beat cop

Raised by his grandparents in East Los Angeles, Baca dropped out of community college and was hired as a beat cop with the Sheriff’s Department.

Before he was a police chief, he used to be a beat cop.

Chris Chalk put his stamp on HBO’s dark, dynamic “Perry Mason” during a key scene in the first season, when his character, the deeply conflicted beat cop Paul Drake, pays a visit to Perry’s home.

After the Navy, he spent time as a beat cop in a city in Los Angeles County, eventually deciding police work wasn’t for him.

Navy in Vietnam, worked the streets of Los Angeles County as a beat cop, wrote about grapes and wine for California’s vineyard industry, and covered organized crime as a reporter in Arizona.