In Popular Culture
Bruce Springsteen's album Nebraska (1982) contains the dark song "State Trooper", in which a traveller on the New Jersey Turnpike, a desperate man who has committed unknown crimes, hopes that he won't be pulled over by a State Trooper. This song was used in The Sopranos.
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- New Jersey Turnpike ridin' on a wet night 'neath the refinery's glow, out where the great black rivers flow
- License, registration, I ain't got none but I got a clear conscience 'Bout the things I done
- Mister state trooper, please don't stop me
- Please don't stop me, please don't stop me!
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In the 2009 movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Kevin James plays a mall Security Guard who dreams to become a New Jersey State Trooper. In the beginning of the film, he is taking the entry course in the Police Academy and several training instructors are seen as well as some officers in dress uniforms in the background.
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