"In the corner of the internet where memes and law enforcement collide, a small-town police department in Maine has become an unlikely social media star. The Clinton Police Department's Facebook page is a mix of photo edits, tongue-in-cheek winter traffic advisories ("Drive normal. Or walk home reflecting on your choices"), and patrol playlists written in the prose of an angsty, chronically online teen."
"That is, until mid-December, when inspiration struck in the form of Patrolman Caleb Proctor. The photo in question showed a uniformed Proctor perched in a desk chair like a Pete Davidson impersonator, his beanie hiked outrageously high. "It was Christmastime, and I posted, 'Ladies, stop asking Santa for the perfect man, because the elves keep trying to kidnap Auxiliary Officer Proctor,'" Conners recalled. "That took off, and it's kind of been an upward trajectory since then.""
The Clinton Police Department's Facebook page mixes photo edits, tongue-in-cheek winter traffic advisories and patrol playlists written in the prose of an angsty, chronically online teen. Cpl. Mike Conners, the department's social media manager and self-described "professional chaos coordinator," posts informal, humorous content that has attracted a following several times larger than the town's roughly 3,400 residents. A mid-December post featuring Patrolman Caleb Proctor in a desk chair and a joke about elves and kidnapping went viral and accelerated the page's growth. Recurring features include "Seen It Saturday" reminders and playful advisories, alongside clear statements that goofiness does not equate to tolerance for breaking the law.
Read at Boston.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]