Cop Complex 

When a cop believes that laws don't apply to them and only the Rights that they approve of actively apply to the citizen they are encountering at the moment. They believe that qualified immunity gives them the Right to suspend a citizen's Rights during an encounter - this simply is not true and often results in horrific new headlines.

God Complex adjacent.

Citizen is LEGALLY open carrying on PUBLIC land, say a county office building parking lot, and filming in public spaces. Cop approaches citizen to question the activities because they got a call from a county employee inside. Citizen cordially refuses to answer the cop's questions, states that he is acting within the bounds of the law and Rights. Cops continue to try to escalate the situation and display very poor attitudes when they figure out this is just a citizen acting legally and there's nothing they can do to the citizen. This is how cop complex works.

As soon as they discern that the citizen is acting within the bounds of the law they should immediately bid that citizen farewell and depart cordially.

The display of attitude is often misconstrued or chalked up to racism, however, the interaction plays out the same almost every time, across the board, regardless of the citizen's racial composition. This is not a brown, white, or black issue - this is a blue issue.

Note to the reader: If you're a cop reading this, I implore you to turn every citizen interaction into an opportunity to 'protect & server' and deescalate rather than embrace this 'Us vs. Them' attitude that seems so prevalent behind the blue line.

Cop Complex by sixlay June 24, 2022

Cop On Text 

Having a dirty cop dirty cop on your pocket that will twist facts to help you avoid being arrested.

I got a Cop In My Pocket and another Cop On Text, I can do whatever I want.

Cop On Text by SaltiestBastard August 31, 2022

Cop In Pocket

When you have committed a crime and you have a cop in your pocket, that means you have a police officer friend who will manipulate police reports to help you avoid arrest or legal accountability for crimes you have bragged about committing.

I got a Cop In Pocket and another Cop On Text, I can do whatever I want.

Cop In Pocket by SaltiestBastard August 31, 2022

Cop a feel 

When you were young and would sit in a place, like a movie theatre, or your 1998 Toyota Corolla, and put your hand inside her shirt to feel her beestings!

"Dude did you cop a feel when you guys sat in your car last night?"

Yes!! Bro's, I got to first base and felt her nice bee stings.

Cop a feel by 💦ON YOUR FACE September 12, 2022

Cop crow 

A cop car, usually highway state patrol, that sits empty on the side of the highway with it's lights off. Akin to a scare crow to scare crows away from the crop, a cop crow scares civilians into compliance with the speed limit to deter speeding.

I was speeding on the 15 north until I noticed a cop car and slowed down then when I realized that it was a cop crow, I sped back up.

Cop crow by Celeste McWhorter December 27, 2022

Cop Glazer 

A glazer is a mf who bootlicks or tries to have a casual conversation with a police officer during a scene. People so attention-hungry that they suck up to the officer and act like their friend.

ex.) An officer is performing an arrest on a criminal and random npcs that are spectating try to interact/distract with the officer.

Officer: "Ma'am, please step back."
Cop Glazer(Some guy): "Officer y'know, the crazy thing is that I'm from Minnesota and things like this happen all the time. Surprised that you guys have to put up with this in Utah too. Golly. I'm sorry you have to deal with this kind of thing. Y'know, my son called and told me what was happening and I just couldn't believe what I was hearing."

Cop Glazer by sheepersleepers April 10, 2023

Cop speak 

A subset of bafflegab intended both to lend glory to mundane events and to obfuscate unethical or violent actions. Examples might include “the alleged perpetrator proceeded in a northerly direction via vehicle” for “he drove north”, “sworn members” for “cops”, and “arrested after a brief use-of-force encounter” for “we beat him up”.

The press conference after the shooting was full of the kind of cop speak you’d expect from Public Affairs.

Cop speak by CharleneV May 5, 2023