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"Old School"...he talks like the officers I grew up with. In my case, I think some of it could be attributed to the fact that they knew pretty much everyone in the county personally...the Highway Patrolmen didn't rotate in and out...most of them lived and worked here for most of their careers...they ate lunch with us at the same cafes everyday...their kids went to school with us...they went to church with us... they were a part of the community just like everyone else, and when you have that kind of connection, things are just different. We had one HP officer (retired 15 years ago and still lives and farms here) who was notorious for ALWAYS writing a ticket if he stopped you....even wrote his wife one for slow rolling a stop sign in town one day)...but he always just talked and laughed with you while he was doing it, and I never heard anyone say he gave them a ticket they didn't deserve. What's amazing in Officer Eltons case, is he somehow manages to do that in a metro area, where he doesn't have those personal connections. Kudo's to him!