Cop Humor

If you are lucky enough to actually live in your city while working as a police officer, there are “good-news, bad news” angles that a lot of people aren’t aware...

Sometimes technology helps you and is your friend. ... The other 94% of the time, it causes rising blood pressure, organizational frustration, and in this case, an expensive repair invoice....

Everyone got to arrest Michael at least once. I explain: Mission Station was a Field Training Officer base primarily because of our diversity and the eternal intensity of criminal activity....

There’s an old Law Enforcement maxim about having to physically fight a suspect: “When you get down in the mud to fight a pig, you get dirty, and the hog...

A lot of management policies stress the importance of keeping your workforce “engaged.” In law enforcement that means keeping the troops busy, even if you have to make up work...

All things considered, I should have gotten involved in the usual Thur$day afternoon poker game in the back room at Zukas, and then left before the last hand was dealt....

I’m a huge fan of what movies and TV seem to think goes on in my profession, mostly so I can laugh or comment out loud how absolutely wrong most...

As a cop, working at a fixed-post uniformed check-point job, standing behind a flimsy barricade at a local Faire, or other similar cultural event, was usually deadly boring and tedious....

The Frequent Flyers on my foot beat in the Mission District of San Francisco all had street names that usually complimented some aspect of their appearance, attitude, looks, or other...

You’ve probably seen the GEICO commercial where a group of four people are trying to get away from a creepy killer. The directors did a good job blending aspects of...