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TV Police Under the Microscope: ‘We Need Different People Writing Different Cop Shows’
Will Thorne Staff WriterThe cop show is almost as old as television itself. The earliest police dramas birthed the idea of a narrative in which good (police) and bad (criminal) were clearly defined.But fast-forward to the present and mass protests across the United States following the deaths of Black men and women including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Michael Brown Jr.