CopCast!

Inaugurating Letter to America's Favourite Podcast of the Week is CopCast.  Hosts Rich Schumaker and Steve Ferguson have an easy rapport and obviously are having fun.  If you've ever wondered what it's like to be a cop in the States why not live vicariously through these guys?  Safer than patrolling the mean streets yourself citizen.

Check out this Sample Episode

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[Paolo "The Mexican" Murphy]

While it's not exactly Homicide: Life on the Streets (with stories like "Woman Accused Of Pelting Officer With Chicken Wings" and
"Man Drunk Dials Judge" it's ploughing its own absurdist furrow) but it's pretty good anyway. As a non-US resident my one standout experience of American cops was getting a jay-walking ticket off an LA motorcycle cop in mirror shades. He didn't say too much and didn't want to let me off the ticket despite my hispanic friend's protestations that "he's English, he's too stupid to get a ticket". When he found out I'd left my passport in the car you could tell he was seriously considering hauling me in. Anyway, he was gayer than the cop in Village People.