"The institutional message for cops is: Who wants to be a street cop?"
He was trying not to act like a street cop, but he couldn't help it.
He still had the mind of a street cop, and his record was clean enough to serve tea on.
"They found out he is a real tough street cop."
Burns had started as a street cop in Philadelphia and worked his way up to police commissioner.
The bystanders had joined in, and two street cops were doing their best to cool everybody down.
A street cop, he had killed a kid in the projects some twenty years before.
Every street cop has to be a little bit of a con artist.
I don't think the teachers are too impressed with me, or any other street cops.
"Something can be happening to the street cops right upstairs and we don't even know."