I used to run a lot of COPS games. I think more people enjoyed playing that than just about anything else I ran (except Little Fears). I always had a few notecards with quick 'encounters' to fill some of the time with along with more detailed planned out events that took place over several games and had to be uncovered through investigation. A few others I would do is make the players use the 10 codes when calling over the radio, made players who were partners in the same car sit next to each other while playing, gave them a copy of the miranda rights to read when they arrested somebody. Every game started off in the muster room (like in Hill Street Blues) getting a briefing on what's been happening in the city and fed other such information.

After reading this thread I really want to run another COPS game now.

I used to run a lot of COPs games. My system of choice back when I was running these was Top Secret SI. It worked great for police action/dramas.

But my friend that enjoyed this the most ended up becoming a police officer in real life. That pretty much ended the COPs games, simply because he saw enough of the senseless human depravity in his job that he didn't want to spend hobby time dealing with it. Perfectly understandable.

I'd probably run COPs sagas along the lines of NYPD Blue or Law & Order SVU. The PCs would be a specialized group of detectives tackling the most dangerous criminals. It might be in a modern city or in a futuristic sci-fi type of setting. It might even be cool to be Coruscant Security Officers in the Star Wars galaxy. Heck, my friend that's a cop might even go for that one.

I'd probably run COPs sagas along the lines of NYPD Blue or Law & Order SVU. The PCs would be a specialized group of detectives tackling the most dangerous criminals. It might be in a modern city or in a futuristic sci-fi type of setting. It might even be cool to be Coruscant Security Officers in the Star Wars galaxy.

I am running a modern day mob game and it took a while to find people who would be interested in playing