Sunday, January 08, 2006

csi: cambridge

There's this poster in various stores that sell alcohol around Cambridge warning that "Police Officers May Be Posing As Store Employees." The poster contains a close-up of this especially intimidating looking gentleman who looks like he'd enjoy nothing more than hauling some underage Harvard kid off to jail and is wearing a police uniform. Granted, I'm no expert on methods of undercover law enforcement, and it could also be that the many of the students here at Harvard are so absorbed-in-their-own-stupendous-privilege that they don't notice what the guy ringing them up at the cash register is wearing, but it still seems like if I was a police officer assigned to pose as a convenience store employee I would leave my uniform at home.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sorry to be the one to tell you this. Lots and lots of people in the city of Cambridge don't go to Harvard. It's not like the Vatican State.

You ought to get out more, really.

Tom Volscho said...

but there are more privileged people per capita than in many other geographic perimeters regardless of where they actually "go to college"

jeremy said...

Anon, 9:04pm: Thanks for this, as I had been operating under the impression that every single person in the Cambridge city limits was at Harvard. This has been the source of much confusion about how the M.I.T. campus worked.

Anonymous said...

Yep. No body here in Cambridge but us Harvard/MIT students. But why leave out your Lesley neighbors? Clarify! Clarify!