Donuts and Cops

Entry in progress—B.P.
 
> Can anyone cite a historic reference to when the police started to be =
> associated with donuts?  Is this an invention of the 1960’s?

That may be, but my sense is that the donut-eating stereotype didn’t
reach critical mass in pop culture until the ‘80s—perhaps first
catching on in California. Looking for musical references, I find that
the San Francisco punk group Pop-O-Pies had a 1983 song called
“Fascists Eat Donuts” (“Make those donuts with extra grease, This
batch is for the chief of police”). Another Bay Area punk band, NOFX,
released a song in 1985 called “Cops and Donuts,” with lyrics about
getting pulled over on the freeway and avoiding arrest by feeding the
cop donuts (“Cops love donuts”). A bit more benignly, the L.A. group
The Bangles sang, “If you want to find all the cops, They’re hanging
out in the donut shop” in their 1986 hit, “Walk Like an Egyptian.”

On IMDb one can find cop-donut jokes in movies from about 1987
onwards. “Raising Arizona” (1987) has the line, “You want to find an
outlaw, hire an outlaw. You want to find a Dunkin’ Donuts, call a
cop.” “Stakeout” (1987) and “Die Hard” (1988) also support the notion
that cops subsist on a donut diet.
 
The Hill Street Blues episode “Bangladesh Slowly” (November 1, 1984) had

a sequence about a TV news reporter following Andy Renko around
various donut shops during the day, making him look bad.
   
BoatCop.com
Why Do Cops Like Donuts?
1. Donuts are relatively inexpensive, so they can be discarded with little guilt, in case of a hot call in the middle of a snack break.
2. In many areas, the donut shop is the only place open 24 hours.
3. Donuts have sugar and carbohydrates, which allow for quick energy. Donuts, coupled with the ever present cup of coffee, help keep the officers awake and alert.
4. Donut shops are usually located in centralized areas, which can be used as a meeting place for briefings between Officers of different agencies or shifts.
5. Donuts are TASTY! Can you think of anyone who DOESN’T like donuts?
       
Zazzle.com
Cops & Donuts Bumper sticker
by psm108
“Bad Cop No Donut” in black and white
created by psm108 (1/11/2009 8:27 PM)
   
OCLC WorldCat record
The album
Author: No F-X (Musical group)
Publisher: Los Angeles : Mystic, 1988.
Edition/Format: Musical LP : Rock music : English
Material Type: Music
Document Type: Sound Recording
All Authors / Contributors: No F-X (Musical group)
OCLC Number: 23742586
Notes: Rock songs.
Description: 1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in.
Contents: No problems—Memories—Beast within—Instrumental—Ant attack—Cops and donuts—Iron man—Live your life—My friends—Six pack girls—Hit it—Hold it back—ID.
   
OCLC WorldCat record
Duckin’ Donuts: What goes down comes around, we guess, as a police officer tries not to get hit by flying jelly doughnuts and a concealed chocolate chip cookie. (Have we mentioned that we don’t make this stuff up?)
Edition/Format: Article : English
Publication: TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT -ALEXANDRIA- AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT, 52, no. 6, (1998): 96
Database: British Library Serials
 
OCLC WorldCat record
Between donuts : twenty-years of the humorous, sobering, and heart wrenching reality of a street cop
Author: Paul St John Fleming
Publisher: Baltimore : AmErica House, ©2002.
Edition/Format: Book : English
 
OCLC WorldCat record
Police work : it’s not all coffee and donuts : a read for police officers and those who dare to learn what makes them tick and ticked off
Author: Ray Rubino
Publisher: [United States] : 1stBooks Library, ©2003.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English
 
OCLC WorldCat record
Cops, donuts, and murder
Author: George Galjan
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English
Summary: Cleveland police officers Lietenant Pavlick and Seargeant Fu Chu Lai team up to battle the Cleveland Mafioso.
(PublishAmerica, 2006—ed.)
 
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