During Pope Benedict XVI's recent visit, 23 patrolled the skies, at one point receiving a call from officers who had spotted a suspicious man with a camera on a rooftop near the pontiff's residence. Diaz radioed back that it was a false alarm.

"There was a modeling shoot going on," he said.

Arrest the wrong person? Our police? That never happens.

Tom Hayes, AP writer, did his job. He got a quote from one civil libertarian.
- tom moody 5-29-2008 4:50 pm