George Bendt’s life story makes a perfect movie script

The old black-and-white photograph could be a scene out of the 1950s television series “Dragnet.” Four police officers stand smiling behind a metal desk stacked high with brown paper packages full of marijuana, celebrating the spoils of a massive drug bust. Looking at their suit coats and fedora hats and the pipe jutting out of one officer’s mouth, it seems Sergeant Joe Friday could come through the door at any moment. For George Bendt, it was just another day in a long and rewarding career on the Minneapolis police force.

By: Jana Peterson, Pine Journal