August 5, 2025 • 6 mins
"If your local cop didn’t get cracked last night… should you be worried about getting a ticket today?"In this jaw-dropping and laugh-packed episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive into one of the most bizarre viral stories to hit Houston: a Harris County deputy goes full TikTok mode, posting a video from her squad car with the caption, “Didn’t get cracked last night so everyone is getting a ticket.” The crew breaks down the implications, the public reaction, and the sheer absurdity of a cop threatening citations over a dry spell. But it’s not just commentary — it’s comedy gold. From KT’s reluctant involvement in hypothetical “cracking” scenarios to Ben and Skin’s enthusiastic support of “backing the blue from behind,” this segment is a masterclass in turning controversy into comedy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the love Shack.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Baby Ben's getting ladies talking love life and a white Mercedes. David.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Let us be nice to you, oh advice, and.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
You welcome to the love Shack.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Lady life.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
You gets crazy, you need to Sexpert's roadhouse.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Let me handle the bad problems for we have quite
a story here out of Houston.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Jennifer Escalera is a police officer for Houston Harris County.
She posted a video on TikTok and she's in her
squad car. You know how they have those like little
laptops or they have a little like trey, you know,
in the in the cop.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Cars they look stuff up.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
So she run your plates.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
She's in her tactical gear and she's typing on her
you know, notebook or iPad or laptop or whatever. And
on the TikTok video, it just says on the text,
didn't get crack last night, So everyone is getting a ticket.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Oh cracked?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, getting cracked is a new slame turn for getting late.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Gotten smashed?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, yeah, getting cracked. So she didn't get cracked last night,
so everyone's getting a ticket.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That's not smart.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Well, how do you say it's not smart for her
to not get cracked, or to give out all.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
The tickets for her to say that, because you can't
prove Jesus what type of a cracking candidate is she is?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
She's as good looking at this casket girl. I'll let
you no, no, nothing has.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Been well then, I think it's ridiculous what she's saying.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
But she is. She is good looking as someone that
would let their little kid go swimming with an octopus.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Looks at the subject of question.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
What are you talking about, dude? Somebody needs to get
to cracking unleast, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Dude?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Look at that? Let me say that you're not a
fan of that.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I don't like the idea that my ass could get kicked.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
What do you mean you think she's gonna beat you up?
Speaker 6 (02:07):
There's some guys listening here like, yeah, cop too that dude.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I think it's I can't figure out what it is
about you that is making you say you don't like that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You know what, man?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
If I was you, Kevin, I'd be willing to crack
while wearing that bulletproof vest.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Okay, well why am I involved?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Um?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
You're here one against the police. Me and Ben will
back the blue from behind. I think it's tapped the blue,
cracked the blue. I was surprised to see the public
reaction to this story. Oh didn't plug in? Hold on
what time it in?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Cracked in?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
There?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Now we will start the audio. You should do it
from the news in Houston.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
In a vibral video that has since been deleted, we
see a Precinct five constable deputy joining on a TikTok
trend and having some fun, but that could cause her to.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Lose her job.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
In the video, you can see the.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Deputy consist like you get fired.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Everybody talks weird.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
That could cause her to lose her job. In the video,
you can see the deputy taking some notes, but she
leaves her name visible to see.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I think it's real, inappropriate, disrespectful.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
It is very unprofessional, you know what I'm saying, Like
you shouldn't be doing nothing like that.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's unprofessional.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
You know, when you're a professional.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
You you talk a certain way, you carry yourself a certain.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Way when you're in your work clothes. That's what you
do outside of work, that's cool.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Does this make you like distrust the people that's supposed
to be serving and protecting this area.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I feel like they planning.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
No, you're just being chrouded, like y'all ain't you ain't
taking nothing seriously.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
You're gonna write me some tickets.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Because you ain't get crept. It's crazy posting videos like that,
you can't even take them seriously. Then they wonder why hey,
when you see them, and they be like, oh, why
you didn't respect me or why are you talking to
me like that? Well, you know you don't treat yourself
like a woman, and you ain't treating yourself like a
police officer.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
The internal affairs investigation is still ongoing with.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
I feel like this guy should have got more than two.
