After playing football at Penn State, Milo Hooper stepped into a police career that changed people's lives and impressions.
Working in law enforcement was the last thing Milo Hooper had in mind after a stellar football career, first at Harrisburg High School and then at Penn State, and eyeing a shot at the pros.
Early in his career, he was assigned to patrol housing units. That was about the time he met 13-year-old Rob Finley, who said Hooper changed the course of his life.“He would come to the basketball court at Downey Field where we would play football,” Finley said. “He would try to engage with us, and we would ignore him and leave because we were taught to not engage with police.”
Times were hard. Finley’s mother died of cancer when he was in the 10th grade, and his older sister dropped out of college to take care of him and his two other sisters. Finley’s father was incarcerated throughout his life. He handled citizen interactions artfully, including the time a youth ran up to his car a toy gun. Hooper knew him and told him it was dangerous during a friendly conversation. The situation could have ended differently without that relationship.
One of those officers was Andrew Cortelazzi, who joined the Harrisburg police in 2018 and worked closely with Hooper.
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