The conscientious cop

On Sunday morning, I went to the gym about 7 am. Across the street, there was a cop car stopped in front of CocoWalk and his red and blue emergency lights were blasting away on top of his car. He was giving a ticket to a driver who was stopped in front of him. What was odd was that there is no traffic at that time and they were blocking a lane of traffic. I think the cop would normally have had the guy pull off the road if they were blocking traffic. So he was giving the driver a ticket, most likely for blowing passed stop sign at Grand and Virginia, which people do daily.

For the next little bit of time, the cop drove around the Center Grove. Just checking things out, which is a good thing. He was his own security patrol. A bit later, as I was coming around the block, I saw him coming toward me and the lights were on again. No one else was on the road, and I wondered what I had done.

It turns out that there was some activity with cars and/or vans at the loading dock at the Mayfair on Mary Street. This was interesting to me because I didn't notice it and most people wouldn't and if there was some shady business going on at that early hour on a weekend, most people wouldn't notice.

I liked the fact that this cop stopped to check it out. Were those people robbing the place? What were they doing at 7:00 am in the loading dock with what looked liked three vehicles.

I'm not sure why the cop felt the need to light up the emergency lights atop his car to stop and check out the loading dock situation. But it made me laugh because the cop is a small guy and perhaps the lights give him a bigger presence.

Either way, I was glad to see that someone is that conscientious on the police force and protecting the neighborhood early Sunday morning and hopefully at all times of the day and night. I didn't stop to ask his name or ask him what he was doing because I feared getting a ticket for not minding my own business. He means business.