Is this just something that's just on someone's ig story?
This does not sound like legitimate news. First of all,
that guy's talking about the diversity in his background is
helping him with this moment.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Look, the broadcasting is not like a good field to
get into right now.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
They just do a rock and whoever picked it up
got a microphone and did a news report.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So do you guys think I mean, it's a wild
thing to say if you're a cop, to say I'm
gonna be writing tickets because I didn't get what I
needed last night. That's kind of bad. Yeah, it's really
just trying to get her TikTok career going. Said, I
mean it's so funny. He's like, yeah, that's not helping
with the trust. I don't think that's the only thing
that's not helping. Trust. We have one that she has
(04:55):
not written any tickets so since since the video, So
she thought she's acting on her TikTok.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I think she was joking.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
And I personally, I enjoy the police force to have
a sense of humor.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I think it's good.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Back in the day they used to hand out Dallas
Cowboys cards to connect with the community.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
I think just some funny TikTok post. I think it's
great you can have jokes. But that's like, don't threaten
to write tickets because of.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It, you know, right, like you she's gonna get away
with this because she is a female.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Oh imagine this. I would be totally down for them
to cover. Let's get your standard imagination of a cop
that you got.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
The guy goes and he's got donuts, he's got the mustache,
just your standard TV cop, and then he is making
a TikTok video. I didn't get laid last night, so
everyone's getting a speeding ticket. That would not go over well,
he'd be fired on the spot. They're gonna let this
linger for a little bit because there's not enough people
are gonna take this serious.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
And they look at her and they're like, she deserves
to be cracked. I think Ben's got a good point,
and so that's different. The guy with the mustache doesn't
deserve as much as she does. She's yeah, look at that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You're not cracking that? Who's not? Yeah? What is the
point of you saying you wouldn't crack that? She doesn't
make anyone mad, you know. I deal with it.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Later.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I was talking to Christina.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Crack the blue bro yep, all right, there you have it,
say that there's the love shack, all right, cussing the
cowboys coming up at five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Coming up next, it's the Today game. Don't go anywhere.
That's next.
Welcome to the love Shack.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Baby Ben's getting ladies talking love life and a white Mercedes. David.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Let us be nice to you, oh advice, and.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
You welcome to the love Shack.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Lady life.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
You gets crazy, you need to Sexpert's roadhouse.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Let me handle the bad problems for we have quite
a story here out of Houston.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Jennifer Escalera is a police officer for Houston Harris County.
She posted a video on TikTok and she's in her
squad car. You know how they have those like little
laptops or they have a little like trey, you know,
in the in the cop.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Cars they look stuff up.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
So she run your plates.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
She's in her tactical gear and she's typing on her
you know, notebook or iPad or laptop or whatever. And
on the TikTok video, it just says on the text,
didn't get crack last night, So everyone is getting a ticket.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Oh cracked?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, getting cracked is a new slame turn for getting late.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Gotten smashed?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, yeah, getting cracked. So she didn't get cracked last night,
so everyone's getting a ticket.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
That's not smart.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Well, how do you say it's not smart for her
to not get cracked, or to give out all.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
The tickets for her to say that, because you can't
prove Jesus what type of a cracking candidate is she is?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
She's as good looking at this casket girl. I'll let
you no, no, nothing has.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Been well then, I think it's ridiculous what she's saying.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
But she is. She is good looking as someone that
would let their little kid go swimming with an octopus.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Looks at the subject of question.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
What are you talking about, dude? Somebody needs to get
to cracking unleast, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Dude?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Look at that? Let me say that you're not a
fan of that.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I don't like the idea that my ass could get kicked.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
What do you mean you think she's gonna beat you up?
