bobby

He met his wife, Mary Lou, in 1956, brunette and pretty, wearing bobby socks at a fraternity mixer at Michigan State.

“Tight as a drum”, was how the local beat bobby described the people on his patch.

"Maybe it needs to go back to more bobbies on the beat, panda cars driving around and just keeping an eye on things - because this person, he's still around."

She found a lot of rusty bobby pins, empty paper cups, and dust bunnies.

But the report finds bobbies who should be on the beat are behind desks, backfilling for civilian support staff who have been stripped out.