The Idiot Of The Week

And thanks to this tool, it is yet another black eye for the Philadelphia Police Department. Remember kids, just because someone is a police officer doesn't mean that he or she is not a dope. Inside the locker of a narcotics cop, Philadelphia police officials recently made a shocking discovery: A cartoon of a man, half as an officer in uniform and half as a Klansman with the words: "Blue By Day - White By Night. White Power," according to police officials. The officer, Scott Schweizer, who has arrested countless drug suspects in predominantly African-American neighborhoods, was removed from his undercover police duties and given a desk job earlier this month, authorities said. The disturbing find triggered an internal probe that widened yesterday as investigators began to explore whether the scope of the case is limited to Schweizer or somehow broader. "It's certainly of great concern that someone would even think it's appropriate or think it's OK to even put something like that in a locker," Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said yesterday. "We don't condone that kind of behavior." (H/T - The Philadelphia Daily News) I worked with Scott several years ago when I was in patrol, and he never came off as being this stupid. Whatever an officer does in the privacy of his own home is none of my business, no matter how idiotic it may be, but to post something like this in his locker is simply insane. Did he not think anyone else would see it? And now, even if he is cleared in the investigation, he will always have people thinking he is a racist. Dumb.