The days of Robert Scorpio on GH and Cruz Castillo on Santa Barbara are long over. Sadly the Keystone Cops of daytime here...They couldn't find their butts if their hands were handcuffed behind their backs, let alone solve a case.

ATWT-Margo Hughes Jack Snyder

GH-Mac Scorpio Lucky Spencer

AMC-Jessie Hubbard Derek Frye

Guiding Light-Mallet Frank Cooper

Young & Restless-Paul Williams

OLTL-Bo Buchanan Sometimes known as Dumbo John McStinky McBain

DOOL-Bo and Hope Brady 2nd Roman Brady

B & B?

Other

That's a pretty decent list. Roman "What da hell Shami" Brady is especially clueless and always seems über perplexed. Hope shoots relatives, and B&B's only detective, Lt. Baker can pretty well ensure that a Forrester can get away with anything.

LMAO! I think it's easier to come up with the few good cops on daytime, than it is to list the worst ones.

Ryan Harrison on AW was a damn fine cop. Not nearly as Keystone as others. But even he still had his moments.

I thought Derek Frye was bad but Jesse Hubbard is 1 million time worse.

Since Jesse tookover the only family he has protected is his own! He just doesn't care about anyone but his family and makes no bones about it!

Sean Donely from GH he was a fine cop.

Also don`t diss Mac.He is a scorpio after all.

The best soap cop was Robert Scorpio. Cruz was a good cop also. Can't believe I forgot about him.

I think Jesse Hubbard is horrible because he's a fraud. Here he is, the chief of police, yet it seemed like all he did was work for Ryan, being there at his every beck and call.

Anna Devane was horrible, but it was because she was just ineffectual. She couldn't solve that Proteus case for anything!

Derek wasn't bad -- it's just that nobody ever gave him any information to go on. People just took matters into their own hands. Back in the day, he, Trevor and Mimi used to be pretty damn good cops.

Edited July 30, 200916 yr by R Sinclair

LOL, I knew when I saw R Sinclair's name on this thread that Jesse Hubbard would be making an appearance on this list. I'm not gonna argue with that. If Pine Valley were in NJ, Jesse would already be arrested for corruption.

For consideration, though, I would like to suggest John McNostril on OLTL, who seems to "fall in love" with every female he is assigned to pwotect fwom da big, bad world. I say "fall in love" because it is impossible to get a flicker of emotion from the comatose Michael Easton.

Bumbling cop (and marble-mouth extraordinaire) #2 must be FauxRoman on Days. Quite apart from the fact that he can barely read perps their rights in a coherent fashion, Hairpiece is about five years behind professional evil-doers like the DiMeras and Kiriakises. Which means he must be friggin mentally-challenged when you consider that, Victor excepted, the members of these two crime families are hardly brainiacs.

Best cops: Robert Scorpio. Duke Lavery & Anna Devane (on GH). Damn. Remember when GH actually portrayed law-enforcement officials sympathetically and with intelliegence?

Edited July 30, 200916 yr by Cat

But the cops aren't suppose to be smart on Daytime. Daytime is for all the crimanals to win. Pick a crime & they will win on soaps. In real life Crime never pays. But you can't tell by watching soaps.

Best cops: Robert Scorpio. Duke Lavery & Anna Devane (on GH). Damn. Remember when GH actually portrayed law-enforcement officials sympathetically and with intelliegence?

Duke was not a cop and Anna let her feelings for Duke destroy her career. Sean, Frisco and even Mac were better cops than Anna. Robert was the best.

Duke was not a cop and Anna let her feelings for Duke destroy her career. Sean, Frisco and even Mac were better cops than Anna. Robert was the best.

I know he wasn't a cop but he was doing the law-enforcement thing (before the mob gunned him down) and solving mysteries and thwarting bad guys alongside Anna and the FSB. I hesitate adding Frisco to the list as I always thought he was a pup behind the lions who were Sean and Robert. So yeah, I would agree that Sean and Robert were tops.

Yes Anna let Duke ruin her career and then turned around and let David do it agian!

Most on the list are stupid , Jesse on the other hand is smart but not interested in protecting PV just his Family!

Worst?

ATWT: Jack and Margo, Dallas

B&B: Lt. Baker and his son

Days: I have to agree about Josh Taylor's Roman! Same with Bo and Hope and Billie

GL: Frank, Mallet, Harley, that Patrick Cutter guy from the 90s

Y&R: Paul, Detective Webber

ITA with the AMC pick of Jesse. I think the best right now - and shes not even a cop yet is his daughter (her name escapes me) she's actually trying to figure out what went on with Zach shooting at Adam.

ITA with the AMC pick of Jesse. I think the best right now - and shes not even a cop yet is his daughter (her name escapes me) she's actually trying to figure out what went on with Zach shooting at Adam.

Natalia.

And to make Jesse even worse, when she starts asking questions showing some intelligence, he scolds her like a child, takes her off the the case and sends her "grown behind" home. I would love to see how Natalia reacts when she realizes this father she idolized so much that led her to become a police officer, is nothing but a corrupt bitch with a stank ass attitude.

What is it with Pine Valley? People who've been "dead" for years come back to life and hop into the top cop position within six months? First Anna, now Jesse?

I'll never forget one of my favorite lines when Anna practically burned down David's cabin after hacking into David's computer:

David: What the hell were you doing?!

Anna: I told you I was investigating you!

David: You call that shoddy work investigating?!