Behold! "VideoGate" Officer Andrew Cohen's addictive blog that goes deep -- deep! -- inside the San Francisco Police Department and its many machinations. What's it called? Why, Inside the SFPD, of course. Today's feature: a delightful Santos/'Twas the Night Before X-Mas parody. But the entire site seems to be coming along swimmingly, and we invite you to read and comment at your leisure. Note to chicken-shit trolls: you can comment anonymously. (God help you,......

It must be oddly freeing to have an ongoing, very public work-related crisis, because Officer Andrew Cohen seems to have a lot to say these days. And why the heck not? It's an interesting opportunity to take a look into the mind of what a veteran police officer -- one that no longer has to play politics -- really thinks. We got his opinion on the recent 'use of force' at AT&T Park. ...

SFist recieved this call to action from Officer Andrew Cohen, who is best known for being the focal point of the so-called "VideoGate" scandal. As with his responses in our recent interview with him, we believe that he raises some very thought-provoking points and offers further candid insight into the imbroglio. If you believe that moving forward with the case against the "VideoGate" participants is a waste of time, he asks you to take action by writing. Also attached below is a letter to his union's journal, in which he castigates the union for non-support....

Plenty of interesting stuff happened in San Francisco last week, and our readers, as always, added funny, insightful, and interesting angles to the stuff we wrote about. Our fabulous five for last week -- the first week with a new guy in the top spot! -- follows....

Officer Andrew Cohen made headlines in recent years for the videos he produced spoofing the SFPD. The videos were intended to be a humorous sendoff to former police captain Rick Bruce and poke fun at the officers at his station. They were also intended to be internal -- but they got out, and things got out of hand. We wanted to take this opportunity with Cohen to ask about more than the "VideoGate" scandal, rather than just rehashing what most of us already know. We sought the 12-year-vet's opinion on the state of policing in the city, his perspective on local politics and political figures, and what comes next for him....

....video goo-goo, video blah-blah. Even as people continue to debate whether Officer Andrew Cohen's now-notorious film project, involving African-American officers eating out of dog bowls and Charlie's Angels parodies is racist/sexist, in poor judgment, both, or neither, the post-video postmortems have already begun. Newsom -- was he right to react so swiftly? Going overboard? Or just trying to distract us from the murder rate? Meanwhile, 8 of the suspended officers have been put back at their posts. One officer held his own press conference to state that his inclusion in the video (sticking his tongue out) was from outtakes from a training video they were shooting and he had absolutely no idea the clips would be used in a potentially-sexist manner. The latest? So remember how this whole thing started because "someone" leaked the clips to the press? Well, the San Francisco Sentinel is reporting that they have an email showing that the supposed leak was actually from director Andrew Cohen himself! Is this just to get attention? To get his co-workers in trouble? To get his attorney friend some more bad publicity? And why's Cohen got five separate lawyers in the first place? Funny, the video's not nearly as interesting as the subsequent drama. ...

We've never understood this phenomenon of encouraging disgruntled employees to film skits to screen before the whole office to "boost morale." The last time we were forced to do this, we filmed a Blair Witch video where we "discovered" all the employees who'd quit over the last six months had actually been viciously killed by the office higher-ups. Nothing like dead silence from all your bosses after the screening ends! We are no longer at that job. We're thinking fondly of that video today in light of the news that an apoplectic Gavin Newsom and Heather Fong have now called for the resignation of 20 police officers from the Bayview Station, after they discovered an online cache of parody video clips, where various officers mocked women, the transgendered, African-Americans, and Asian-Americans. Officer Andrew Cohen, the cop responsible for the clips, and who calls himself an autuer (.pdf), has come out swinging, claiming it was all in good fun, Fong is "micromanaging," and that he's going to fight his suspension. "My mistake was deciding a lot of cops wanted to see funny video clips," he said. "I put a few clips on there [the Internet] and boom." Uh, yeah, that Internet, gets you every time. We haven't seen all the videos yet (and don't plan to), but from what we saw online and the descriptions we read, it seems less that the videos are offensive (like those Niners videos were) and more that they're just profoundly lame. Wow, officers doing tai chi and men dressed in drag! Boy, that's some real cutting-edge humor. And hey, shouldn't Officer Cohen be spending less time trying to boost morale and more time, say, doing some actual policing in the Bayview? When you solve all the murders in your district, Officer, please then feel free to make all the "artistic" movies you want. Watch the videos on CBS5.com. Image from the videos, from the Chron, who got them off KPIX...