--- title: Policeman Receives Noise Complaint, Joins Basketball Game description: Officer Bobby White arrived on the scene to find a couple of boys shooting hoops and got out of his squad car to join them. canonical: https://time.com/4190385/police-officer-receives-noise-complaint-joins-basketball-game/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-22T19:54:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:06.411Z og:title: Police Officer Had the Best Response to a Complaint About Kids Playing Basketball og:description: "You believe someone's calling to complain about kids playing basketball in the street?" og:url: https://time.com/4190385/police-officer-receives-noise-complaint-joins-basketball-game/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Police Officer Had the Best Response to a Complaint About Kids Playing Basketball twitter:description: "You believe someone's calling to complain about kids playing basketball in the street?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Police Officer Had the Best Response to a Complaint About Kids Playing Basketball > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 22, 2016 7:54 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 22, 2016 7:54 PM UTC When the Gainesville Police Department received a call complaining about kids [playing basketball](http://time.com/4160074/one-handed-college-basketball-player-scores-his-first-shot/) too “loudly” in the streets, Officer Bobby White was dispatched to scope out the situation. He arrived on the scene to find a couple of boys shooting hoops and [got out of his squad car to join them](http://time.com/4066546/whip-nae-nae-san-diego-police/). “You believe someone’s calling to complain about kids playing basketball in the street?” he asked one of them. “I don’t know who called, but obviously, I ain’t got no problem with it.” White then challenged the pair to a game of pickup, with other kids joining in as time went on. After about 10 minutes, the officer told them he had to go, but that he’d be back the next day with backup for another game. **Read More:** [A Police Officer Who Stopped to Fix a Boy’s Bike Is Going Viral](http://time.com/3981133/police-officer-fix-bike/) The department posted footage of the heartwarming incident, which was captured on dash cam, on its Facebook page. “We’re going to [let kids be kids](http://time.com/3996675/police-superheroes-childrens-hospital/). We’re going to focus on the ones that commit crimes,” police said at the end of the video. 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