. Early Hollywood needed the help of law enforcement to cover up the misdeeds of stars and grant permits for filming in public spaces. As a result, the police became both the inspiration for shows and heavily involved in their messaging. Famously, the scripts for late 1960s series “Dragnet” were vetted by police before filming.
Decades of cop shows have coalesced into a pattern, particularly in network procedurals like “Law & Order,” “FBI” and “CSI.” Heroic cops, federal agents or forensic techs are the main characters, and each week they tackle a new case. The victims and suspects are, by definition, disposable guest stars whose names you can barely remember .
TNT’s “The Closer” saw Kyra Sedgwick’s deputy police chief Brenda Leigh Johnson bend the rules of Miranda rights to get her suspects to confess, while villainizing an Internal Affairs investigator. On CBS’s “Elementary,” “police consultants” Sherlock and Watson conduct warrantless searches and hand over fruit of the poisonous tree to detectives who make arrests using illegally obtained evidence.
Yup
Probably the same amount the interactive games play. Oh that’s right you guys refuse to believe violent games play any role in today’s culture.
Why should we cancel cop shows So you people are going to bow down because of one unfortunate incident? People of all races are killed everyday and we don’t hear about it because the Media has One-Sided thinking. Let’s have equality in reporting. AllLivesMatter
lol, the media narratives are becoming dangerous to our society
Yes, censorship is the answer to the country’s problems.
How about medical shows? Aren't most of them sponsored by insurance and drug companies?
What role does usa today play in racism and unpunished police brutality? Should usa today be banned?
Ditto for all TV shows, movies, music, etc.
Wipe cable and tv all together with this suggestion.
Should be cancel rap music and video games too? Congrats on the dumb article of the day award.
Oh give over...it's fiction!!!!!
Zero....it's Hollywood. If you have to base your life on a serial on TV you have serious issues.
So, don’t watch.
Then get rid of violent video games too
None. Only in your incendiary minds.
Only consequences will reform the police. Fire them for any misconduct and prosecute them for every law they break and make them civilly liable for their misconducts and crimes.That will straighten them.Make the chiefs financially liable for the conducts of their officers too
They don’t care to show the daily criminal conducts of the police. They are not going to regularly show the police is more murderous than any group of people in society. The police is useless unless they are held accountable for everything they do and say.
A central role..
The same role video games play: none.
Military too could be oppressive.Demonize it by all means too.
Leave 👏🏾Law & Order SVU👏🏾alone👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Colombo never used violence. He will annoy the criminals to submission.
Years ago conservatives tried to control video games and music with calls that it created violence, liberals scoffed. Now?
The best type of cop shows are honest ones cops are people who do a job and everyone knows that it is not easy Shows that twist them into monsters or super heroes are wrong and should dissolve Best show about cops Barney Miller
Until you care to publish the plight of the victim of murder you have no business accusing the police of brutality. You won't favor the victim of murder above the weak conscience of America.
People still watch tv?
Cancel SNL and the news, too, then.
🤣😂🤣Look at that... the media thinks they have control over your minds.
Good idea! Let's cancel every violent movie and TV show and then there will no longer be ANY violence anywhere! 🙄
According to Law and Order the NYC PD spends 90% of their time going after wealthy white murders and rapists vs reality where they spend 90% of their time harassing/murdering the poor and powerless for things like have a tiny amount of weed or selling loose cigarettes.
Since when are Hollywood movies and tv shows a realistic depiction of anything? 😅
No cause it has nothing to do with it
YES CANCEL PROPAGANDA PERIOD
That's not hard: none.
Holy hell. Lol man the media is trash
I think that’s going a bit over the top
There is no “institutional racism”, that’s unproven liberal BS to pander to blacks for votes. What “unpunished” police brutality What are the stats to back that statement?USA Today is another liberal rag with zero journalism credibility.
never really mattered Before .. its time to get back to everyday life .
A big one! Just like the US 'standard of beauty' People work really hard to make us feel less than - to make AMERICA hate again? The Pandemic of Covid-19 and the Pandemic of Systemic Racism, Bigotry and Marginalization! Pandemic SystemicRacism Bigotry Marginalization
Omg stop
Good point. It’s sometimes those shows that get someone interested in the career.
Oh please!! Hollyweirds are liberals using that platform to showcase their political views. It’s not reality or balanced in presenting both sides. This just demonstrates how far in the toilet it’s gotten.
No the crime dramas are the best shows on tv..The issue is the stereotypes of all people. Media plays the biggest roll in all of this..You hardly see the news post anything positive..So if the negative is all you see will end up with a pre-concieved notion of the person.
I disagree as least as it applies to Law and Order or Law & Order SVU, they show crooked cops pretty frequently AND I’ve learned from these shows the most devious people are private school rich white kids!
Télévision has always denied their responsibilities for their negative roles. They always return blames on parents. They are making money of our social ills.
American TV shows and Hollywood movies have made loads of $ based on portraying, even glorifying, violence & terrorism. It may be a good time for them to reflect on their influence!
Oh get the f*ck out of here
the dumbing down of America !! when is the majority going to speak up !! race separation is a must !!
WTF! Let’s Keep Focus on the “Real Life” Racism and Injustice...Do Better USA Today! This is not the Time for this Type of Ignorance! Folks, Make a Difference, Be The Difference and VOTE!
Well they’ve sure got a lot of people brainwashed into thinking cops are saviors and civil rights violations are okay. So stop the copaganda.
Stabler was always tuning people up.
These shows still have cops calmly talking down black suspects with lines like, 'it's not worth it, son' instead of the real life scenarios of shooting within 10 seconds of coming into contact with a black person.
Probably none it’s television. Just like a chef has days where they improperly cook the food or a surgeon messes up a surgery. It’s a big world and human error will always happen.
Lol
Funny you should ask...
No but enough with with the sterotypes where almost every POC non main character in TV is a gang member or drug dealer
Law & Order has been extremely fair in representing the police force both good and bad. It is a morality play. Sometimes shocks people into actually thinking.
these people are so far gone, it’s literally crazy.
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