The News & Observer has the story:
Hmmm. Who was the driver’s boyfriend — Iceberg Slim?
That’s what I asked retired Highway Patrol Sgt. Carolyn Green Logan on Wednesday as she told me about a driver she once stopped for speeding on Interstate 85.“By the time I got out of my patrol car and walked up to her car, she was already taking off her top,” Logan said. “I told her ‘You can put that back on.’ “
The suddenly flustered driver explained, Logan said, that her boyfriend had instructed her to “do whatever she had to do to get out of a ticket.”
It didn’t work work then nor at any other time during Logan’s 23 years as a state Highway Patrol officer.
She and the other 48 female troopers — there were two when she joined the force in 1984 — seem like the perfect antidote for the public relations nightmare that has beset the department since it came to light a year ago that some officers view their patrol cars as motels with sirens.
Logan was the first black female state trooper and the first female officer to retire with 30 years’ law enforcement service: She served seven years on the Asheville Police Department before joining the state patrol.
At 50, she is embarking on a new chapter of her life — as soon as she figures out what that chapter is.