I m 91 And The Oldest Working Police Officer In My State L.C. “Buckshot” Smith On 3/16/21 at 9:49 AM EDT
I was born and raised in Camden, Arkansas and I ve lived here all my life. If you can t live here, you can t live anywhere; it s a good town. When I was a little boy, I liked excitement and so I wanted to be a police officer or a firefighter.
I finished high school at 17 because I completed two grades in one year, and I ve been working since I was 16 years old. For a long time, I was a supervisor at a Camden furniture store, working in the shipping department and I had five or six people working beneath me there. But I d always wanted to be a police officer.