TV Police Under the Microscope: ‘We Need Different People Writing Different Cop Shows’
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variety.comWill 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.
at the hands of police officers, and the role that cop shows — both fictional and nonfictional — play in forming ideology and normalizing police brutality is under heightened scrutiny.Paramount Network recently canceled the long-running series “Cops” after more than 30 years and 33 seasons.
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