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No more late-night Broadway - Strip - 2nd Avenue North drunk patrols for Officer Shawn Taylor; now he'll be running up and down Dickerson Road and cruising Rivergate Mall. Hookers and shoplifters, and not a Tennessee Titan anywhere to be found.

Why is Shawn Taylor getting booted from his regular patrol? Well, it's like this...when you bust Steve McNair in 2003, after being overheard saying you're 'gonna get him', then you bust his crazy girlfriend Sahel Kazemi just two nights before she murders him, you shouldn't be running your mouth, bragging. You have Sahel Kazemi dead to rights, driving drunk in her Escalade, and you get on your cell phone...

"Hey, Bubba! Guess who I got pulled over!" "An' the sonofabitch is drunk'ern a skunk!"

That warranted an investigation. Where there's public knowledge of an investigation, blood in the water, there's also a shiny boot lurking.

Officer Reassigned After Kazemi Stop

Police Say Decision 'Not Punitive'

Police said Shawn Taylor will be assigned to Metro police's North Precinct Patrol division.

McNair was a passenger in the car the night Kazemi, his mistress, was stopped July 2. Metro police continued an internal investigation of a phone call Taylor made to a friend right after the traffic stop. During the call, Taylor commented, "Guess who I've got stopped?" and, speaking about McNair, he said, "He's as drunk as hell."
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Taylor also stopped Titan wide receiver Chris Davis in August on suspicion of drunken driving. Davis was cut by the team shortly thereafter.

Well, just damn. But they couldn't leave Taylor working downtown, now could they? Think about it: he's becoming a liability for the Department. There's been charges leveled of RACISM!!!!111!1! by a few drunks (and a few who aren't). Officer Taylor's become a minor celebrity in his own right, known for busting Titans. It's just not feasible, or practical, for Management to leave him on the hunt downtown.

And you know the Titans just love this guy. But that had nothing to do with his reassignment. Really.

It was more of a public perception thing. People think, 'Does this guy have something against (fill in the blank)...?

Oh, and this...

In Nashville, if you drink, and drive, you're going down. Period. No matter what is your name, your game, or your color. You don't know anyone big-time enough to get you out of my brand of trouble. I'll destroy your life, and get you fired, divorced, cut, killed.

Cops rule, thugs and drunks (and near-drunks, and even .11 buzz drivers) drool.

Stay at home or call a cab, if you want to drink to excess. Or even drink enough to want to crack a smile. That cracked smile of yours won't get you anything but cuffs. There's no room on the streets for both of us.

Be very afraid of me. Every one of you.

/Officer Shawn Taylor's Gleaming Gold Badge

That's on the same level of 'edginess' as the PSA's put out by the Tennessee Governor's Highway Safety Office. Really makes you want to visit Tennessee, these...



But, who you gonna call, really?

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