Ethics

Now That's New Professionalism

By Ed Brayton

Justice Scalia to the white courtesy phone, please. Here's an example of our law enforcement officers being extremely professional. While serving a warrant, they decided to play a game of bowling on the suspect's Wii:

With guns drawn and flashlights cutting through darkened rooms, Polk County undercover drug investigators stormed the home of convicted drug dealer Michael Difalco near Lakeland in March.

As investigators searched the home for drugs, some drug task force members found other ways to occupy their time. Within 20 minutes of entering Difalco's house, some of the investigators found a Wii video bowling game and began bowling frame after frame.

While some detectives hauled out evidence such as flat screen televisions and shotguns, others threw strikes, gutter balls and worked on picking up spares.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 28, 2009 (boomark / email).