Volume 13 Issue 6
In The Bag
"The bag" is NYPD slang for the full uniform. If your bag is in perfectly pressed, crispy condition, you're probably a pussy. Real cops wear busted-out uniforms as a sign of experience and pride.
Scandinavian Uniform Choice
Helmet: We keep the helmet in the car, and only use it for bigger operations like demonstrations and for going into Christiania. People tend to throw stones at us there. So we end up using it pretty often. The chinstrap doesn't stay put and it...
Uniform Choice
To all of you who spend three hours a day gurgling over which selection of pastel-shade charity shop tat you’re going to wear for your loser job, just take a look at this and realize how often cops take one look at you and think: “You haven’t even been...
The Truth Is In There
Working with dead people and the ones around them who are hurt and upset is not very pleasant. The only beautiful part is the truth.
Pink In Blue
In a recent, publicly-funded questionnaire, the hot news was that among 6,300 Dutch cops only four percent admitted to being gay.
Stand And Deliver
We hate to say we told you so, but if you haven’t seen Man Like Me perform somewhere by the end of the summer then you can’t really call it a summer.
Vice Fashion - Cop Encounters
We'd been smoking like Indians all day long. I was so out of it I felt like I was coming down with an extra chromosome. The police appeared out of nowhere and, at least to me, for no apparent reason.
"I Am a Cop."
I am a cop. I go to work in the morning just like any guy. I may drink some coffee and drive around, or it can be ACTION ACTION ACTION all day long. You never know.
Vice Recommends
Way before the Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand transformed Domino Records into a ruthless multinational, the label used to put out records by people like Smog and The Pastels and they’d all happily live off bread and water.
Cobra-91
After the war in Iraq started, I spent a lot of time supervising "Cobra" counterterrorism cops assigned to chemical & biological warfare response teams in Lower Manhattan-you know, the guys in the bubble suits that scare everyone half to death?