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The reasons for this are actually not all insulting. Cops will usually [[Must Have Caffeine|consume lots of coffee]], because it's necessary for them to stay awake during the night, and the donut is usually a sweet to dunk in the coffee or to remove its sour aftertaste. Donuts are also ready-made and stored in boxes - a good food to store in patrol cars for a long time, as they don't melt or get inedible when old. They also tend to be both filling and cheap, and as Donut Shops tend to open early, for a while they were among the few places open for someone working the graveyard shift. Donut shops also tend to give out free donuts to law enforcement.
As donuts are fattening sweets, the cop munching them will usually be a [[Acceptable Targets|fat]], lazy, moustached [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]. (Strangely, they never get glaze or frosting in their
As for corrupt cops, just remember that [[Evil Tastes Good]] - as do donuts.
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It should be noted that this is primary an American/Canadian based trope as donuts are nowhere near as popular with the police in many other countries.
{{examples}}
== [[Advertising]] ==
* A recent{{when}} AFLAC commercial featured two cops describing AFLAC using an analogy with a donut.▼
* Some years back{{when}}, a local commercial in the Orlando market featured the then real-life Orange County Sheriff and several of his deputies chowing down at a particular 24-hour restaurant. The tag line had the good Sheriff pointing at the repast before him and exclaiming, "''This'' is why cops don't eat donuts anymore!" (The spot was quickly pulled after protests that such a commercial endorsement by a law enforcement official was highly inappropriate.)▼
* The Foundation For A Better Life's "Honesty" ad - where a boy appears to steal a purse, but in reality chases down its owner - in the extended version, the cops that he appeared to be running from offer the boy a donut when they see him give the purse back.▼
* The infamous "[[wikipedia:Trunk Monkey|Trunk Monkey]]" ads have one where the titular critter tries to bribe an officer away from giving a ticket to his owner, first with cash, then with a donut. It doesn't work.▼
* In the [[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Sam and Twitch from ''[[Spawn]]'' also love Donuts. Especially Sam. But, then again, [[Big Eater|he loves everything]]...
* Harvey Bullock's love of doughnuts (see Western Animation examples below) carries over from his original appearances in the [[Batman]] comics.
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{{quote|"Cops on a donut run. I feel like a walkin' sterotype."}}
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲* A recent AFLAC commercial featured two cops describing AFLAC using an analogy with a donut.
▲* Some years back, a local commercial in the Orlando market featured the then real-life Orange County Sheriff and several of his deputies chowing down at a particular 24-hour restaurant. The tag line had the good Sheriff pointing at the repast before him and exclaiming, "''This'' is why cops don't eat donuts anymore!" (The spot was quickly pulled after protests that such a commercial endorsement by a law enforcement official was highly inappropriate.)
▲* The Foundation For A Better Life's "Honesty" ad - where a boy appears to steal a purse, but in reality chases down its owner - in the extended version, the cops that he appeared to be running from offer the boy a donut when they see him give the purse back.
▲* The infamous "[[wikipedia:Trunk Monkey|Trunk Monkey]]" ads have one where the titular critter tries to bribe an officer away from giving a ticket to his owner, first with cash, then with a donut. It doesn't work.
▲* In the [[Jack Chick]] tract Murph, Murph and his partner Donovan are having donuts, and Murph complains about always being called away when he orders one. As Murph is dying from gunshot wounds sustained in the robbery, Donovan brings him a sprinkled donut.
▲== Film ==
* In an early scene in ''[[RoboCop]] 3'', a rather pathetic hoodlum charges into a donut shop to hold the place up, and is suddenly covered in glowing red dots. He looks around in confusion and belatedly notices all the uniformed police officers/customers pointing their [[Laser Sight|laser-sighted]] guns at him. This was even lampshaded by the clerk sarcastically commenting to the hood, "So what's it like [[This Ain't Rocket Surgery|being a rocket scientist]]?" Then the main plot kicks in, and they leave him just standing there, pleading "Isn't someone going to arrest me?"
* The police car in ''[[Doug]]'''s First Movie has a vanity plate that says "DONUT-1"
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{{quote|'''Zed''':I'm now about to teach you the most important thing to know while you're out on patrol. And that is...how to eat a donut.}}
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' book ''Small Favor'', Harry requires some donuts to bribe a faerie and asks Murphy to get some. She's offended until he explains exactly why cops eat donuts, pretty much the same as in the page description. She grudgingly accepts this and tells him which car they're in. (She says that she prefers granola bars herself - similar advantages but healthier.)
** Harry likes doing this to Murphy. In "Something Borrowed," the following dialogue ensues:
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* Once every few novels of the ''[[In Death]]'' series, someone is bound to bring a box of donuts into "Cop Central." Usually it's intrepid reporter Nadine Furst, who routinely bribes her way into Eve Dallas's office by this method, but sometimes it's just "someone brought donuts."
* In the [[Tamora Pierce]] novel [[Tortall Universe|Bloodhound]], Beka Cooper, a Guardswoman (or "Provost's Dog"), dines on "fried dough spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg", which she later describes as "dough knots".
