The Week contest: Rat police

This week's question: Houston's mayor says that "drug-addicted rats" are scarfing piles of seized marijuana and magic mushrooms stored at the city's police headquarters. If a TV network were to make a reality show about the Houston Police Department's battle with these drug-chomping rodents, what would it be titled?
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THE WINNER: "Gnaw & Order SVU (Stoned Vermin Unit)"
Claudia Malone, Sellersville, Pennsylvania
SECOND PLACE: "The Mouse That Scored"
Erica Avery, Greenfield, Massachusetts
THIRD PLACE: "Squeaking Bad"
Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Massachusetts
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Drugrats"
Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Virginia
"Forget Saul, Better Call an Exterminator"
John R. Bregoli, Weymouth, Massachusetts
"The Frayed Wire"
Patrick Leal, San Jose, California
"Law & Order: Special Vermin Unit"
George Strong, Plano, Texas
"Houston Mice, Spice, and Vice Squad"
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Raticide: Life in The Sewer"
Bill Levine, Belmont, Massachusetts
"Law & Orkin"
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California
"The Secret Vice of Texas Mice"
Charles Gregory Houck, King George, Virginia
"Rat City and Blue"
Stuart Burkhoff, Great Neck, New York
"THCSI Houston"
Doug Lindberg, Bradenton, Florida
"Cat the Bounty Hunter"
Sellus Wilder, Frankfort, Kentucky
"The Real Mouse Dives of Houston"
Ellen Meshnick & Paul Immerman, Atlanta, Georgia
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