Summary
Forget about the "buddy cop" duos from "Starsky and Hutch," "Miami Vice" and "Lethal Weapon." Meet the real, small-town version: Columbia police Officers Tim Giger and Jon Logan.
Giger and Logan are the go-to guys within the Columbia Police Department for information about central Columbia and the city's black community. They don't respond to most police calls, instead patrolling historically crime-ridden areas, such as the Garth Avenue corridor and areas stretching from West Boulevard east to North College Avenue and from Business Loop 70 south to Broadway.See the full content of this document
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Buddy Cops
"We don't take calls for service; we're kind of a go-to team if they're looking for somebody, if they need someone picked up, if they need a house looked at," Logan said.
Many of their duties simply involve talking with residents and conducting traffic stops - a lot of them. On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Giger drove his black-and-white patrol car along West Worley Street while Logan typed in license plate numbers from nearby cars, looking for active warrants in a police...See the full content of this document
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