* Rare British example: The Ankh-Morpork City Watch, in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novels. Captain Vimes has a doughnut at Harga's House of Ribs in ''[[
* Everyone Jo knows from [[Da Chief]] to her cabbie buddy Gary knows her favourite types of drink and her favourite pastries from the local donut shop in [[The Walker Papers]].
* The shtekeleh, a Filipino-style Chinese donut in ''[[The Yiddish Policemen's
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Dexter]]'' - the title character offers donuts to his coworkers, all cops. They don't last very long. The donuts, that is. This is all part of his "I'm just a harmless nice guy" facade.
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' ended Experiment 409, "The Indestructible Man" with a pair of police officers instructing the SOL crew to never again make a police/[[Spell My Name with an "S"|doughnut]] joke. Joel, Servo and Crow actually signed a contract swearing that the would never make a cop/doughnut joke again. According to the Amazing Colossal Guide, they've remained true to that since.
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* One episode of ''[[Monster Garage]]'' involved turning a police car into a rolling donut shop. A police official said that the conversion was a good idea as it would allow officers on patrol to stop for a snack without leaving their vehicles, "but it's still wrong."
* ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'' does this, Graham, the Huntsman/Town Sheriff, brings in a box of donuts to Emma, the deputy. Emma gives Graham a flat stare, and he responds "Some stereotypes are true."
* In ''[[Family Matters]]'', Carl is an overweight cop, so there are a few donut jokes now and then:
** In one episode, a tax audit shows he tried to deduct trips to a donut store as deductibles. "I'm a cop!" he protests, "It's a business lunch!"
** On another episode, Carl gives directions to avoid a traffic jam caused by a fire, saying a landmark is easy to spot because it's near "a great donut shop" he frequents.
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* Brad Paisley, in his song "Mr. Policeman," taunts the cop chasing him: "There's no way you're keeping up with me / Just go on back to Krispy Kreme."
* Then there's the line from "Walk Like an Egyptian", quoted above. It might be the [[Trope Maker]].
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* A concert poster for the band Cop Shoot Cop depicts two policemen dueling over the last doughnut.
▲== Stand-Up Comedy ==
* [[Gabriel Iglesias]] was once pulled over by a cop in a [[Krispy Kreme]] parking lot for speeding (he was overexcited to get home and eat the donuts on his lap.) The policeman asked the obligatory "You know why I pulled you over?" He answered, "Yeah man, 'cause you could smell 'em!" The cop got enough of a kick out of that to let him go.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
▲== Tabletop Games ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070404045719/http://archive.dumpshock.com/CLUE/index.php3 The C.L.U.E. Foundation] has featured this trope, at least once, killing a particularly stupid ''[[Shadowrun]]'' player.
== [[Video Games]] ==
▲* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'': [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|SanAndreas]] [[Colon Cancer|:]]
{{quote|'''Motorcycle Cop''': [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich|What a waste of a good donut.]] OK, let's roll!}}
** Also, the first two Officer Tenpenny missions have you meeting him at a donut shop.
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* One of the side missions in [[Driver]]: Parallel Lines involves outlasting a police pursuit. How do you initiate this? You guessed it. Ram a donut stand.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Here Is
▲* ''Here Is A Question'' had this happen when Reno got arrested for murder and learned she got her potential sentence bumped up from [http://reno.stage-select.com/HIAQ/Question498.png five years to twenty-five]{{Dead link}}.
{{quote|'''Reno''': Oh come on, it was a JOKE. And I had NO idea that you hate donuts.
'''Cop''': Your stereotypes only AID the machine. }}
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* In ''[[Freefall]]'', Sam uses donuts to bribe (or at least pacify) [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1600/fc01555.htm gate guards] and everybody else.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* Chief Wiggum in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''. But, then again,
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* Chief Wiggum in ''[[The Simpsons]]''. But, then again, Donuts are popular with other characters as well. Still, he's the only one who threatened someone with violence because of some donuts that fell on the sewer.
** In one of the ''Treehouse of Horror'' episodes, Homer - due to an encounter with [[The Devil]] - has his head turned into a four-foot-wide donut. As a result,the Springfield Police Department lays siege to his house, cups of coffee in hand, waiting for him to emerge.
** Wiggum is also known to eat a stack of donuts off his gun, [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face|often without the safety on]].
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* ''[[American Dad]]'' - Roger wonders if there's a donut shop nearby when a bunch of cops appear. Stan doesn't get it.
* Happened in ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''.
** One episode has a fat and lazy cop sitting in his patrol car eating donuts and bragging about what a great cop he is while his partner is across the street foiling a bank robbery. On the way back to the station, he got donuts from practically every donut shop he found, including one that also sells
**
* Subverted in ''[[Sealab 2021]]'': Quinn tries to get a cop to leave a crime scene by throwing a donut away from it, even speaking to him like a dog ("go get, get it!"). The cop then tells he's diabetic, so Quinn just tasers him.
* Harvey Bullock from ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'''s love of donuts goes without saying. There's one scene early in the show's run where most of the police rush out of headquarters in response to some emergency and he lingers to grab one.
