Regardless of how you feel about The Game, the Village Voice published a fascinating article about his arrest and the lengths to which the police may (or may not) go to make a high profile bust.

"Game is right in his assessment that the cops are following him''they are," says NYPD detective Derrick Parker, who founded the squad, formally known as the Rap Intelligence Unit, in the early 1990s, wrote a book about it (Notorious C.O.P.: The True Story of the NYPD Hip Hop Cop), and is now retired. "The reason being is, they don't want another rapper killed." Parker says there are now as many as 10 NYPD cops working full-time gathering intelligence and doing surveillance on rappers. No. 1 on their list, he says, is 50 Cent, followed by the Game. [Village Voice]

Is The Game trying to get a little publicity through paranoid speculation, or is he being targeted because of his chosen profession?