Top cop found with pot
Last weekend, yet another cop allegedly broke the law. Cmdr. Wesley Scott, 47, was Cicero’s first black police officer, according to the Chicago Tribune. This garnered him both criticism from some camps and praise from others—like Time magazine.
All this could be lost if Scott fails a drug test. You see, while he was rolling in the neighborhood he was allegedly rolling something else—pot. Officers pulled him over for running a stop sign and found the remnants of a roach—and not the creepy crawly kind.
Apparently, Scott is an exemplary cop who has done a lot of good in the neighborhood. So, maybe the law will go easy on him.
Other cops have gotten away with similar escapades—take Edward Sanchez, a police officer from Dearborn, Mich. who arrested someone for possession, confiscated the marijuana, baked it into brownies and then called 911 in a drug-induced panic to proclaim: “We made brownies and I think we’re dead, I really do.”
Sanchez resigned, but no charges were pressed. The video of his 911 call, however, made him an Internet star.
Do you think that Scott’s track record as a good cop and good citizen should save him from reproof? Or do you think that he should get his just desserts (excluding brownies, of course)?
