Cleveland's retired 'supercop' get low-key patrol

CLEVELAND (AP) — The 40-year police veteran known as Cleveland’s “Supercop” retired last year but has returned to work patrolling a community of about 400 people.

Sixty-four-year-old James Simone now patrols Grand River, a low-key Lake County community where he says people wave with all five fingers.

Simone developed a tough-cop reputation during a career in which he killed five suspects, all ruled justifiable. He’s been shot multiple times.

He tells The Plain Dealer that he has a “ATM” policy with suspects: “Ask them. Tell them. Make them.”

His critics questioned whether some of his shootings could have been avoided.

Simone has arrested three people since going to work part-time in Grand River last August. He used to arrest that many people on a busy day in Cleveland.