Speaker 6 (02:07):
There's some guys listening here like, yeah, cop too that dude.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I think it's I can't figure out what it is
about you that is making you say you don't like that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You know what, man?
Speaker 5 (02:19):
If I was you, Kevin, I'd be willing to crack
while wearing that bulletproof vest.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Okay, well why am I involved?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Um?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
You're here one against the police. Me and Ben will
back the blue from behind. I think it's tapped the blue,
cracked the blue. I was surprised to see the public
reaction to this story. Oh didn't plug in? Hold on
what time it in?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Cracked in?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
There?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
There we go.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Now we will start the audio. You should do it
from the news in Houston.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
In a vibral video that has since been deleted, we
see a Precinct five constable deputy joining on a TikTok
trend and having some fun, but that could cause her to.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Lose her job.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
In the video, you can see the.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Deputy consist like you get fired.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Everybody talks weird.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
That could cause her to lose her job. In the video,
you can see the deputy taking some notes, but she
leaves her name visible to see.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I think it's real, inappropriate, disrespectful.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
It is very unprofessional, you know what I'm saying, Like
you shouldn't be doing nothing like that.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's unprofessional.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
You know, when you're a professional.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
You you talk a certain way, you carry yourself a certain.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Way when you're in your work clothes. That's what you
do outside of work, that's cool.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Does this make you like distrust the people that's supposed
to be serving and protecting this area.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I feel like they planning.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
No, you're just being chrouded, like y'all ain't you ain't
taking nothing seriously.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
You're gonna write me some tickets.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Because you ain't get crept. It's crazy posting videos like that,
you can't even take them seriously. Then they wonder why hey,
when you see them, and they be like, oh, why
you didn't respect me or why are you talking to
me like that? Well, you know you don't treat yourself
like a woman, and you ain't treating yourself like a
police officer.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
The internal affairs investigation is still ongoing with.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
I feel like this guy should have got more than two.
Is this just something that's just on someone's ig story?
This does not sound like legitimate news. First of all,
that guy's talking about the diversity in his background is
helping him with this moment.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Look, the broadcasting is not like a good field to
get into right now.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
They just do a rock and whoever picked it up
got a microphone and did a news report.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So do you guys think I mean, it's a wild
thing to say if you're a cop, to say I'm
gonna be writing tickets because I didn't get what I
needed last night. That's kind of bad. Yeah, it's really
just trying to get her TikTok career going. Said, I
mean it's so funny. He's like, yeah, that's not helping
with the trust. I don't think that's the only thing
that's not helping. Trust. We have one that she has
(04:55):
not written any tickets so since since the video, So
she thought she's acting on her TikTok.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I think she was joking.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
And I personally, I enjoy the police force to have
a sense of humor.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I think it's good.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Back in the day they used to hand out Dallas
Cowboys cards to connect with the community.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
I think just some funny TikTok post. I think it's
great you can have jokes. But that's like, don't threaten
to write tickets because of.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It, you know, right, like you she's gonna get away
with this because she is a female.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Oh imagine this. I would be totally down for them
to cover. Let's get your standard imagination of a cop
that you got.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
The guy goes and he's got donuts, he's got the mustache,
just your standard TV cop, and then he is making
a TikTok video. I didn't get laid last night, so
everyone's getting a speeding ticket. That would not go over well,
he'd be fired on the spot. They're gonna let this
linger for a little bit because there's not enough people
are gonna take this serious.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
And they look at her and they're like, she deserves
to be cracked. I think Ben's got a good point,
and so that's different. The guy with the mustache doesn't
deserve as much as she does. She's yeah, look at that.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
You're not cracking that? Who's not? Yeah? What is the
point of you saying you wouldn't crack that? She doesn't
make anyone mad, you know. I deal with it.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Later.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I was talking to Christina.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Crack the blue bro yep, all right, there you have it,
say that there's the love shack, all right, cussing the
cowboys coming up at five o'clock.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Coming up next, it's the Today game. Don't go anywhere.
That's next.
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