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L.C. “Buckshot” Smith is a 91-year-old police officer based in Camden, Arkansas. He has no plan to retire.
The oldest police officer in the state, Smith drives around in an unmarked police car while doing his job.
Smith moves a little slower, but still walks the beat of his hometown four days a week.
“This badge and gun don’t make a you a police officer. You got to respect people,” Smith said.
He earned his popularity by working more than four decades for the Ouachita County Sheriff’s Department, here he went by his childhood nickname “Buckshot.”
After 46 years as a deputy, he retired — for only five months. He said he didn’t have any fun during those five months. “I don’t hunt. I don’t fish.”
So in his 80s, he became a rookie Camden cop. He carries a firearm, but he doesn’t have to use it. Mayor Julian Lott said Smith has a more powerful weapon.
“He knows your mama and he knew your grandmother. So he has the authority to speak into our lives,” Lott said.
Over the course of his career, Smith said he has “taken more people home than I’ve taken to them to jail.”
“He does not want to retire. In his words, to me, he’ll retire when the good Lord tells him to,” said chief Boyd Woody.
Until then, Smith plans to keep rolling and patrolling.
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