Am I On COPS??
It was Friday and I left work much like any other day. As I was driving home I heard sirens and saw a few lights behind me in downtown Cedar Rapids. I was stopped at a stop sign when two CRPD squad cars came flying down the street past me. It was then that I realized something was going on. As I continued to the stoplight ahead, I saw officers sprinting past me and even more cars flying down the street. They were all flocking to the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art - which was RIGHT WHERE I WAS SITTING AT THE STOPLIGHT. I froze as even more cars - both marked and unmarked came to screeching halts all around me and officers got out and ran.
It was like I was in the middle of an episode of COPS. I had never been in the middle of anything like this before. I had no idea what was happening, but when I got home I found out the bank down the street from where I was at had been robbed and police were in pursuit of the bad guy. They caught him (thanks to witnesses who told them where he ran). I can honestly say, the way the police were so focused and responded so quickly, I have never felt so safe. Kudos to the CRPD!