Snoop Dogg arrest: Swedish Police Gamble On Sure Thing – And Lose

Luck has always played a large part in law enforcement and a good policeman needs a massive slice of it, but the Swedish police discovered this week, they don’t have any at all

In deductive reasoning it is often said, albeit slightly tongue in cheek, that if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck. This phrasing has been around since James Whitcomb Riley used it, but was perhaps immortalized more by Emil Mazey’s use to accuse members of the United Auto Workers of being communists back in the forties. The fact remains however that it is a common enough part of the lexicon of our language. I just wonder if someone told Snoop Dogg.

Who Locked The Dogg’s In?

• Swedish cops bust Snoop
• Arrested on suspicion
• Urine test proved him clean

Snoop Dogg was, this week, arrested (very briefly) in Sweden on suspicion of being under the influence of narcotics, something the subsequent urine test proved false, a matter on which he tweeted furiously vowing never to return to Sweden and saying the things about policemen that one should expect of a rapper arrested on charges that wouldn’t stick because they weren’t true. “Oh my mamas,” he Twittered, gambling news coverage of the sentiment would help. “I’m sick and tired of the pigs.”

However one does have to feel slightly sorry for the pigs in all this. After all, this is Snoop Dogg we’re talking about, not the Pope. Stopping the Pope on the grounds you think he was under the influence of narcotics would be ridiculous, you rarely see him praying for weed, he doesn’t sit out on the balcony of the Vatican overlooking St. Peter’s Square with a bong, and none of his company’s songs feature lyrics about it. Not entirely sure you can say the same for Snoop Dogg’s reputation.

A Victim Of His Own Success?

The rapper’s indignation is all very well, but accusing the police of racial profiling is a tad extreme, you’re Snoop Dogg, dawg, of course they think you’re on drugs, you quite often are. You can’t make an illegal activity part of your show-biz schtick, make millions from it as a theatrical prop and then complain when the police believe your own propaganda. The surprising part of this is not that the Swedish police arrested Snoop Dogg, it’s that all the others don’t bother.

Naturally there are those that would say this occurrence, far from being a bit embarrassing (you’re the police force that arrested Snoop Dogg on the day he WASN’T stoned), should be quite reassuring for anyone Swedish gambling laws on drugs apply equally across the board. Sure, the police made a pig’s ear (pun intended) of this, the law enforcement equivalent of missing an open goal, but at least they were willing to give it a go and stop someone rich, famous and notoriously vocal.

Unfortunately this was a moment of desperate over-compensation by the long arm of the Swedish law who have, lets be honest, been wholly failing to win the war on drugs. No agency or society has, by the way, it’s an unwinnable unending battle that George Orwell would chuckle about darkly, but the Swedish police rather wish they were and are attempting to look as if they are even when they’re manifestly not. Hence the stop on the rapper famous for being a weed smoker.

Sports & Entertainment Are Not Islands

Snoop’s reaction however is equally embarrassing. His accusations and bemoaning all just smoke and mirrors to cover up the fact he wasn’t actually on drugs, his reputation as a debauchee somewhat tarnished by the fact his arrest in Sweden (which has a wholly undeserved reputation) wasn’t for partaking in a large drug fueled orgy with girls called Elsa. He wasn’t even driving stoned…….and what is Snoop Dogg doing driving anyway? Chauffeur too drunk, Snoop?

Those that like to bet on sports in Sweden might dislike drug when it effects the results of the competitions on which they’re wagering, but they’re still part of a society that listens to and buys Snoop’s music, watches him on MTV or laughs at his appearances on television. No one seriously expects Snoop Dogg to be clean, nor wants him to be, he’s in rap music, not the Olympic 100 meters, but the law sees no difference. It might one day, but only when politicians have to take random drug tests each week.

Snoop Dogg can howl all he likes at his treatment but even ComeOn! Sportsbook would have had the police down as favorites to win this encounter, and the fact Snoop turned out to be innocent just goes to show that the Swedish police aren’t very lucky, and Snoop Dogg isn’t as hip as he pretends. Of course the publicity surrounding this stop will have done the police no real harm, whatever Snoop tweets, after all, who is going to criticize them for searching a duck……even if it’s a Dogg.