As the cops boarded the bus, they made their way down the aisle, taking obvious pleasure in examining the passengers.
Joe Cutrufo, who took the photo, told Gothamist the cop boarded the train with the souped-up Segway, "stood there for a minute," then just left, a process he described, fittingly, as "weird".
Last Saturday night, in the Bangalore airport, I saw the chief minister of Karnataka, Jagadish Shettar, walking slowly in the company of scurrying cops to board a plane to New Delhi.
Margaret Thatcher, prime minister through the conflict-ridden 1980s, was careful to have the cops on board when she confronted unhappy workers.
"I got a problem here on the airplane, I'm gonna need to have the cops on board.
You work your way up, covering cops, school board elections, city hall meetings, before being assigned to cover a political campaign, maybe write long-term narrative features, perhaps work on a year-long, prize-winning investigation.
Right behind the cops were city workers, scrubbing off grafitti and boarding up derelict buildings.
Instead, boarding barges and standing up to cops "sends a message to them that we mean business".
As someone who was sent off to boarding school, I'd have to cop to cliché and say Holden Caulfield.
Getting the cop on board was part of the process.
