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2020-06-06 -War on Police-

Washington Post: Let’s Cancel All The Cop Shows On TV

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Posted by Fred 2020-06-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Agreed.

They need to do more shows like "Batwoman".

I hear that's a huge success.

Posted by charger 2020-06-06 01:27|| 2020-06-06 01:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Bismark was right.

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-06-06 02:25|| 2020-06-06 02:25|| Front Page Top

#3 How about a SCOTUS interpretation that corporations are not covered by the 'free press' protection of the First Amendment? They seem OK with states banning semi-auto weapons.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-06 07:37|| 2020-06-06 07:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Nearly all of these shows follow the same format. Hero cop breaks the rules to bring in the bad guy, and all is forgiven. Not sure that's the right message to be sending.

Posted by Iblis 2020-06-06 10:17|| 2020-06-06 10:17|| Front Page Top

#5 ...and every episode presents the same grinding behavior and dialog.

"Send out an APB."
Because you're too stupid to follow protocols and do it yourself.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-06 10:31|| 2020-06-06 10:31|| Front Page Top

#6 If storytelling focused on less-dramatic but more-common crimes such as burglary and motor-vehicle theft, the stakes would shrink — along with the case-clearance rate.

And the ratings will shrink too.

Posted by Secret Master 2020-06-06 11:54|| 2020-06-06 11:54|| Front Page Top

#7 I kinda like Live PD though.

Posted by Chris 2020-06-06 12:07|| 2020-06-06 12:07|| Front Page Top

#8 After watching a few episodes of Cops on TV I noticed that a lot of times when cops stop black guys, the black guys freak out, run and resist arrest. Like, if they have a little marijuana in their pocket, they try to run away or just otherwise get all hinked up when they could have walked away freely if they had just remained cool. White guys tend to be passive around police, submit to frisking and being handcuffed. But I always thought it was the black guys who taught us white guys to be cool so it's kinda confusing. Maybe it's easier to be cool when there is no pressure.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-06-06 13:21|| 2020-06-06 13:21|| Front Page Top

#9 The original Hawaii Five-0 was more diverse than pretty much all cop shows up until the woke era. You got Linc on Mod Squad, yeah, sure, but McGarrett worked with and busted people of pretty much all races except Inuit, if I recall.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-06 13:53|| 2020-06-06 13:53|| Front Page Top

#10 What will happen is we'll see a few racist characters introduced or existing characters made racists so they can bash the police.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-06-06 14:06|| 2020-06-06 14:06|| Front Page Top

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