💧 A Crooked Cop at Christmas

[Making use of Safe Exchange Zones at police stations actually is a smart idea.]
The Boston Police Department recently shared some holiday and package delivery safety tips, including the wise suggestion that you be home when a delivery arrives. Clever! Fairly obvious recommendations aside, what really caught my eye was this accompanying image:

This picture seemed to be showing a package thief dressed as the Grinch. Prominently featured on the Grinch’s sleeve, however, is a BPD patch. Why?! Why on earth did they make the Grinch a Boston Police Department employee, while also having it carry out crimes?

I thought perhaps they had simply Photoshopped the patch onto a stock image, but no. This is actually a still from an entire video.1. In it, the Grinch has a patch on both sleeves, and there’s just no way to make that make sense.

They took the time to attach TWO patches to this Grinch suit. While that was being done, surely someone could have stopped to say “Wait, why are we making the Grinch a cop?”.

Footnotes:

The full video is archived here, and I cannot stress enough that you should not watch it. ↩︎