Sgt. Stacey Koon on COPS

In an "L.A.P.D. Edition" of COPS, Sergeant Stacey Koon introduces himself to the camera, apologising after spraying it with spit. From his patrol car he radios in a wildly inflated description of a speeding suspect, requests air support and gets stuck spelling the name of the street before deciding to handle the arrest himself. The dangerous suspect turns out to be a small boy, whom Koon pins against a graffiti-covered wall and frisks; when he finds a Super Soaker water pistol he treats it as a deadly weapon, shoves the boy into the squad car and assures viewers that it is brutal out there.

Stacey Koon was the LAPD sergeant in command at the 1991 beating of Rodney King and was convicted in federal court in 1993; Jim Carrey parodied him twice on In Living Color that year. On the DVD release the COPS theme "Bad Boys" is replaced with a sound-alike.