Here's what I'm thinkin about little Jimmy Jordan:

[struggle4progress]

when you're a small time creep, and it looks like the cops might be breathin down your neck too much real soon, you find some bigger time creeps to suck up to and try make yourself look real useful to them, in the hopes they'll create some distraction that'll make you look less interesting to the law for a while

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. that could well be it

It fits the way he acts.