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* While the main food of the ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' episode "Short Order Crooks" is Cheddarhead Charlie's Cheese Chowder, an early scene has Officers Kirby and Muldoon picking up a box of donuts at the diner. Ma's donuts are highly praised, though Ma suspects they just come there because it's conveniently next door to the station.
* In ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' Courage once distracted a cop from his evil package by throwing a donut down the subway train.
* [[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* ''[[Gargoyles]]'' has some of the cops use this trope. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtlwggtdiDk The cops are eating donuts, see the monster, and blame the donut's sugar.]
* Lucky Piquel of ''[[Bonkers]]'' sure loves his pastries.
▲* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' movie has the cops portrayed in a [[Police Are Useless|''bad'']] light. Before the girls came along, crime was rampant, and we see the reason...during every crime, the police were at the DONUT SHOP.
* In one episode of ''Funky Cops'', Ace gets a new partner, a fresh academy grad, when Dick is incapacitated.
{{quote|'''Ace''': So what do they teach you at the academy these days?
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* ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]''; in one episode, the title character is able to distract two Netherworld cops by conjuring up a donut stand and yelling "Free donuts!" Unfortunately, the donuts he has are the type ''he'' likes, dirty and covered with bugs, so it doesn't distract them for long.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* "Bad Cop, No Donut" adorns many a T-Shirt of anti-authority youth.
** This also exists as a bumper sticker, popular on pickup truck rear windows, where a cop can't see it.
** They also make ones that say "Police Headquarters" in the orange-and-pink Dunkin' Donuts logo font.
* A regional joke in Western Massachusetts revolves around the fact that Dunkin Donuts
** Not to mention Starbucks isn't actually that expensive especially if all you want is regular coffee and there is no reason cops should actually detest the idea of being in the same room with college kids who don't always have all that much money anyway.
** [[This troper]]'s brother actually saw an arrest take place within the local donut shop.
** Amusing subversion in a few of Detroit's nicer suburbs (Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills): the cops all hang at Starbucks, despite the presence of several Dunkin Donuts and Tim Horton's within the city limits or the next suburb over.
** It's also worth noting that, traditionally, Dunkin' Donuts had a reputation for having just about the most awesome coffee in the universe, even if you weren't buying any donuts. Granted, that may be less true these days since specialty coffee shops have become so popular.
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* In Michigan, a Police Station had bought and run a donut shop that was on the verge of closing down. They called it, "Cops & Doughnuts". [https://web.archive.org/web/20090926021735/http://blog.taragana.com/n/cops-doughnuts-for-laughs-and-to-help-community-police-in-mich-town-buy-bakery-99499/ Link]
* In the 90s, Atlanta-area radio DJs Randy and Spiff had a "contest" called "Cop In, Cop Out", wherein they scouted a donut shop, then challenged the caller to guess whether there was a policeman in the store or not. Saying "Cop In" was pretty much a sure thing.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130707153805/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3197/is_7_53/ai_n27946249/ This article] for those that didn't click it, it's a story about a donut delivery truck being hijacked and chased by a minimum of nine officers from four agencies in a half-dozen cruisers! Also, the company donated the stolen donuts to the arresting officers.
* A joke once detailed that when a Cop goes to Hell, he must make a decision: Bullets or Donuts.
* An Alberta city in the early 90s saw an internal police memo leaked to the press where, to avoid people believing this trope by seeing the Tim Horton's parking lot full of police cars, officers were asked to park down the street and walk.
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* A small arcade in Marina Del Rey, CA had a recurring problem with gang fights, so the strip mall's proprietors designated parking space for police vehicles. Unfortunately, they chose the one directly in front of the adjacent donut shop, making it a local [[Running Gag]] for years.
* Subverted in many communities where breakfast tacos are a favorite treat; breakfast tacos also taste delicious with coffee and there are many opportunities to grab a taco anytime, day or night (and they taste as good at 10:00 PM as they do at 10:00 AM), so tacos are the cop's best friend there.
* Tim Hortons, far and away from the largest coffee, baked goods and fast-food chain in [[Canada]], was founded by the hockey player Tim Horton, but his first investor and franchisee were Ron Joyce, a police constable who frequented Horton's shop on his beat. After Horton's death, Joyce took over the chain and expanded it into the empire it is today.
** Instead of paying for security, Tim Hortons offers free menu items to members of Law Enforcement, encouraging police to frequent time.
* "[https://web.archive.org/web/20161029105006/http://www.memecenter.com/fun/332493/police-bait-donuts Happy International Donut Day]!"
* A [https://web.archive.org/web/20080611170448/http://www.wsaw.com/home/headlines/12905402.html Wisconsin thief] opted to steal a random automobile to make a getaway. His choice... a truck with donuts. It was even featured on [[World's Dumbest...]].
* When a truck of [https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/no-words-police-mourn-burnt-krispy-kreme-truck-all-donuts-were-lost/ donuts] in Kentucky was destroyed by fire, the police were left "in mourning". it went viral.
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