His family operated funeral homes in East St. Louis for years. It was about the only profitable business there other than liquor stores. The city had nothing, but Officer drove around in big cars with a gaggle of body guards. He robbed the place blind. If I recall correctly, he was ultimately picked up for speeding while drunk, drugged or both and, by that time, he was such a disaster nothing could help him. After I posted, I thought about the fact that he has a 3 year old and wondered if maybe he hadn't turned his life around. I hope he has.
I wished I would've known that before reading the post!
I remember newspaper stories about him speeding from bar to bar with his body guards, who carried real Uzis, and intimidated people with their weapons.
His funeral home would throw dead children in the dumpster behind the building just as soon as the services were over in order to resell the coffins.
Officer's best friend, and biggest supporter, was a cocaine-dealing minister of a church with eight members, who had a Lincoln Continental for every day of the week, and millions in the church fund.
The state police had to come in and take over East St. Louis to clean up Officer's mess. Voters gave him the boot after his first term.