My favorites are pretty much when the hot dog cop gets shown to be fool.
All time fave was with an older, well dressed and well built black man in what looked to be a nice neighborhood walking home from the grocery store with two full bags of groceries... COPs guy has a wide shot and showes that there were several police surrounding him and officer was yelling at him to drop the bags and put his hands in the air. Black Citizen says he would be happy to cooperate if he could just put his bags on his porch, "I got 40 dollars worth of steaks and two dozen eggs, Let me just set them down." both of his hands are clearly visible and empty. More screaming of commands from the officers, and finally a younger male cop runs up and just hoses the black man in the face with Mace. The citizen goes to his knees and tries to set the bags down, and as he does he is jumped on by several officers. He is screaming "why why why" as they try to wrestle him down. The pepper spray officer tries to spray the citizen again and the black heavily muscled arm grabs the spray and twists the wrist around and manages a full facial spray into the officers mouth and nose. "How you like that b%*ch" comes a scream from the citizen, Much later is a shot of the officer who the cCOPS crew riding with attempting to down play the whole thing saying that they had gotten bad intell on who the perp was. ... and the officer who received the face shot of Mace was still sitting in the front yard with a garden hose held to his face.
The other horrible part is the pisspoor ability of the Officers to ID weapons. One LE looking down the barrel of a small beretta to say what caliber it was, and when it got turned back, the hammer was cocked. Another where three LE's were struggling to open the Cylinder on a SW 36. My son caught one just the other day, Officer pulls back slide and watches round leave the barrel and then he releases the slide and then drops the magazine. leaves the weapon on the hood of the care with a round in the barrel. Another one where the Officer picks up a sawn off shotgun SXS and they take fifteen seconds of wiggling the safety off and on before they try to move the lock lever to the side and open the action...
In many of the episodes, I am sure the editing room is used to portray some personal feelings too. There was one guy who was on quite a bit, from New Mexico and I am pretty sure the editors liked him because he really came out smeeling like a rose. He may have been a nice guy, but he seemed to know all the perps by the first name, they all just seemed to relax in his presence and talked to him real civil. there were a few guys from Broward County who got the "moron" treatment from the editors, where it was cut to show the guy as a hard head and often borderline animal in treating arrestees.
second all time fave is the Naked guy in the barbershop in Pitt or philly.
