The Hollywood Reporter picked up on comments from Trevor Noah this week in which he addressed the way in which film and television productions portray police officers, and how these depictions may have a deleterious effect on the way the public views police officers.
On Thursday’s episode, Noah explained that for many people around the country, watching police shows on TV makes them perceive officers as “infallible.” Noah went on to say that much of his own perceptions are shaped by what’s on TV as well.
He shared a number of ways that television programming portrays police officers, especially in relation to how they violently treat their suspects.
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