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I came here to be cranky, even though I wrote Southland porn yesterday and am extremely proud of myself. Except I got distracted by Ben/Cooper Role Play ideas (COPS & ROBBERS!, FTW!!)

And then I found myself looking at these Southland set photos of Ben McKenzie (which are not spoilery and have a little bit of Michael Cudlitz \o/) and I found myself thinking: Self, What the hell is half that crap on Ben's belt?

So. I tried to google it.

Go to Google and type in 'what's on a policeman's belt.'

I mean you can do that at your own risk. I'm just saying. Filter out the porn first.

So. Police-smart people, .

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ETA: I had to add this one in because Michael and Ben have the exact same facial expression here. Which, as I told lazlet is weirdly hot.

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Question's been answered already, but it reminded me of the time during my fifth year of college (I double-majored! I was not a member of Animal House!) I ran into my friend Justin, who had become a Madison (Wisconsin) cop after he graduated. I noticed right away that the utility belt (heh) kept him from standing the way he used to. He often used to stand hipshot, with his weight on one leg, and in uniform, he couldn't do that anymore, because the tall stuff in the belt would dig into his ribs. He could only stand with his weight on both legs and either cross his arms or hook his thumbs into his pants pockets. It was a perfect illustration of how clothing can affect posture, etc. From that day on, I thought of Justin's cop uniform as "drag."

(That day, he was on the fourth hour of his shift and had been working a local street festival that was famous for lots of drinking. He was on his third squad car of the shift -- the freshman girls he was arresting for public drunkenness kept puking in the backseat, so he'd have to swap out the cars after bringing the girls to the station. "I think the last one drank some kind of wop, because the puke was pretty red," he told me.)

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(That day, he was on the fourth hour of his shift and had been working a local street festival that was famous for lots of drinking. He was on his third squad car of the shift -- the freshman girls he was arresting for public drunkenness kept puking in the backseat, so he'd have to swap out the cars after bringing the girls to the station. "I think the last one drank some kind of wop, because the puke was pretty red," he told me.)

*howls* We had that in college, but we called it Jungle Juice. And it was created in the bathroom. In a garbage can. Yes, really. What? Having said that though, that name is crazy offensive.