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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 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 [[
== Comic Books ==
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* Lampshaded in an issue of ''[[Spider Girl]]'':
{{quote|"Cops on a donut run. I feel like a walkin' sterotype."}}
▲* 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 ==
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* A concert poster for the band Cop Shoot Cop depicts two policemen dueling over the last doughnut.
== Recorded and Stand-Up Comedy ==▼
▲== 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 ==
* [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!}}
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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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== Western Animation ==
* Chief Wiggum in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''. But, then again,
** 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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** 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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* 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.
* "[http://www.memecenter.com/fun/332493/police-bait-donuts Happy International Donut Day]!"
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[[Category:Food Tropes]]▼
[[Category:Crime and Punishment Tropes]]
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