The cop was dumber than a post, simple as that.
Cops on "Reno 911" are smarter, which is ridiculously sad.

And for those of you here that have said the prison escapee was 'a good BS'er'? You are all complete FUCKING morons, and are even dumber than that retarded cop. He wasn't a good BS'er at all, any intelligent being such as myself could see a mile away that he was full of shit, and was highly suspicious right off the bat.
I don't feel sorry for the 'officer' (term used loosely), in fact, his dumb ass got fired immediately the following week.