This is Why We Have Academies

It’s one thing for kids (like myself) to admire the police and want to work in Law Enforcement. It’s another thing to dress up as Sheriff’s Deputies and conduct traffic stops. This kind of stuff actually happens with regularity, in one form or another. Usually the impersonators are up to no good, but it seems in this case that these kids were genuinely trying to enforce the law.

I’m hoping that somebody somewhere really failed in educating these youngsters, because why else would kids (who seem to be so preoccupied with public safety) not know by their late teens that impersonating police officers is a crime? Not only that, but why weren’t they taught that normal people in general don’t just go about pretending to be something they aren’t? Hopefully this was just a crime of ignorant enthusiasm rather than a premeditated impersonation.