Another cop show, but this looks like it may be interesting due to the fact they have a large area to patrol and the elements can be rough. I'll give it a try.

And I wanted to start this thread so I could put up the subtitle, "Police Believe Alcohol Was Involved."

That's sort of the subtitle of Alaska, usually coming up in every newspaper article reporting an incident leading to the cops being called.

As viewers saw tonight.

Some great only in Alaska elements. Can't just let a drunk woman pass out on the porch; she'll freeze to death. The number of military folks, armed or trained to kill, drunk and angry. Near drunk snowmachining death. Hunting down moose poachers/wasters with the vigilance that other states go after meth dealers.

Take it from an Alaskan, this show's worth giving a try.

Okay, I need the run-down on this show! As another Alaskan, I was excited to see the ridiculous entertainment this show would provide but I don't get the National Geographic channel. Before I spend too much time finding where I can watch it online, I wanted to know if it's worth it and the Nat'l. Geo. website isn't giving me too much information. Are there a good variety of locations around the state that they're covering? Are they following just a few troopers (the website has bios for 3 troopers)? Are the troopers generally shown in a good light?

If nothing else, I definitely need to figure out how to watch the next episode--it covers the Arctic Man! I know enough drunk, beligerent UAF students who have gone to Arctic Man to know what hilarity will ensue!

I watched the Arctic Man episode. They showed footage of the Arctic Man festival, "street" patrolling in Fairbanks and Wildlife patrolling up north near Fairbanks (I believe). It's quite diverse. I grew up in FLa. and now live in PA where State Troopers handle road incidents only. So seeing Alaskan troopers handle such a variety of problems was a real eye opener for me. In the lower 48, a local sheriff or police officer would handle domestic disturbances. I also liked seeing that the officers put common sense ahead of "authority." Such a different mindset in my opinion than officers in other shows.

Thanks for the input, dad2two. I didn't realize the Arctic Man episode had already aired. The National Geographic website listed it was the "next primetime airing" or something like that--I thought that was their way of saying it was the upcoming new episode.


I live in an Alaskan village that has intermittent trooper presence (no full-time officer stationed here) and it's very hit and miss as to whether you deal with an officer high on his own power or a sensible one. I'm guessing that the state trooper higher-ups who authorized this show must have made sure that the officers followed on camera were ones who had good heads on their shoulders.

Have they shown any troopers outside of the larger cities?

I'm disappointed that I don't get this channel. The clips on the web site were very interesting. I'm learning a lot about the villages, the law enforcement system, etc. that's totally different from what I've run across in the lower 48.

The clip about the motorcycle vs. semi accident on the Seward highway was awful to watch. Web viewers didn't get to see the end of the story, but it looks like the woman hung on for about a week before she passed away. What a terrible shame. What in the world was her husband thinking, trying to pass on a narrow, curvy stretch of crowded road? http://www.kfqd.com/node/4941

So far, we've seen about four or five different troopers, including the wildlife troopers. The bullet-headed one at the Arctic Man gathering struck me as very high on the power type. First, he seemed 'roided up, and second, there was a moment where this drunk dude was giving him a load of shit and he took a step towards the guy, then back and I just laughed, thinking, if the cameras weren't there, he would have popped that twit right in the mouth.

But the trooper who helped the drunk 'princess' was very kind and good with her, and I liked his explanation about treating everyone with respect. And the one Fairbanks trooper with dark, soulful eyes seems nice.

Yeah, but I know, as a kid, we called them The Fuzz and were intimidated. And we were hardly of the criminal class. The local cops were your neighbors and friends, troopers were always outsiders.



What a lot of people think driving the Seward Highway. I was talking to a coworker about the show and she said she'd seen that 60 people a year die on that highway? This past summer, a girl's baby daddy died one week and she was injured and I think her brother died on it the next week? Something awful like that.



HEH. Only in AK is Fairbanks a 'big city.' Next week's episode is supposed to be on the Kenai Peninsula, thus the Seward Highway bit above. Maybe we'll get some small town drunks instead of big city drunks.

Ha! Well YOU know what I mean. I live in a town with a population under 1500...anything is a "big city" compared to that! I think showing the troopers in small villages would be pure gold. I read the troopers report online from time to time (yes, to see if I know anybody in it) and the small town reports are infinitely more entertaining than the "city" ones.


I was thinking the same thing--that road is notorious for traffic accidents. People are traveling at freeway speeds on what is really a lot more like a back-country road. Just google "Seward Highway" and "accident" and you'll get plenty of results.

So when do new episodes air? I may have tracked down somebody who gets this channel and I need to know when I should drop by their house unannounced :) It really is a shame that more cable and satellite companies don't carry this channel--I feel like I'm missing out on a lot!

Totally! My cubemate at work reads the police blotter online everyday and gets on the phone, hissing about various friends and relatives activities over the weekend.

I'm bad at it though. I missed when my drunk neighbor was *finally* picked up driving and when another neighbor's son died.

One thing I've found interesting, is so far, EVERY perp has had their face blurred. Where are the drunk crazies from Cops who don't mind showing their face!? I want to see if that continues, and if it's an Alaskan thing.



It was Wednesday at 6PM? 7PM? AKT. I'm sure it's rerun later, because the ad had said 10PM, but that may have been EST, and thus it was 6PM. GCI has NGeo here in Juneau, which I love. It's a much better channel than TLC or Discovery, although there's a bit too much Locked Up Abroad.