When he’s not starring in his next flick, Steven Seagal claims to work part-time as a cop. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times from December 2009, Seagal said he’s been working quietly as a cop for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office in his time off. According to the actor, it all began after he taught some of the local officers martial arts at the request of then-Sheriff Harry Lee. “He was so pleased with what I was doing he asked me to come onto the force and be one of his cops,” Seagal said.
Of course, Steven Seagal decided that two decades was long enough before he decided to cash in on his side hustle. In 2009, he launched the reality TV series “Steven Seagal: Lawman,” which promised to blow the lid on what the actor had been up to. The show had plenty of detractors, including The Guardian, which wrote a scathing introspection of whether Seagal’s stint as a police officer was fact or fiction.
For his part, Seagal claimed in an interview with The Washington Post in 2015 that he arrested “hundreds” of individuals. “The thing I like best is forming a team where we go after high-risk warrants, for people who are armed and dangerous. Murderers, bank robbers, rapists, kidnappers. Those are the guys I like to get,” Seagal said. “(I’ve apprehended) hundreds of them. Many, many hundreds. I don’t know how many hundreds.”
Nicki
