When you see Mendoza, Tell him I said, "See you in Hell"

So a few months ago I realized something; everyone that's ever named Mendoza in a movie is never a nice guy. He's always the ringleader of a Columbian Drug Cartel that kidnaps the hero's daughter and takes her back to his top secret Cocaine processing plant, holds a gun to her head, and then kicks the bucket just before he pulls the trigger.

I picked up on this useless tidbit (believe me this story has a point) while being forced to watch "West Wing" at a friend's house one night. I'm not a fan of any kind of drama TV shows, especially one's that highlight people doing work: ER, Las Vegas, West Wing, CSI, Law & Order, House, etc. I figure that I do enough/too much work per week as it is and I don't need to be spending my recreational hours watching someone else work. So, they had this character called Judge Mendoza, and he was actually not a bad guy; at least in that episode, he probably turned out to be some kind of drug-dealer sneaking crack to members of the Supreme Court in a later episode. It was while watching this show that I realized that Mendoza is not a nice name in movies.

"Damn you Mendozaaaaaa!!!!!!!"
"I'll get you for this Mendoza!!!!"
"It's that Fucking Mendoza, he's killing all our men!"
"Mendoza stole my stereo out of my car!"

All the above lines started going through my head when I had this epiphany. So now to the point of the story. It was Easter Sunday and I somehow decided that this would be related to whatever conversation that we were having and I brought up the fact that Mendoza's are badguys. My cousin and her fiancee agreed with the theory completely, and her fiancee who's an NYPD police officer decided to take it to work, claiming that he was going to start calling the suspects/perpetrators "mendoza's" and enlighten his coworkers about the theory.

So flash forward to this weekend, I meet up with them again. Apparently there's quite a few people using this codename now on the NYPD..."I'm in pursuit of a Mendoza." He even explained it to one of the Mendoza's that he busted (who was hispanic) and the guy agreed and laughed about it. I'm hoping that this term goes down in the book of cop lingo.