be encouraged to go into police work and maybe look into doing undercover stuff.
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 11:52:50 PM EST
[#5]
Quoted:
So every guy that has sex with a female minor with a fake ID should be sent to prison for life?  The article does say the kid looks older than 14.

I will agree with you that it does sound like people screwed up but the devil is in the details - something that article is seriously lacking.

Brian


What does sex have anything to do with this?

He impersonated a cop & went on patrol as if he was one....

What if his squad had actually been called to respond to an incedent?
Link Posted: 1/25/2009 11:54:44 PM EST
[#6]
It is a good thing that he did not become involved in an incident where his "partner" would have needed him to use the gun or training that he didn't have, to protect someone.
Link Posted: 1/26/2009 2:37:12 AM EST
[#7]
Quoted:
Willing to break the law to be a cop.

Hmm...


That'd be technically correct for a CHICAGO cop, wouldn't it?


The tales of corruption among Chicago police are legendary.  

Might as well start 'em out young,  eh?


CJ
Link Posted: 1/26/2009 3:10:35 AM EST
[#8]
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