Police Use Iconic 'Bad Cop' Routine To Scare Naughty 13-Year-Old Straight
When Officer Brandon McGhee of Jeffersonville, Indiana, first heard that his next call involved a 13-year-old boy, he was shocked. The boy had jumped on his mother’s boyfriend.
“I’m assuming her boyfriend must be extremely small and she has a ginormous 13-year-old, or something of that nature, but like every situation you never know until you get there,” he said.
As soon as Officer McGhee and his partner walked up to the apartment complex, the young teen began pleading his case right away. “I didn’t do nothing. It was him,” the boy, Miles, claimed.
McGhee was quick to make sure the boy knew who was in charge. He told him to stop talking as he approached the mother and boyfriend to find out more information.
According to his mother and her boyfriend, Miles had also threatened to get his knife and “cut everything up.” He was threatening to break the TV and destroy other things.
His mother was at the end of her rope. “He just too much for me tonight,” she told the officer.
After talking to the couple, Officer McGhee knew exactly what to do.
He walked over to where the teen was waiting and told him to stand up, not giving him any room to talk back or pass blame; he had officially turned into a “Bad Cop.”
Miles was handcuffed and placed in the back of the squad car. As far as he knew, he was going to the nearest Juvenile Detention Center.
Officer McGhee then walked back over to the mother and explained that he actually had no intention of taking her son to JDC. In fact, he was going to tell the boy that she had talked the officers out of doing just that.
This way the boy would gain an appreciation for his mother. “The thought of going is actually worse than going,” he told them.
After letting the teen worry about his fate for a few minutes, the officers opened the car door and asked him why he wasn’t listening to his mom.
The boy claimed that his actions were because he was bored.
“You have not been doing what you need to be doing or else we would not be in this situation,” Officer McGhee began, not allowing Miles to talk back.
He then told the teen if there is that next time, there would not be as much grace; he would be going straight to JDC.
He asked, “If I were you, I would start getting my life on track because if you don’t have mom who do you have?”
“No one,” Miles answered with his head hung.
The officer let the boy out of the car, removed his cuffs, and took him back to his mother.
Officer McGhee said, “The main thing is that you need to show the children that they’re not in charge so they start listening to mom and dad. If they don’t, then they’re going to go to JDC.”
Because of this officer’s keen discernment, Miles learned a big life lesson. One that he hopefully keeps in mind next time he’s “bored.”
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