Clothes Make the Man

“I expect my deputies to be aggressive against criminals,” growls Sheriff Everett Rice of Largo, Fla. “But I don’t want them walking around looking like the Gestapo.” Effective immediately, deputies may not wear black gloves anymore because people complained they made the lawmen look like “thugs”. Officers buy their own gloves, a department spokesman said. (AP) ...No problem: before long they’ll all be changing to latex anyway.