New Jersey's most famous dancing cop was honored on Friday by the South Orange Police Department as he gets ready to step into retirement.
Officer Butch Larkin was honored on Friday by the South Orange Police Department as he gets ready to step into retirement. He's been directing traffic with some twists and spins for nearly 30 years and has been on the force for 58 years.
Larkin was born in 1940 and is an army veteran.The first was in 1963 until 1993 and then he rejoined as a traffic control officer in 1997, where he directed cars and people with flair, until earlier this month. "I love people and that's how I show it. I always wanted to be a police officer. I found my opportunity to do it years ago," Larkin said."It's easy to get drivers really mad at you for holding them up a little bit too long, for not seeing someone else that was there. And so you can take from him because he does this like it's nothing to him and it's a good training experience to watch him, to see how he does it and just take off from that," Acevedo said. "If we're out there, everybody is asking where Butch is. He's South Orange," Sgt. Nicholas Lonero said."It was time for him to leave and he wanted to go out on a good note," his wife Sadie, said. As for Larkin's next act, he plans to spend his retirement in Florida and hopes to continue spreading joy.Have a breaking news tip or an idea for a story we should cover? Send it to Eyewitness News using the form below. If attaching a video or photo,New York City Council passes measure for protest buffer zones at houses of worship
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