Do professors cal Police Department to make sure we did a ride along?

Yes. All of that stuff is public record, and if the professor uses this assignment regularly, he has relationships with a lot of people. In addition, lying about what happened probably violates your school's academic integrity code. Which means things like an F in the course and being booted from certain majors are possible outcomes.

I know you think you will make it sound right, but you don't know what you don't know. And something that might sound right for some anonymous cop somewhere might be clearly off if it involves Dolores, with whom the professor has done 4 ride-alongside and for whose youngest child the professor's church prayed when a hit-and-run driver left him, comatose, on the side of the road one day. The professor might not just ask Dolores about your ride-along, he might do it over drinks and listen while Dolores recounts the whole hilarious story of how you reacted to situations you hadn't experienced before.

I know part of you is whispering at you, saying there's no way you could ever get caught. There are ways, I promise you. If you gamble, you might get away with it. But if you gamble and lose, you will not be the first student to have come up with a 100% guaranteed undetectable way to cheat that was detected very easily.

Go talk to your professor about the missing information. The worst that can happen is a low grade on one assignment, which beats a lot of the possible consequences of lying. In addition, you'll still be able to think of yourself as a good student who behaves honorably.

Ride-alongs aren't even necessary any more because WE SEE what

cops do on VIDEOS! Body cam videos, dash cam videos, stationary

videos, CELL PHONE VIDEOS. On a ride-along they are at their best behavior.

You aren't going to see how they REALLY act when they have you in the back seat.

If it don't sound right they call

No.