by George Gramlich
Over coffee at the 16th Street Cafe last week, I asked Cañon City Police Department Deputy Chief Allen Cooper what got him interested in law enforcement. It was an interesting short story. When he was around 20 years old he had a hot rod Ford Galaxy 500 and was speeding quite a lot with it around Fremont County. He was stopped for speeding (the third time in a short while) by a Colorado State Patrol Trooper. Instead of a ticket, the trooper gave Allen the “fatherly” lecture on where he was headed in life and that he has a couple of alternatives to consider. That trooper’s talk planted a seed in Allen that sprouted several years later. Continue reading Allen Cooper: Candidate for Fremont County Sheriff →