Cop Greets Little Girl by the Window Daily, One Day She Doesn’t Show Up So He Checks Her House — Story of the Day

A police officer developed a close relationship with a little girl he always saw by the window while he was on patrol, but one day, she wasn’t there.

Ben Murphy was one of the police officers assigned to keep the peace in the poor neighborhood of Millington. Ben liked his job as a police officer and to him, wearing the badge was an honor.

He came from a long line of police officers; his father’s career had been a successful one, but Ben was not impressed by it because he knew his father had risen up the ranks so quickly because he was a dirty cop.

When the man died in a planned revenge attack, Ben had no tears to shed. He had been proven right — it was more honorable to do the right thing. That’s what he thought when Rodney Jacobs, his partner then, had approached him with an under-the-table deal.

“Hey Ben, my buddy, don’t you look absolutely rosy this morning,” Rodney said on that bright morning.

Ben liked to wear colorful clothing because colors pleased him, and Rodney enjoyed calling him out on it in his jokes.

“Hey Rodney,” Ben groaned. “It’s too early to be teasing don’t you think?”

“Look buddy, I wanted to run something by you, it’s about the fiasco with the gang leader we’re investigating.”

That had Ben’s attention. At the time of their conversation, he and Rodney had been trying to arrest a crime boss who seemed to have influence within the justice structure.

“What about it?” he asked. “Any new leads?”

“No, that’s what I wanted to talk about. We will have to do a lot more investigative work trying to figure out the case but his people are ready to pay handsomely if we pin his latest crime on someone else,” Rodney had said.

Ben had not been comfortable with that. He wanted to put the man behind bars for a long time to punish him for his crimes.

“It’s only right that he faces the consequences of his actions Rod, the world will be better for it. We can’t let monsters like him keep roaming the streets. What if it was your daughter he was accused of drugging and raping tomorrow.”

“I’m doing this for my family Ben, I’m not asking you to commit a...